USNews: GOP insiders predict that Democrats and Bush will find a compromise on the Iraq funding

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Avoiding a Duel Over Iraq War Funding

Some Republican strategists with close ties to Congress predict that Democrats and Bush will find a compromise on the Iraq funding standoff sooner rather than later. One possible outcome: The White House accepts some form of nonbinding "benchmarks" for success in Iraq as part of legislation to increase supplemental funding for the war, while at the same time the Democrats delete a mandatory-withdrawal timetable from the funding bill. "When the president says, 'Send me a bill to support the troops,' he has a lot more impact than the Democratic leaders do, because they have so many voices," says a GOP insider. "But in the end, there's got to be a deal." One problem: Antiwar Democrats could prove to be just as inflexible as Bush.