The House today narrowly passed a $124.3 billion war supplemental that would set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

The vote was 218-212, with one member voting present.

Only two Republicans voted for the bill — Wayne T. Gilchrest of Maryland and Walter B. Jones of North Carolina.

Pete Stark, D-Calif., voted present.

Fourteen Democrats voted against the bill, including liberal lawmakers who have said the bill did not go far enough in bringing an end to the war quickly, and others who thought the Iraq conditions were too restrictive.

Prior to passage, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. — whose husband was sitting in the gallery watching the vote — said, “Today the Congress has an historic opportunity to vote to end the war in Iraq.”

The bill (HR 1591) includes funding for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus billions of dollars of non-war spending. It would require the withdrawal of all but a vestige of the current U.S. force in Iraq by 2008. It also would set minimum readiness standards for forces before they deployed, although the president could waive the requirement.