为了伊战继续讨钱【沪江标准VOA12-18】
Bush Wants Money for War in Iraq
In his weekly radio address, President Bush says time is running out for Congress to fund troops in Iraq.
The Senate Friday authorized nearly $700 billion in military spending for 2008, including nearly $200 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Congress authorizing money is not the same as spending it.
That is expected to happen in the coming week when some of the president's request for Iraq is likely to be attached to a more than $500 billion government-wide spending bill in the Senate.
This will allow Democrats to finish much of the budget process before the end of the calendar year.
But the President and his Republican allies will have succeeded once again in blocking Democrats from making more money for the war conditional on a timetable for troop withdrawal.
In an interview on public television on Thursday, the speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, acknowledged that her party has not been able to attach a timetable for withdrawal.
She said the Democrats can only do so much and that the Presidential election in November 2008 will make all the difference on the war.
参考译文：
在总统的每周电台讲话中，布什总统说国会筹集驻伊军队资金的时间已经不多了。
周五，参议院已批准7000亿美元用于军队开支，这包括在伊拉克战争和阿富汗战争中近2000亿的花费。但是，国会批准的军费并不等同于可以使用的金钱。
预计将在下周，参议院要求增加5000亿用于政府扩大开支的议案可能附上总统的提出的某些关于伊战的要求。
这将容许民主党在自然年年底前完成大多数的预算计划。
但是总统和共和党同盟又一次成功的阻止民主党要求布什确定撤军时间，才答应增加军费预算的做法。
在周四的一次公共电视采访中，众议院长南希•佩罗西承认她们党无法确定撤军时间表。
她说民主党只能做那么多，而且08年11月的总统大选将使战争有所改观。
