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Bush vetoes war-funding bill with withdrawal timetable
POSTED: 7:39 p.m. EDT, May 1, 2007
Story Highlights
‧ NEW: Pelosi says president won't get "blank check" from Congress
‧ President Bush vetoes $124 billion war spending measure
‧ Bill includes timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops
‧ Veto comes on 4th anniversary of aircraft-carrier speech
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Four years to the day after standing on the deck of an
aircraft carrier and declaring "major combat operations" in Iraq were over,
President Bush on Tuesday vetoed a war-spending bill that calls for the start
of a withdrawal of American combat troops from the conflict.
"It makes no sense to tell the enemy when you plan to start withdrawing. All
the terrorists would have to do is mark their calendars. ... Setting a
deadline for withdrawal is setting a date for failure, and that would be
irresponsible," Bush said in a televised address after the veto.
"I recognize that many Democrats saw this bill as an opportunity to make a
political statement about their opposition to the war," Bush said. "They've
sent their message, and now it is time to put politics behind us and support
our troops with the funds they need."
The president invited the congressional leadership to the White House on
Wednesday to discuss a compromise.
After the speech, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said the ball
was now in Bush's court.
"Now he has an obligation to explain his plan to responsibly end this war,"
Reid said.
"If the president thinks (that) by vetoing this bill he'll stop us from
working to change the direction of the war in Iraq, he is mistaken," Reid
added.
Standing beside Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said: "The
president wants a blank check. The Congress is not going to give it to him."
Both Democratic leaders said they would discuss a compromise.
"We look forward to working with the president to find common ground," Pelosi
said. "But there is great distance between us right now."
Before sending the bill to the president Tuesday afternoon, Democratic
congressional leaders urged Bush to sign the bill and begin winding down the
war.
"A veto means denying our troops the resources and the strategy they need,"
Reid said earlier in the day. "After more than four years of a failed policy,
it's time for Iraq to take responsibility for its own future."
The spending bill, which Congress passed last week, funds military operations
in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it also calls for the withdrawal of U.S. troops
beginning in October, with the goal of getting all U.S. combat forces out of
Iraq by the end of March 2008.
Administration officials have said the money is urgently needed -- and that
Democrats would be to blame for any hardships suffered by U.S. troops and
their families. But the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service has
concluded that the Pentagon could wage war through July without additional
funding.
Bush and his Republican allies in Congress call the withdrawal timetable
contained in the bill an admission of defeat.
Bush declared an end to "major combat" in Iraq in a May 1, 2003, speech from
the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. However, U.S. troops
have been battling an ongoing insurgency since then, and more than 3,300
Americans have died in Iraq since that address.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino accused congressional Democrats of "a
trumped-up political stunt" by sending the bill to the president on the
anniversary of his speech.
Bush: Failure 'unacceptable to the civilized world'
The president returned to Washington on Tuesday afternoon after a visit to
U.S. Central Command headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base, outside Tampa,
Florida.
He told American and allied military officers there that a U.S. failure in
the four-year-old war "should be unacceptable to the civilized world."
Bush said the current push to pacify Baghdad and the western province of
Anbar has produced progress, but will need several months to succeed.
He said the United States and its allies were faced with a choice at the end
of 2006 -- tamp down the wave of sectarian killings that followed the
February 2006 bombing of the al-Askariya Mosque in Samarra, a revered Shiite
Muslim shrine, or withdraw.
"Withdrawal would have increased the probability that coalition troops would
be forced to return to Iraq one day and confront an enemy that is even more
dangerous," Bush said. "Failure in Iraq should be unacceptable to the
civilized world. The risks are enormous."
The war is now widely unpopular at home, with 32 percent of Americans in a
recent CNN poll supporting the conflict and 60 percent siding with Congress
on the issue.
The veto is the second of Bush's presidency. The first, in July 2006, killed
a bill that would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem-cell
research.
New bill in the works
A compromise bill being worked on would strip out the troop removal language
and replace it with a series of benchmarks to measure the progress of the
Iraqi government.
The benchmarks would include passing laws related to the sharing of oil
revenue and national reconciliation and reducing sectarian violence --
benchmarks that Bush himself has publicly pressed the Iraqis to meet.
However, the big question facing lawmakers and the White House is what
happens if those benchmarks aren't met.
Many Democrats and some Republicans support setting out consequences, but the
White House opposes the idea, which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said
Sunday would "tie our own hands" and reduce the United States' "flexibility"
in Iraq.
A senior Republican lawmaker, working behind the scenes with senators from
both parties, has suggested a possible way to bridge that gap -- requiring
troops to be withdrawn if the benchmarks aren't met but allowing the
president to waive that requirement if he chooses.
From: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/01/congress.iraq/index.html
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Bush vetoes Iraq withdrawal bill
US President George W Bush has vetoed a Congressional bill that would have
linked war funding to a timetable for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.
Speaking in Washington after signing the veto, Mr Bush said setting a
deadline for withdrawal would be "setting a date for failure" in Iraq.
He said the funding was needed to give time for the new strategy of a surge
of reinforcements in Baghdad to succeed.
Mr Bush said he would seek a compromise with Congressional leaders.
It is only the second time since taking office that Mr Bush has used the
presidential veto.
Earlier on Tuesday, leaders of the Democrat-controlled US Congress signed the
controversial bill agreeing to $100bn (￡50bn) in further funding on
condition US combat troops begin to withdraw this year.
Mr Bush criticised the bill, saying it "substitutes the opinions of
politicians for the judgement of our military commanders.
"I believe setting a deadline for a withdrawal would demoralise the Iraqi
people, would encourage killers across the broader Middle East, and send a
signal that America will not keep its commitments," he said in a televised
speech.
Compromise talks
The veto is the latest stage in Mr Bush's clash with Congress over the
conduct of the Iraq war.
Reacting to the veto, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the bill
reflected the wishes of Americans to have benchmarks for what is happening in
Iraq.
"We had hoped that the president would have treated it with the respect that
bipartisan legislation supported overwhelmingly by the American people
deserved.
"The president wants a blank cheque; the Congress is not going to give it to
him," she said.
The Senate last week voted 51 to 46 in favour of the legislation, which said
the pull-out must start by 1 October and sets a target of completion by 31
March 2008.
Mr Bush will now meet congressional leaders on Wednesday to try to reach a
compromise on a revised funding bill for US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Democrats acknowledge they will eventually have to soften their bill as
they cannot risk being accused of undercutting the troops during wartime,
says the BBC's James Westhead in Washington.
Revised legislation would have to be agreed by both the House and the Senate
before being presented to him again.
'Publicity stunt'
Tuesday was the fourth anniversary of a speech in which Mr Bush declared
major combat operations in Iraq over, standing beneath a banner proclaiming
"mission accomplished".
Speaking before the signing of the bill, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino
accused the Democrats of cynically delaying the move so it would coincide
with the anniversary for political gain.
"It's very disturbing to think that they possibly held up this money for the
troops and the troops' families and the resources they need to try some PR
stunt on this day," Ms Perino said.
Mr Bush is committed to his "surge" strategy, under which thousands of extra
US troops are being poured into Baghdad.
The top US general in Iraq, David Petraeus, has said reducing forces could
lead to increased violence.
From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6613141.stm
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