Democrat blames weak economy on Iraq war
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A US soldier takes a combat position as he patrols the Shakiriyah area in Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad in March 2008. US President George W. Bush on Thursday ordered an indefinite halt to US troop withdrawals from Iraq come July, warning that the strife-torn country remains too fragile five years after Baghdad fell.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)
AP - The growing cost to the United States of fighting the war in Iraq "is not only linked to our economic skid, but is a leading cause of it," a Democratic congressman said Saturday. |
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