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Bush signs $100 billion Iraq funding bill
25 May 2007 23:40:20 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush signed a bill on Friday providing $100 billion to pay for the Iraq war, but congressional Democrats who failed to impose a troop pullout deadline said their fight was far from over.

Passage of the emergency spending legislation capped a four-month struggle between Bush and a Democratic-controlled Congress determined to force him to shift course in the unpopular war.
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U.S. Marine Gunnery Sergeant Angel Barcenas of Los Angeles, California, pulls a parachute as he runs on his artificial legs during a demonstration at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington June 1, 2007. Barcenas lost his legs to an improvised explosive device (IED) during a foot patrol in Iraq in July 2006.



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