Bush to Detail Transition Monday in First of Several Iraq Speeches

Bush to Detail Transition Monday in First of Several Iraq Speeches
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41081-2004May19.html
By Robin Wright and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, May 20, 2004; Page A18


President Bush will lay out details of the U.S. plan for the Iraq transition at a major speech Monday in a bid to counter mounting public anxiety over the escalating violence and uncertainty less than six weeks before the handover of political power in Baghdad, according to U.S. officials.

Beginning with Monday's address at the Army War College, Bush will give a major speech on Iraq every week through June 30, when the U.S.-led coalition is due to turn over limited authority to a new interim Iraqi government. "We're entering a critical phase, and the president will be speaking out each week to discuss with the American people, and the world, the way forward in Iraq," said a White House official.

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In another sign of the developing campaign to win wider support for the U.S. strategy, Bush is also considering meeting in New York with the U.N. Security Council and senior representatives of countries in the U.S.-led coalition, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told reporters after meeting with Bush.

The meeting would help bestow legitimacy on the new Iraqi government and generate international cooperation in the next phase of the transition between July 1 and January 2005, when Iraqis will go to the polls for the first time to elect a national assembly, Berlusconi added.

Last night, a White House official would only say that it is an "idea being discussed."

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looks like more jawboning from an ass to me...

:puke:

This is great! A speech a week from bu$h between now and the "Transition!" Now that the War To Make Dick Cheney Rich is being revealed for the Clusterfuck that it is, what could possibly stir up any more resentment toward the Regime?

Why, having The Chimp on TV, still unable to string two sentences together without mangling the English language, without looking like an even bigger tool, of course!

Oh, yeah. This is going to do wonders in terms of rallying Murkins behind our Great Wartime Preznit! He's already starting to sweat the way Nixxon did toward the end--I can't wait to watch his evil glands open up on CNN! I wanna see RIVERS of flop sweat!

BRING IT ON, GEORGIE. BE CONVINCING.

:evilgrin:
dbt

PS: You Worthless Little Fuck!

Wonder if he'll explain that power will be turned over to handpicked puppets of his regime. Does the name negroponte ring bells to the Iraqis?