Private WH Meeting: GOP Tells Bush They'll Desert Him On Iraq

The New York Times CARL HULSE and JEFF ZELENY May 9, 2007 08:55 PM
Moderate Republicans gave President Bush a blunt warning on his Iraq policy at a private White House meeting this week, telling the president that conditions needed to improve markedly by fall or more Republicans would desert him on the war.
The White House session demonstrated the grave unease many Republicans are feeling about the war, even as they continue to stand with the president against Democratic efforts to force a withdrawal of forces through a spending measure that has been a flash point for weeks.
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