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House passes Iraq funds with 2008 withdrawal goal (Reuters)
Filed: April 27th 2007: US

A U.S. soldier keeps a lookout after his patrol stopped to check a vehicle in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, April 25, 2007. President George W. Bush pledged on Friday to veto legislation that includes a timetable for pulling U.S. troops from Iraq but Democrats urged him to 'heed the call of the American people' and sign it. (Bob Strong/Reuters)Reuters - Defying President George W. Bush's
veto threat, the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved
a bill providing new war funds while setting a timeline for the
withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by March 31 next
year.

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