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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.
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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
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posted on
11/13/2003 8:37:43 PM PST
by
yonif
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
To: yonif
There's no messing with the Bush Administration!
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.
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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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