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Iraq Partition Called Wholly Unacceptable But Formal Policy Review Underway
Washington (AFP) Nov 15, 2006 Partition of Iraq along sectarian lines is "wholly unacceptable" to the United States, a senior State Department official said Wednesday, warning of the high cost in human suffering. "Partition in Iraq could only be achieved at an expense of human suffering and bloodshed and forced dislocation that would be both profound and wholly unacceptable, I believe, to the American people," said Ambassador David Satterfield, the State Department's coordinator of Iraq policy. "It is wholly unacceptable to this administration," he told a Senate hearing after being asked about partition as an option for stabilizing Iraq.
earlier related report Hadley added that Bush met Tuesday with his top national security advisors and ordered the internal review process be integrated in a single report by the NSC. "What we've done is formalize an informal process that has been going on ... this needs to be done in conjunction with Iraqis, because at the end of the day it's Iraqis that are going to get Iraq right." Hadley, speaking to reporters aboard the presidential jet en route to Singapore, said the review was not meant to eclipse the work of a bipartisan panel of retired Washington heavyweights that is also studying Iraq policy. "This is not a competition with the Iraq Study Group," Hadley said, adding that the administration looked forward to considering its recommendations. The internal review is about a different level of detail, however, such as "what forces would go where and do what, the kind of thing a blue-ribbon panel could never do," Hadley said. Bush -- under increased pressure to revise Iraq strategy following the Republican electoral defeat last week -- has always insisted that his administration modifies its tactics to adapt to changing conditions on the ground in Iraq. But the internal review is a new indication that a more substantial policy change could be in the works.
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Blair Urges Bush To Alter Policy
Paris (UPI) Nov 14, 2006British Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of President George W. Bush's most ardent supporters in the triple wars -- Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terrorism -- is urging the American president to consider using all of his clout and make a dramatic U-turn from current Iraq policy. A policy which, if left unchanged, more and more experts, analysts and politicians agree will lead to nothing short of disaster. |
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