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...Iraqis. Both agreed that the matter now required face time with Administration principals in Washington. When the conversation resumed the next day, it took just a quick look at calendars--President Bush was off to London for a state visit then to Texas for Thanksgiving, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was about to leave for Asia--for everyone to recognize that Bremer should get back to Washington, fast...
...best face on things. True, the Japanese have delayed the deployment of their promised force to Iraq, and the South Koreans have capped the number they plan to send, but--as always--all will be well. The growing number of Iraqi security forces--now, according to Rumsfeld, 131,000 strong--will augment the troops of those members of the coalition who still have a stomach for the fight. It is likely, however, that there will be plenty of U.S. forces in Iraq for some time. A Pentagon official in Iraq says the plan is to eventually take all U.S. soldiers...
...less clear are the plans for the U.S. military. Fearing that the hand-over plan may signal a precipitous exit by the U.S., President Bush has rushed to reassure Iraqis that the U.S. military will stay on in Iraq even after the new government takes over. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld made the same point in even more muscular terms, suggesting that the political transition is a "separate track" that had nothing to do with U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq, and that the U.S. would not be leaving any time soon. But, on paper at least, the political plan...
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...NOTEBOOK Diplomacy: Sorry, Mr. Rumsfeld China: Serial killers Vietnam: Old guard speaks out Milestones Verbatim Letters...