Today, President Bush vetoed a bill that would withdraw troops and withdraw all troops by October. "This is a prescription for chaos and confusion and we must not impose it on our troops," Bush said in a nationally broadcast statement from the White House. He said the bill would "mandate a rigid and artificial deadline" for troop pullouts, and "it makes no sense to tell the enemy when you plan to start withdrawing." He doesn't want to seem weak and make it look like all his efforts into the war were for nothing. He wants to be remembered for something, which is admirable, but this isn't something that he would be very proud of. House speaker Nancy Pelosi says that the president just wants a blank check and that he wants to be able to have complete control over one thing that he has let slip. For example, global warming....
Bush on Global Warming
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