BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s state minister for women’s affairs has quit to protest a lack of resources for a daunting task — improving the lives of “a full army of widows” and other women left poor or abandoned by war. In an interview Sunday with The Associated Press, Nawal al-Samarraie described how her office’s budget was so tight that she often found herself dipping into her own pockets for the women who came begging for help. She said she finally submitted her resignation last week in part because her budget was slashed from $7,500 to $1,500 per month — part of overall government spending cuts.——Contact the Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]