(Reuters) - WASHINGTON, May 22 - President George W. Bush won
a battle over nearly $100 billion to fund the Iraq war as
congressional Democrats on Tuesday abandoned troop withdrawal
efforts for now but pledged to try again in July.
Instead of setting schedules for withdrawing U.S. troops,
it appeared the Democratic-run Congress and the Republican
White House agreed for the first time to include conditions
prodding Baghdad to make better progress toward quelling
violence or risk losing some U.S. reconstruction aid.
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a battle over nearly $100 billion to fund the Iraq war as
congressional Democrats on Tuesday abandoned troop withdrawal
efforts for now but pledged to try again in July.
Instead of setting schedules for withdrawing U.S. troops,
it appeared the Democratic-run Congress and the Republican
White House agreed for the first time to include conditions
prodding Baghdad to make better progress toward quelling
violence or risk losing some U.S. reconstruction aid.
Read more at Reuters.com Bonds News
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