WASHINGTON -- House Democrats have launched another challenge to President Bush's Iraq war strategy. They've announced they'll push for legislation that would set a timetable for pulling out U.S. combat troops.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the plan calls for the “strategic redeployment of U.S. combat troops'' by late 2008. She says the deadline would be added to legislation providing nearly $100 billion the Bush administration had requested for combat efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Congressman David Obey, who chairs the appropriations committee, says the move will bring an “orderly and responsible close'' to U.S. involvement in what he calls Iraq's “civil war.''

Clinton calls for GI ‘Bill of Rights'

Hillary Rodham Clinton is proposing a new GI “Bill of Rights,'' saying Democrats can better protect and provide for U.S. troops than the Republican administration has done.

She said she's putting together a package to make sure troops get enough equipment, health care and help for their families. It comes as Democrats in Congress try to cut back a troop surge ordered by President Bush. Republicans say it amounts to abandoning troops in the field.

Clinton's announcing her proposals in a speech in Washington to the Center for American Progress, a think tank run by former Clinton White House aide John Podesta.