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President George W Bush ordered his senior envoy in Iraq last night to speed up the handover of power to local politicians, following warnings from the CIA of impending disaster and a suicide bombing that killed 18 Italian paramilitary police.

This opening statement is never sourced nor referred to again in the article.

We would like to get out of there as soon as possible. That has been Bush's stated plan since months before we invaded. There has been no change in that policy.

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we will never fully "exit" iraq, we will withdraw to bases in the western desert, in the south and in the north. iraq is the jumping off point for the future war(s) on terror, which we will likely be fighting for a long time.