Condi to a begging for $$ from arab states for Iraq

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Democrats vow to resist troop escalation

By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
5 minutes ago


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq

......Other components of the president's plan include a bit over $1 billion to shore up Iraq's battered economy and create jobs and a call for friendly Mideast countries — some of which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is visiting starting Friday — to increase their aid to Iraq, said a second official, who also requested anonymity.

The president will ignore the recommendation of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group that he include Syria and Iran in an effort to staunch Iraqi bloodshed, the official said.

White House officials say they have new confidence in the promises from al-Maliki — made before, and never kept — that lead them to believe this effort is more likely to succeed than past troop increases.

"The president believes that the Iraqi forces aided by American forces will be able to clean out Baghdad and stabilize Baghdad and leave, as he put it, 'space' for a political reconciliation process to unify the country and stabilize Iraq," Rep. Robert Andrews (news, bio, voting record), D-N.J., said Tuesday after talking with Bush.

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1. if other countries have not antied up by now, I can not see them

doing it now. It is the bush war--the US war--the taxpayers war!!

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2. The Saudis sure in hell aren't going to pony up any money...

they have to save some up to fund the Sunni insurgency.