Iraqi PM meets Bush as memo questions grow

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1667771,00.html

Iraqi PM meets Bush as memo questions grow
By Sam Knight, Times Online

The Prime Minister of Iraq will meet President Bush at the White House today, amid growing unease in Washington over the invasion and the continued presence of US soldiers in Iraq.

Ibrahim al-Jaafari arrived in Washington yesterday and visited wounded American soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Today he will meet Mr Bush at what the White House has described as "a critical time".

"The President looks forward to welcoming Prime Minister Jaafari," said Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary. "This meeting does come at a critical time in Iraq's historic transformation."

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John Conyers, a Democratic Congressman from Michigan, said the memo, which relates a briefing given by C, the head of MI6, show that Mr Bush overstepped his powers as President.
"It goes back to article one, section eight of the constitution that says only Congress has the power to declare war," Congressman Conyers told BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning.

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1. PM minister says US must stay in Irag-headline on yahoo

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2. What a surprise, when that minister is a dictator. n/t