(CNSNews.com) - An emergency war funding bill that includes a troop withdrawal date will arrive at the White House on Tuesday. President Bush says he'll veto it because it includes a withdrawal deadline, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "strongly encouraged" the president to sign it.

Reid on Monday said the bill "makes our country more secure by charting a new course in Iraq so that we can return our focus to the global challenges that lie ahead."

The Nevada Democrat called it a "good and responsible bill" that will "begin the long process of leading us out of a war that has cost us so many American lives and so much treasure."

Reid and other Democrats say the bill represents the will of the Congress as well as the will of the American people. The bill calls for the phased redeployment of U.S. troops beginning no later than October 1, 2007 and it sets a goal of removing all combat forces by April 1, 2008.

Reid noted that the U.S. death toll in Iraq exceeds 100 for the month of April -- making April the deadliest month of the year and one of the deadliest of the entire war. " If the president wonders why the American people have lost patience, it is because the news out of Iraq grows worse by the day," Reid said.

"We ask him again to listen to the American people and his own military experts. We ask that he finally summon the courage to admit his mistakes and take the steps we propose to begin to heal the grave wounds he has caused.

"This bill gives him a path forward, Reid said. "We ask him to follow it."

President Bush on Monday repeated his opposition to the bill, mainly because it includes "artificial timetables for withdrawal."

He accused Democrats of seeking to impose their own judgment on military commanders in the field; and he complained that the bill includes domestic spending that's unrelated to the war.

It's no coincidence that the war funding bill is arriving at the White House four years to the day after President Bush declared an end to "major combat operations in Iraq -- under a "Mission Accomplished" sign.

That message has returned to haunt him year after year.

President Bush says he is looking forward to working with both Republicans and Democrats to produce a bill that provides war funding without "artificial timetables."

He has invited congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday to discuss a war-funding bill he can sign.