Nevada Senator, President Square Off Over Iraq
April 3, 2007 11:47 PM EDT
April 3, 2007 11:47 PM EDT
The latest volley of harsh words from Senator Harry Reid about the war in Iraq came from a National Guard training center in Las Vegas.
President George Bush is making it clear to senators that any troop funding bill with a withdrawal date would not become law.
CBS News: Bush, Dems Spar Over Iraq Funding
Nevada senator Harry Reid is in the middle of an increasingly nasty battle over the war in Iraq. Both he and President Bush are blaming the other for the standoff over funding the effort.
Senator Reid and democrats are taking a tougher tack on a timetable for withdrawal. The president is refusing to accept a date.
The latest volley of harsh words from Senator Harry Reid about the war in Iraq came from a National Guard training center in Las Vegas. The democrats and some republicans want a hard deadline to pull American troops out of the country.
The president says American troops should stay until the war is won. President George Bush is making it clear to senators that any troop funding bill with a withdrawal date would not become law.
"They need to come off their vacation, get a bill to my desk and if it's got strings and mandates and withdrawals and pork, I'll veto it. Then we can get down to business," said the president.
The senate is considering a supplemental funding bill for the war in Iraq that includes a mandate for troop re-deployment out of Iraq.
As Nevada Senator Harry Reid toured a new National Guard complex in Las Vegas, he says the president has been uncompromising and that's the reason the war has blown up in our face.
"The war has been a failure," said Reid. "There is chaos now. Whenever that day comes that our troops come out, it will be chaos. It's time for the Iraqis to resolve their own differences."
As Senate majority leader, Reid sets the agenda for his branch of congress. He also decides what bills are voted on. He says the troop supplemental funding bill will pass and the president must work with congress to change his failed policy.
"He should become in tune with the fact that he is President of the United States, not King of the United States," said Reid. "He has another branch of government, namely the legislative branch of government that he has to deal with."
President Bush countered that there will be consequences for sending a funding bill to his desk that he will veto.
"Congress's failure to fund our troops on the front lines will mean that some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the front lines," said President Bush.
Each side is dug in. Both the president and Senator Reid promise they will give troops what they need as the war of words rages on.
President Bush says without the supplemental funding passed now, the troops will run out of money. Senator Reid says his own generals and an independent accounting office show the money running out in July.
As the debate continues, there are signs the military is spread thin. The Pentagon will send two large army units back to Iraq without a year's rest at home.
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