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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Bush Rejects Congress's bill to withdraw troops


Somebody get Bush out of office. Impeachment. Now.

Here's an extract:

President George W Bush has vetoed legislation to pull US troops out of Iraq in a showdown with Congress over whether the unpopular and costly war should end or escalate.

In only the second veto of his presidency, Bush today rejected legislation that would have required the first US combat troops to be withdrawn from Iraq by October 1 with a goal of a complete pullout six months later.

He vetoed the bill immediately on his return to the White House from a visit to MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, headquarters of US Central Command, which oversees military operations in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East.