Democrats Back Down On Iraq Timetable

This is being reported by the Washington Post:

President Bush and congressional leaders began negotiating a second
war funding bill yesterday, with Democrats offering the first major concession:
an agreement to drop their demand for a timeline to bring troops home from Iraq.
Democrats backed off after the House failed, on a vote of 222 to 203, to
override the president's veto of a $124 billion measure that would have required
U.S. forces to begin withdrawing as early as July. But party leaders made it
clear that the next bill will have to include language that influences war
policy. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) outlined a second measure
that would step up Iraqi accountability, "transition" the U.S. military role and
show "a reasonable way to end this war."

Whatever the "wording" of the new bill, it will be meaningless and face-saving for the Democrats. They will fund the troops. Everyone in America wants to end this war. It must be done, though where its Al Qaeda that retreats from Iraq, and not America.