Pelosi's gamble on Iraq war bill pays off
The House speaker's triumph was anything but assured when she announced the measure. Antiwar Democrats wanted an earlier deadline for withdrawal.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faced an angry group of liberal lawmakers when she stepped into her red-walled Capitol office on the afternoon of March 8.
That morning, the San Francisco Democrat had announced plans to push legislation requiring President Bush to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of August 2008 -- at the latest.
But the antiwar members of her party who gathered in the large conference room overlooking the National Mall ...
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