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President Bush Signs Long-Delayed GWOT Supplemental Spending Bill Into Law

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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford President Bush signed yesterday a long-delayed supplement spending bill covering $161.8 billion in war operations for fiscal year 2008 and part of FY '09--well into the next presidential administration. "I appreciate that Republicans and Democrats in Congress agreed to provide these vital funds without tying the hands of our commanders, and without an artificial timetable of withdrawal from Iraq," Bush said yesterday at the White House. The bill includes less war funding than the administration requested, but…

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