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Rumsfeld: No Early U.S. Pullout from Iraq
Wired News ^ | Thursday, November 13, 2003 | Reuters

Posted on 11/13/2003 8:37:42 PM PST by yonif

Edited on 06/29/2004 7:10:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

AIR FORCE BASE, Guam (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told U.S. forces in the Pacific on Friday there was no plan for an early withdrawal from Iraq, but Iraqis would get more power more quickly than initially thought.

"There is no decision to pull out (of Iraq) early, indeed quite the contrary," Rumsfeld told troops stationed on the Pacific island outpost of Guam before leaving to visit Japan and South Korea .


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; rumsfeld; timeline; ustroops; waronterrorism

1 posted on 11/13/2003 8:37:43 PM PST by yonif
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To: yonif
"We will stay there as long as necessary to see that that country is put on a path" to democracy, he said.

Good.

2 posted on 11/13/2003 8:49:18 PM PST by Jorge
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To: yonif
There's no messing with the Bush Administration!
3 posted on 11/13/2003 8:58:33 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: yonif
Right on! We bugged out once before and hundreds of thousands who believed in us and our ways and put their lives on the line died as a direct result of the bug out crew, particularly Teddy K. Let's not repeat. Our way will never again be believed and followed if we do, with disastrous results.
4 posted on 11/13/2003 9:38:52 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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