House: Bush won´t get "blank check" on war funding

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Source: CCTV.com | 05-11-2007 10:23

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates(L) listens as US President George W. Bush makes remarks after attending Department of Defense briefings at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. The US House of Representatives Thursday was to vote on limiting Iraq war funding to just a few months, prompting Bush to threaten to veto a bill he derided as "haphazard and piecemeal."(AFP/Jim Watson)

US President George W. Bush is still fighting a war of words with the Democrats. This, over a funding bill for Iraq that includes a withdrawal timetable of US troops.

On Thursday, Bush lashed out at plans for partial war funding while beginning the pullout. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the President won't get, what she calls, a blank check.

Bush said, "My message to the members of the Congress is, whatever your beliefs may be, let's make sure our troops get funded, and let's make sure politicians don't tell our commanders how to conduct operations; let's don't hamstring our people in the field."

Pelosi said, "The legislation that we are putting forth on the floor today gives the president the money that he needs for the next few months to engage in the war in Iraq but it has accountability and that is something the President has always resisted and Democrats are not going to give the President a blank check for a war without end. What we want to do is go to the conference and negotiate with the Senate and with the White House on legislation to bring this war to an end."

Editor:Du Xiaodan