Iraq
George Bush hinted yesterday that US troops would remain in Iraq for years. He also rejected widespread demands for the replacement of his Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld.
he signalled that a full pullout of US troops would not happen during the near three years in office that remain to him. It would be for "future presidents and future governments of Iraq" to decide whether all US forces in the country - more than 130,000 - should be withdrawn.
President Bush was joined in his defence of the war by Tony Blair who told an audience in London that although it was "debatable" whether it was right to invade Iraq, even his critics must realise the West has to support Iraqi democracy against the terrorists.
"This is not a clash between civilisations but a clash about civilisation," Mr Blair claimed, in the first of a series of three major speeches about foreign policy, timed to mark the third anniversary of the Iraq war.
he signalled that a full pullout of US troops would not happen during the near three years in office that remain to him. It would be for "future presidents and future governments of Iraq" to decide whether all US forces in the country - more than 130,000 - should be withdrawn.
President Bush was joined in his defence of the war by Tony Blair who told an audience in London that although it was "debatable" whether it was right to invade Iraq, even his critics must realise the West has to support Iraqi democracy against the terrorists.
"This is not a clash between civilisations but a clash about civilisation," Mr Blair claimed, in the first of a series of three major speeches about foreign policy, timed to mark the third anniversary of the Iraq war.
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