Senate Revives Troop Withdrawal Plan
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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats yesterday revived legislation urging President Bush to bring troops home from Iraq in a year, attaching the plan to a $122 billion measure needed to fund the war.
The move puts Democrats on track for another confrontation with Mr. Bush over the increasingly unpopular war and with Republicans, who are expected to try to block the measure.
House Democratic leaders are pushing a similar measure that would require that troops leave by the fall of 2008. Party officials predicted the House would pass it tomorrow by a razor-thin margin.
The measure would provide nearly $97 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and billions more in domestic aid and emergency relief programs. It would require that Mr. Bush begin bringing home some troops within four months of the bill’s passage, setting a nonbinding goal of having all U.S.combat troops out of Iraq by March 31, 2008.
