Bush administration discussing permanently occupying Iraq

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/03/africa/03assess.php

Quote:

For the first time, the Bush administration is beginning publicly to discuss basing American troops in Iraq for years, even decades to come, a subject so fraught with political landmines that officials are tiptoeing around the inevitable questions about what the United States' long-term mission would be there.