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  Congress isn't micromanaging war, Braley says.
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News DateThursday, April 5, 2007 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionCongress isn't micromanaging war, Braley says

By Pat Kinney | Wednesday, April 04, 2007

(Updated: 12:02 p.m.) WATERLOO — Congress isn’t trying to usurp President Bush’s role as commander in chief regarding Iraq, U.S. Rep Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, said.

“I can tell you emphatically that we are not trying to micromanage this war,” Braley said in a meeting with the Waterloo Courier’s editorial board Tuesday.

The president renewed veto threats Tuesday on both a Senate-passed bill calling for most U.S. combat troops to be out of Iraq by March 31, 2008, and an even stronger House-passed bill demanding a September 2008 withdrawal. He said both bills “undercut the troops.” Bush bluntly said Congress could not override such a veto.

If a bill “has artificial timetables for withdrawal, or cuts off funding for our troops, or tells our generals how to run a war, I’ll veto it,” Bush said.

Braley indicated the timetables in the House bill are not arbitrary but came from the president himself.

“We have adopted the very same benchmarks the president set out in his speech to the American people Jan. 10,” Braley said. “He’s just not putting any teeth behind his benchmarks."
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