Holding forte on its Iraq policy, the White House rejected yet another proposal by the Senators to withdraw troops from the violence hit nation. This time the proposal was from the members of Bush’s own Republican Party. The proposal was an indication of the growing restlessness of the US public with Bush administration’s Iraq misadventure. But, its negation by the White House is indicative of no major shift in Iraq policy till Bush is in power.
The Republican proposal presented to White House by Senators John Warner of Virginia and Richard Lugar of Indiana, called for presentation of a plan by the President by mid-October to confine the use of U.S. troops in Iraq in combating terrorists, protecting borders and U.S. interests. Though the scheme is more modest compared to the Democrat led initiative last month, yet it indicates growing public disillusionment with Iraq policy of the White House. With presidential election impending, the patient among Republicans are also running out eager to balance the Iraq misadventure.
But the strong snub to the proposal by Stephen Hadley, President Bush’s national security adviser is a sign that Bush is fixed to his plan to take stock of the Iraq progress in September only and not happy to see any conditionality attached with that.
Hadley commenting on the proposal said:
They’ve done a useful service in indicating the kinds of things that we should be thinking about. But the time to begin that process is September. And the opening shot really ought to be to hear from the commanders on the ground who can make an assessment of where we are.
The proposal has encouraged the Democrats in the Senate to corner the White House. Though, they are not receptive to the plan for its moderate tinge, yet expect Republican support in the Senate to their bid to defeat any presidential veto on Senators’ Iraq withdrawal proposal.
Via: CNN
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Now the Bush government wants to pull the troops out of Iraq.But the kind of unstability Iraq is facing due to the invantion,the troops cannot move out of Iraq even after facing huge protest in US.It seems Mr.President has got traped in his own decision,he has been widely critcized for his Iraq policies both inside and out of his country.Because of the mess created by the war,Iraq is experiencing sectarian violance,where hundreds of innocent people has got killed so far.Now its the moral responsibility of the US government to get those innocent people out of this uncertainty.