Free Republic

<p>Secretary of State Colin Powell, ready to attend a donors' conference for Iraq, said Sunday the United States will "take as much money as we can get" to cover postwar rebuilding costs.</p> <p>He said last week's unanimous U.N. Security Council vote on a U.S.-sponsored resolution on Iraq should help.</p>

<p>Deadly ambush teams struck U.S. Army targets from west to north in the arc of resistance around Baghdad, and the interim Iraqi leader called Sunday for an immediate mobilization of the old Iraqi army to help the harried Americans.</p> <p>The United States would "speed the process of relieving the burden on its troops" by recalling the disbanded Iraqi military, said Iyad Allawi, current president of the Iraqi Governing Council. The idea got a cool reception, however, from Baghdad's U.S.-led occupation authorities.</p>