And the War Goes On

With a backdrop of increased sectarian violence, the discovery of a missing US soldier's corpse and the president's promise of more troop casualties, Congress has approved $100 billion in funding for the Iraq war Bush is happy with the bill, but from her comments, it's clear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't: "This is like a fig leaf ".

With a backdrop of increased sectarian violence, the discovery of a missing U.S. soldier’s corpse and the president’s promise of more troop casualties, Congress has approved $100 billion in funding for the Iraq war. Bush is happy with the bill, but from her comments, it’s clear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn’t: “This is like a fig leaf, this is a token, this is a small step forward; instead we should have a giant step forward into a new direction.”

BBC:

Both houses of the US Congress have passed a bill allocating $100bn of new funding for the Iraq war.

The House of Representatives voted in favour of the bill, and the Senate approved it shortly afterwards.

Earlier President George W Bush praised the bill, a compromise measure between Republicans and Democrats without any timetable for a US troop withdrawal.

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