>Washington Post - February 15, 2005
>President Requests More War Funding
>Money for Iraqi Forces Rises Sharply
>
>By Jonathan Weisman
>Washington Post Staff Writer
>
>President Bush asked Congress yesterday for $82 billion in emergency
>spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for the Indian
>Ocean tsunami, making good on a pledge to dramatically scale up
>efforts to train and equip Iraqi security forces ahead of an
>eventual U.S. withdrawal.
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