The North American president, at the end of mandate, enacted legislation to release 162 thousand million dollars (nearly 103 thousand million) for financing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan until 2009.

“I thank the Republicans and Democrats in Congress that they have seen on these crucial funding for the commanders (military field) are not of hands tied, or subject to an artificial timetable for withdrawal (of troops),” said George W. Bush.

The Democratic opponents of the president, majority in Congress, they abandoned the intention to impose legislation on a date for the withdrawal of troops, as had imposed in 2007, when they took the majority in Congress.

The North American military presence in Iraq is one of the major topics for the November presidential elections.

The Republican John McCain supports the policy of the current president, but the Democrat Barack Obama not. The senator Illinois advocates of the early withdrawal of troops from the moment they take office in the White House, where the presidential win of November.

George W. Bush used the release of funds to enhance progress in Iraqi internal security, to the point that “some soldiers have begun to return home,” he said. But not talked about what will happen after the summer, in the last quarter of its mandate. The North American contingent in Iraq should be reduced until July to 140 thousand personnel. Then, there was an assessment period, to decide whether there is or not, able to continue to reduce the presence of troops in Iraq.