US House approves 2008 troop withdrawal from Iraq
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to impose a Sept. 1, 2008, deadline for withdrawing all American combat troops from Iraq, prompting a quick veto promise from President George W. Bush. In a mostly partisan 218-212 vote, House Democrats succeeded in attaching the deadline to legislation spending more than $124 billion in emergency funds, most of it for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year. Full Story