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Plea for Iraq funds goes to Hill
Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 | By Stephen Dinan

Posted on 09/22/2003 10:44:35 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:08:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

American troops in Iraq will continue to be in danger if Congress does not quickly pass the president's $87 billion emergency funding request, the American administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, told senators yesterday.

"Some Iraqis are beginning to regard us as occupiers and not as liberators. Some of this is inevitable, but faster progress on reconstruction will help," Mr. Bremer told the Senate Appropriations Committee.


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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: funding; rebuildingiraq; spending; usdollars
Tuesday, September 23, 2003

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