Reply #7: Bush Says No Timetable for Iraq Withdrawl

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5096329,00.html

Bush Says No Timetable for Iraq Withdrawl

Friday June 24, 2005 5:01 PM


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By DEB RIECHMANN

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush assured Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Friday ``there's not going to be any timetable'' for withdrawal of American forces and vowed victory over insurgents attempting to prevent establishment of a democratic government.

``This is not the time to fall back,'' al-Jaafari concurred at a joint news conference at the White House.

Fielding questions hours after the latest attack on a U.S. military convoy left an unknown number of American troops dead, Bush conceded that it bothers Americans to see scenes of carnage on television.

Speaking of the insurgents, he said, ``There's no question there's an enemy that still wants to shake our will and get us to leave. ...They try to kill and they do kill innocent Iraqi people, women and children 'cause they know that the carnage that they reap will be on TV and they know that it bothers people to see death.''

``It does. It bothers me. It bothers American citizens. It bothers Iraqis,'' Bush said.


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