ABC: Bush's Speech on Iraq Gets Mixed Reaction [View All]

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http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20030908_207.html

Master Sgt. Franklin Brown cheered President Bush's call for a multinational force in Iraq. He applauded Bush's plan to seek $87 billion to fight terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The one thing that disappointed Brown about Bush's national address Sunday was the president's failure to say when his 22-year-old son and other U.S. troops might be finished in Iraq.

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Unlike Brown, Austin Swint found little to cheer about in Bush's speech.

Swint, 32, a bar manager from San Diego, gasped aloud when Bush said he would ask Congress for more military funding. He said the rebuilding effort was taking money away from education and other domestic priorities.

"It's just too much (money)," said Swint, who voted for Bush in 2000. "We are not the world's policemen. We don't need to rebuild Iraq. We just need to put them in the right direction."