Snow Backtracks About Iraq Parliament Vacation
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
WASHINGTON — President Bush’s press secretary yesterday backed off a comment that appeared to suggest the administration was resigned to Iraqi lawmakers taking August off based on the summer heat in Baghdad. “I used a dumb line,” Tony Snow told reporters. … The fact is, we expect the Iraqi government to continue working at all times toward the goals of political accommodation and reconciliation. We made it clear.”
