Bush warns against fast troop withdrawal from Iraq

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Monday additional American troops in Iraq have helped reduce violence and withdrawing too quickly could undermine progress.

"Having come so far and achieved so much, we must not allow this to happen," Bush said in his annual State of the Union address to Congress.

He said more than 20,000 troops would return but "any further drawdown of U.S. troops will be based on conditions in Iraq and the recommendations of our commanders."

(Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, editing by Chris Wilson)