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"WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Thursday sought to defuse congressional opposition to its plans to negotiate a long-term agreement with Iraq on the presence of U.S. ******, contending it would not tie the hands of the next president.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said discussions within the administration are just getting started, but he doesn't expect the framework agreement to lock the next White House into specific U.S. military base or troop commitments."
"In a recent presidential debate, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., said she was committed to trying to get all U.S. troops out of Iraq within a year if elected. However, she added that she didn't know what the next president might "inherit" from Bush.
"There is a big problem looming on the horizon that we had better pay attention to, and that is President Bush is intent upon negotiating a long-term agreement with Iraq which would have permanent bases, permanent troop presence," she said. "And he claims he does not need to come to the United States Congress to get permission; he only needs to go to the Iraqi parliament."
And they want to do this with no approval by congress,commit us to long term bases in Iraq,which many have felt was what this war was all about in the 1st place.Bald faced american imperialism at its finest.
"WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Thursday sought to defuse congressional opposition to its plans to negotiate a long-term agreement with Iraq on the presence of U.S. ******, contending it would not tie the hands of the next president.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said discussions within the administration are just getting started, but he doesn't expect the framework agreement to lock the next White House into specific U.S. military base or troop commitments."
"In a recent presidential debate, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., said she was committed to trying to get all U.S. troops out of Iraq within a year if elected. However, she added that she didn't know what the next president might "inherit" from Bush.
"There is a big problem looming on the horizon that we had better pay attention to, and that is President Bush is intent upon negotiating a long-term agreement with Iraq which would have permanent bases, permanent troop presence," she said. "And he claims he does not need to come to the United States Congress to get permission; he only needs to go to the Iraqi parliament."
And they want to do this with no approval by congress,commit us to long term bases in Iraq,which many have felt was what this war was all about in the 1st place.Bald faced american imperialism at its finest.
