Bush urges nations to keep Iraq pledges

You Broke it, You Fix it Moron, Colin Powell already explained that to you.

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Saturday urged other nations to make good on $13 billion in pledges to help the new Baghdad government and said the United States had come too far to abandon Iraq now.

Bush, who is keen to show progress even as polls say a majority of Americans think the 2003 invasion was a mistake, laid out an ambitious agenda for U.S. assistance, including helping the Iraqis increase oil and electricity production by working to protect pipelines from attack.

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"We will encourage other nations to fulfill the monetary pledges they have already made to help the new Iraqi government succeed," Bush said. The international community promised about $13 billion, but so far only about $3 billion has been paid out.

U.S. diplomats will go to Asia, Europe and the Middle East to prod donors, some of whom fear their money will be used for security rather than reconstruction.

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Some Democrats have demanded U.S. forces be pulled out soon.

"At the earliest practicable time, the United States must begin the responsible redeployment of its troops, and the Iraqis must assume the burden of defending their own country," said Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

With the mounting cost of the war in lives, money and the U.S. reputation abroad, Americans were insisting on a new direction in Iraq, the California congresswoman said in the Democratic radio address. "We must change the course."

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