Obama: Dems lack votes for timetable

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Obama: Dems lack votes for timetable

By MIKE GLOVER 19 minutes ago

MAQUOKETA, Iowa - Despite the Iraq war's unpopularity, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that Congress lacks the votes to force a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops and will focus instead on putting a ceiling on the number deployed.

"One way of ending the war would be setting a timetable. We're about 15 votes short. Right now it doesn't look like we're going to get that many votes," Obama said, referring to the number needed to override an expected veto by President Bush...........

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