| The US House of Representatives yesterday voted to impose a September 1, 2008, deadline for withdrawing all American combat troops from Iraq, prompting a quick veto promise from President George W. Bush. In a mostly partisan 218-212 vote, House Democrats succeeded in attaching the deadline to legislation authorizing more than $124 billion (Dh456 billion) in emergency funds, mostly for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year. The narrow margin of the vote was far short of what Democrats would need to override any presidential veto |