Bush Says "I'll Veto Any War-Funding Bill Containing Timetable for Iraq Withdrawal

President Bush on Friday said, "If the Congress wants to test my will as to whether I'll accept a timetable for withdrawal, I won't accept one," Bush said during a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Camp David, Md.

The president stood by his position to try and allow time for his strategy to work on the ground in Iraq, before setting a timetable.

"If they want to try again that which I've said is unacceptable, of course I wont accept it. I hope it won't come to that."

Bush has said after he vetoes the bill, he wants congressional leaders to come to the White House to discuss a "way forward" in Iraq.

The White House called the bill, "dead before arrival." The Senate passed the measure 51-46, 80 days after Bush sent his budget request to Congress.

Ladies and Gentlemen, 80 days? Does this not show the liberals in Washington are indeed playing politics by taking 80 days to craft and vote on a bill? It also shows how the Democrats do not care , knowing that their bill is dead before arrival on the President's desk. Two Republicans , 48 Democrats and one independent voted in favor of this bill.

"We have carried forth the wishes of the American people," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. (D-NV) What wishes are those? Do the American people want the troops not to be funded? Do they want our troops to not have the proper equipment? Knowing this bill is dead before arrival is not what the American people want. This coming from a man who was a known Klansman. How the people in Nevada elected a racist is beyond me. I think it's time for a change.

Let's pass a bill that is acceptable to the President and stop playing politics. The bill was a waste of time knowing it would be vetoed before it was ever passed. The bottom line is the only people that it is hurting is our troops and it is pretty apparent the Democrats do not care by sending this bill to the President's desk.