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No timetable for Iraq withdrawal: Bush
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush assured Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Friday “there’s not going to be any timetable” for withdrawal of American forces and vowed victory over insurgents attempting to prevent establishment of a democratic government. “This is not the time to fall back,” al-Jaafari concurred at a joint news conference at the White House.
Too bad the Democrats can't figure that out.
Fielding questions hours after the latest attack on a US military convoy left an unknown number of American troops dead, Bush conceded it bothers Americans to see scenes of carnage on television. Speaking of the insurgents, he said, “There’s no question there’s an enemy that still wants to shake our will and get us to leave. ...They try to kill and they do kill innocent Iraqi people, women and children cause they know that the carnage that they reap will be on TV and they know that it bothers people to see death.

“It does it bothers me. It bothers American citizens. It bothers Iraqis.”

Bush said he would stay the course in Iraq despite public opinion polls showing dwindling support for his policy. He indicated his awareness of his domestic critics when a reporter began asking a question about whether he was concerned about a “slump“in his support.

“Quagmire?” the president suggested instead, employing a word that some Democrats in Congress have begun to use to describe the military presence in Iraq one year after the transfer of sovereignty.

Al-Jaafari, seemed to recognize the domestic pressure on the president. “You have given us more than money, you have given us your sons...this is more precious than any other support we have received,” he said.

An Iraqi reporter asked the two men when reconstruction would begin in the war-torn country. Bush said he wasn’t trying to “pass the buck,” but looked at al-Jaafari and said “they’re in charge,” meaning the Iraqis.
Posted by: Steve White 2005-06-25
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=122478