Reid proposes cutting Iraq war funds

    WASHINGTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Democratic Senator Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, proposed on Monday cutting off funds for the Iraq war if the proposal to set a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq was rejected by President George W. Bush.

    Reid said if Bush rejects the legislation with a pullout deadline, he would join forces with Democratic Senator Russ Feingold, who has called to end the war by denying funding for it.  Full story

President George W. Bush speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, April 3, 2007. He said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Damascus Syria "does not work" to change Syria's stance on issues in the Middle East.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

U.S. military "surge" in Iraq to maintain till August

    WASHINGTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Defense Department said Monday that the American military "surge" in Iraq to help quell sectarian violence in the war-torn country would maintain until August this year.

    The U.S. military was maintaining a troop level of 20 combat brigades in Iraq, and with additional troops rotating into Iraq, the buildup would continue at that level through August 2007, said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman.  Full story

U.S. Senate passes Iraq withdrawal bill

    WASHINGTON, March 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would require President George W. Bush to bring all combat troops home from Iraq within a year.

    On a 51-to-47 vote, Democrats narrowly pushed through the 122-billion-U.S. dollar war funding bill, which includes a timeline to pull out all U.S. combat troops by March 31, 2008. Full story

Poll: Most Americans support Iraq withdrawal timeline

    WASHINGTON, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Most Americans support the U.S. House provision setting a timetable that calls for most U.S. troops to be out of Iraq by September 2008, said a survey released on Wednesday.

    According to the CBS News poll, 59 percent of those surveyed favored the provision while 37 percent opposed it. Full story