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PRESIDENT BUSH, meeting British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Camp David, Md., said coalition forces were “advancing day by day" and predicted victory. But he would not say how long that might take.
“I can assure you there will be a day of reckoning for Iraq, and that day is drawing near,” Bush told reporters. “However long it takes to win. However long it takes to achieve our objective. However long it takes.”
Defending the administration’s request for $75 billion for an emergency war spending package before the Senate and House Appropriations committees, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld also dampened expectations for a quick end to the conflict.
“We’re still closer to the beginning than we are to the end” of the war, Rumsfeld said, adding that “the campaign could well grow more dangerous in com...