From Al-Jazeera…

The US Senate has by a small margin voted to keep a measure tying funding for the war in Iraq to a timetable for withdrawing US troops.
Tuesday’s vote of 48 to 50 saw senators reject a Republican amendment that would have stripped language imposing a March 2008 deadline from an emergency funding bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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