Comment Of Sen. Patrick Leahy
On President Bush’s Veto Of Bill
That Includes Timetable For Withdrawal
Of U.S. Troops From Iraq
Tuesday, May 1, 2007

“The bill the President has vetoed would end his open-ended escalation that pins our troops down in the middle of Iraq’s civil war.  The bill he vetoed would counter the Bush Administration’s neglect of the National Guard’s needs by providing the extra $1 billion that I secured with Senator Bond for the Guard’s equipment backlogs, to improve their readiness for domestic emergencies.   

“With this veto the President has compounded his disastrous handling of this war.  Instead of telling our troops to police a widening civil war, we should begin bringing them home.” 

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