White House On Iraq: Bush Way Or The Highway

AP ANNE FLAHERTY May 18, 2007 01:16 PM
Democratic congressional leaders on Friday offered their first major concessions in a fight withPresident Bush over a spending bill for Iraq, but the White House turned them down.
In a closed-door meeting with Bush's top aides on Capitol Hill, Democrats said they'd strip billions of dollars in domestic spending out of a war spending that Bush opposed if the president would accept a timetable to pull combat troops out of Iraq. As part of the deal, Democrats said they would allow the president to waive compliance with a deadline for troop withdrawals.
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