Thursday, May 24, 2007

Democrats blink first in battle to force US Iraq withdrawal

By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
Published: 24 May 2007

Divided Democrats have dropped a planned timetable for a US troop withdrawal from a new Iraq funding bill that President Bush had vowed to veto. But the legislation, to be sent to George Bush tomorrow, probably only postpones until September the moment of political reckoning on an ever more unpopular war, as the administration itself tries to plot a new course. continue...

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