Debate grows over Guantanamo, Iraq

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Democrats, Republicans sharply divided



<snip> When a reporter asked Pelosi Tuesday whether the House would some day get to a point where it would vote to cut off funding for military operations in Iraq, she replied, “The public will get there first. Their approval of this war is down to 37 percent in today’s poll; in March, it was 47 percent to 47 percent."

Pelosi called the new polling data "a drastic change. The more people who die, the less worth it I think the American people will deem it.”

Pelosi predicts Bush will withdraw troops
Later she added, “I think the president is going to bring them home. Thirty-seven percent approval in this country for our troops fighting a war? The president is going to bring them home. We want to know the standards that he is using, so that when they come home, our country is safer. What is going to be left there (in Iraq)?”

Pelosi last week called Bush's Iraq policy “a grotesque mistake” and she reaffirmed that comment Tuesday. <snip>

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