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Bush discusses Iraq

President Bush met with congressional leaders last Friday and said he would consider their ideas about Iraq. Congressional leaders believe that we need to make new advances in Iraq by taking out troops and bringing them home, not by asking Iraqi soldiers but just by telling them and doing it. President Bush isn't expected to accept all 79 recommendations but it is said that some new tactics may be in order.

President Bush said that he now realizes that his success rate is not as rapid as he hoped it would be and that it still isn't. Bush earlier met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Blair endorsed his ideas of bringing democracy to the Middle East. Bush is set to give a big speech on the war in Iraq before Christmas talking about the recommendations and what he is going to do.

I'm eager to see what Bush says and what changes he makes because I have felt that we have needed to make changes for quite sometime. Troops have been dying left and right and I don't believe that some deaths have been necessary. We have been there too long and I'm happy that finally Bush sees this and is hopefully making some changes.

For more information on Tony Blair and President Bush meeting as well as other countries on the topic of Iraq click here http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/07/bush.blair/index.html.

posted by Anonymous @ 12/08/2006 10:41:00 AM