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House votes for Iraq war funding, timetable for withdrawal

Published 03/24/07

WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives voted yesterday for the first time to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by Aug. 31, 2008, and sooner if Iraq's government fails to meet certain benchmarks for progress.

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The 218-212 vote split largely along party lines, with 216 Democrats and two Republicans - including Rep. Wayne Gilchrist, R-Kent - voting for it, and 198 Republicans and 14 Democrats against it.

The House vote reflected the American public's growing discontent with the Iraq war and President Bush's handling of it as the war enters its fifth year, and after some 3,232 U.S. deaths there. The same current helped...

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