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afpBush should shed 'tin ear' on Iraq: top Democrat
by Jitendra Joshi 43 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
President George W. Bush has turned a "tin ear" to intense criticism over
Iraq and should compromise with Democrats on a new war funding bill, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) said.
But Republicans said that a Democratic drive to include a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq as part of new funding for US troops amounted to "surrender."
Pelosi, the country's top Democrat, said in an ABC News interview broadcast Sunday that a funding bill would be submitted to Bush by next weekend, when Congress breaks up for the Memorial Day holiday.
She said Democrats had forged a bipartisan consensus with Bush on issues like trade and immigration since they regained control of Congress in November.
"But when it comes to the war in Iraq, the president has a tin ear. He just cannot hear, except that which he wants to hear on it," Pelosi said.
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