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| Bush supports prospect of U.S troops cut in Iraq- U.S Statement |
| 2008-08-01 |
| (VOI) - U.S president George Bush on Thursday held out the prospect of further troop reductions in Iraq later this year, hailing a new security gains achieved in the violence-torn country. "This has been a month of encouraging news from Iraq," a U.S department statement, received by Aswat al-Iraq-voices of Iraq (VOI), cited Bush as saying. The U.S president noted "violence is down to its lowest level since the spring of 2004, and we're now in our third consecutive month with reduced violence levels holding steady." He conceded "Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker had cautioned that the progress is still reversible", adding"they report that there now appears to be a degree of durability to the gains that we have made." Seizing on the achieved security gains in Iraq, Bush suggested he "would be open to the idea if trends continue". |
| Posted by:Fred |