Bush Vetoes Troop Withdrawal Bill
munaeem | 02 May, 2007 02:44
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President Bush vetoed legislation to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq Tuesday night.
In vetoing a $124 billion (62 billion pounds) bill to fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush said he was stopping legislation that "substitutes the opinions of politicians for the judgement of our military commanders."
Associated Press Writers , ANNE FLAHERTY and JENNIFER LOVEN commented :
Democrats accused Bush of ignoring Americans' desire to stop the war, which has claimed the lives of more than 3,350 members of the military.
Pelosi and Reid lamented on president's action.
Senator Reid said :
Nearly $100 billion of the $124 billion bill would fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year. The rest would fund domestic projects Bush claims are either wasteful or not urgent, ranging from health care for poor children and farm aid to rebuilding southern states hit by 2005 hurricanes and increasing the minimum wage.
In vetoing a $124 billion (62 billion pounds) bill to fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush said he was stopping legislation that "substitutes the opinions of politicians for the judgement of our military commanders."
Associated Press Writers , ANNE FLAHERTY and JENNIFER LOVEN commented :
"It was a day of high political drama, falling on the fourth anniversary of Bush's ``Mission Accomplished'' speech declaring that major combat operations had ended in Iraq."
Democrats accused Bush of ignoring Americans' desire to stop the war, which has claimed the lives of more than 3,350 members of the military.
Pelosi and Reid lamented on president's action.
Senator Reid said :
"The president may be content with keeping our troops mired in the middle of an open-ended civil war, but we're not – and neither are most Americans.
The president refused to sign this bill. That's his right, but now he has an obligation to explain his plan to responsibly end this war."
Pelosi commented :The president refused to sign this bill. That's his right, but now he has an obligation to explain his plan to responsibly end this war."
"Earlier today the leader and I sent to the president a bill that made a strong commitment to support our men and women in uniform and a strong commitment to honor our promises to our veterans.
It was a bill that honored and respected the wishes of the American people to have benchmarks, to have guidelines, to have standards for what is happening in Iraq, again, out of respect for the wishes of the American people."
It was a bill that honored and respected the wishes of the American people to have benchmarks, to have guidelines, to have standards for what is happening in Iraq, again, out of respect for the wishes of the American people."
We had hoped that the president would have treated it with the respect that a bipartisan legislation, supported overwhelmingly by the American people, deserved.
Instead, the president vetoed the bill outright, and, frankly, misrepresented what this legislation does. "
Nearly $100 billion of the $124 billion bill would fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year. The rest would fund domestic projects Bush claims are either wasteful or not urgent, ranging from health care for poor children and farm aid to rebuilding southern states hit by 2005 hurricanes and increasing the minimum wage.
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