Bush Aides Seek More Time for Iraq Plan as Senate Debate Starts

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Source: Bloomberg

Bush Aides Seek More Time for Iraq Plan as Senate Debate Starts

Ken Fireman
Tue Jul 10, 12:28 AM ET

July 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Bush administration is seeking more time to quell sectarian and insurgent violence in Iraq as pressure mounts from some Republicans and most Democrats in the U.S. Senate to begin withdrawing troops.

Senators, starting two weeks of debate over the increasingly unpopular war, took up a measure yesterday to require a minimum home leave between combat deployments. They will move on to proposals demanding that most U.S. troops depart Iraq by next year. In the past two weeks at least four Republican senators have called on Bush to change his Iraq strategy.

As the debate began, administration officials and their allies had two messages: First, that President George W. Bush isn't about to change course and embrace a gradual pullout from Iraq, and second, that expectations should be low about a report Bush must give Congress by July 15.

Bush's advisers ``are concerned that there is a misimpression being created here that the president has in mind'' some sort of ``premature withdrawal,'' Senator Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, told reporters after meeting with White House aides.


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1. how much more time?

have had 4 years 3 months so far...

mmmm...drag it out for another, ummmm... 18 months? dump it into someone else's lap sometime around Jan 2009?

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2. Did anyone else see this coming? I mean really folks, the hacks in

Washington D.C. voted to give them a blank check before, of course this criminal administration knows that they'll cow and vote to give them another. The might have to tell some hokey lie such as they're trying to find a way out of Iraq, but they won't mean it a bit. And our dems will know its all bullshit. And they'll write them another check.

I would like to be wrong but...