Congress panel backs Iraq pullout

[banana republican]

A Democrat-led congressional panel has approved a war-funding bill that sets a tentative March 31, 2008 deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq despite a promised veto by the president.

The fight in Washington escalated as nine US soldiers were killed and 20 wounded on Monday in a suicide car bombing northeast of Baghdad, the Pentagon said.

The bill will require troops to start withdrawing by October 1 if the president cannot show by then that Iraq is stabilising. Congress will vote on the $100bn legislation this week.


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F677AA94-F67B-46BD-A0DC-A4F4F08DD965.htm

[BeFree]

1. Well

If I was an Iraqi person at home in Iraq and I read this, I might begin to have hope that one day the invaders were actually going to LEAVE my country and it would bring me great joy.

The very idea that some officials in the US were making plans to get the HELL out of my country would give me great hope.

If I was an Iraqi person at home in Iraq.