America’s deepening divisions over the war in Iraq were put on show on Wednesday as an embattled President George W. Bush defended his decision to send more troops and insisted he would veto any bill from Congress that set a timetable for US withdrawal.
Mr. Bush drew cheers at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association when he derided Democrats for inserting million of dollars of requests for “tree assistance”, expense accounts and visits to the Capitol into an emergency war spending bill, as well as deadlines for pulling out of Iraq. Read it here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/a51df0c2-dd51-11db-8d42-000b5df10621,dwp_uuid=5aedc804-2f7b-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8.html