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US House passes Iraq war budget (AFP)
Filed: May 24th 2007: US

US President George W. Bush speaks during a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a 120 billion dollar Iraq war budget, after Democrats reluctantly agreed to President George W. Bush's demands to strip it of troop withdrawal dates.(AFP/Jim Watson)AFP - The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a 120 billion dollar Iraq war budget, stripped of Democratic troop withdrawal timelines.

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