Trade Iraq pullout for drought funding?

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald



Published Thursday | March 22, 2007
Trade Iraq pullout for drought funding?
BY JOSEPH MORTON
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU


WASHINGTON - It's right there for the taking: billions of dollars in federal drought relief for parched farmers and ranchers.

All you must do is agree to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq by September 2008 or sooner, and to fund a slew of other people's pet projects.

That's the deal being offered Nebraska congressmen this week.

A House vote is possible today on a $124 billion war funding bill that includes a timetable for withdrawing combat troops from Iraq.



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