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Democrats and the Iraq Drawdown

November 08, 2007 12:13 PM

ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf blogs they're plotting another vote:

When Democrats attached language to mandate a withdrawal from Iraq to the supplemental war funding bill for this past fiscal year, President Bush vetoed it. And Democrats lacked the vote to override his veto.

Though there has not been an election between then and now to drastically change the number of votes in the House or Senate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that her chamber will vote as early as Friday a new supplemental war funding bill essentially written using the same language.

The President has asked for nearly $200 billion to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But Pelosi said Congress will only give him a quarter of that -- $50 billion. That funding, she said, Bush would have to use to withdraw combat troops by the end of 2008 with the token force left behind focused on training Iraqis forces, tracking down terrorists, and securing Iraq's borders.

Pelosi said it is important for congressional Democrats to reassert their platform for a change in direction in Iraq.

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