Bush asks Congress to swiftly fill Iraq war chest
AFP, May, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush urged Congress Saturday to approve a new and "responsible" funding bill for the Iraq war, warning of new violence if the money fails to materialize quickly.
"I call on Congress to work with my administration and quickly craft a responsible war spending bill," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "By working together, I believe we can pass a good bill quickly and give our troops the resources and flexibility they need."
On Tuesday, Bush vetoed a bill, which was to allocate 124 billion dollars in emergency funding for US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, because it contained a call for US combat troops to start coming home by October 1 and for most of them to be withdrawn by March 2008.
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