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On Iraq, Clinton Tries a New Tack
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 On Iraq, Clinton Tries a New Tack
Responding to news that negotiations with the Iraq government will start in January on the withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq, Senator Clinton is trying to distance herself from the White House position on whether America should leave behind a permanent military presence.In an open letter to the president, Mrs. Clinton yesterday asked him to promise that he would not agree to lodge American troops permanently in Iraq and reminded him that Congress has already voted to ensure that there is no residual American force left in Iraq when the conflict is brought to its end.
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Responding to news that negotiations with the Iraq government will start in January on the withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq, Senator Clinton is trying to distance herself from the White House position on whether America should leave behind a permanent military presence.In an open letter to the president, Mrs. Clinton yesterday asked him to promise that he would not agree to lodge American troops permanently in Iraq and reminded him that Congress has already voted to ensure that there is no residual American force left in Iraq when the conflict is brought to its end.On Monday, the president's Iraq war tsar, Lieutenant General Douglas Lute, announced a timetable for negotiations leading to the withdrawal of most American troops by the end of President Bush's term in office in January 2008. But the general suggested the president was looking for a permanent bilateral security arrangement with Iraq that would leave perhaps 50,000 American military personnel in the country."The shape and size of any long-term, or longer than 2008, U.S. presence in Iraq will be a key matter for negotiation between the two parties, Iraq and the United States," the general said.Mrs. Clinton's letter demanded that the president declare his intentions towards Iraq. "I am particularly concerned that this document did not contain any explicit reference or language that indicates that the United States will not seek and will not maintain permanent military bases in Iraq," she wrote.She reminded the president that "Congress explicitly passed a restriction on the use of any funds to establish any military installation or base for the permanent stationing of United States Forces in Iraq.""Given the express will of Congress and the American people to oppose permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq, the failure to include express language addressing this issue in the Declaration of Principles with the Iraqi government is deeply troubling," she wrote. "To be clear, attempts to establish permanent bases in Iraq would damage U.S. interests in Iraq and the broader region, and I will continue to strongly oppose such efforts."
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