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President Bush guarantees
Iraq's move to democracy
Bush says American troops
will remain in the country
after the June 30 handover
By Ron Hutcheson
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WASHINGTON — Underpressure
to spell out a dear strategy in Iraq,
President Bush on Monday prom
ised to give Iraqis "full sovereignty"
on June 30 and offered to demolish
the Iraqi prison at the heart of the
prisoner-abuse scandal.
In remarks Monday night, Bush
said U.S. troops would remain in the
country under U.S. command even af
ter Iraqis take control of their domes
tic affairs next month.
But some key questions remained
unanswered. With a little more than
five weeks to go before the handoff to
an interim Iraqi government, U.S. of
ficials don't know who will take over
in Iraq or how long U.S. troops will
stay. The Bush plan calls for the elec
tion of a permanent Iraqi government
by the end of2005.
"America's task in Iraq is not only
to help Iraq defeat an enemy, it is to
give strength to a friend — a free, rep
resentative government that serves its
people and fights on its behalf," Bush
said in remarks planned for the U.S.
Army War College. "And the sooner
this goal is achieved, the sooner our
job will be done."
Bush's offer to demolish the Abu
Ghraib prison would destroy a facility
with a grim past. The prison was used
as a torture chamber by Saddam I lus
sein, but was more recently the scene
of abuses inflicted on Iraqi captives by
U.S. soldiers.
Army officials also announced
Monday that Brig. Gen. Janis Karpins
ki, who commanded the military po
lice at the prison, was relieved of her
command and suspended from active
duty. Pentagon officials are consider
ing charges against her.
Bush's prime-time speech was part
of a concerted White House effort to
calm fears that Iraq is descending into
chaos. A growing insurgency, a spate of
deadly terrorist attacks and bitter in
fighting among Iraqis allied with the
United States have cast doubt about
the prospects for democracy and
American resolve to finish the job.
"We will persevere, and defeat this
enemy, and hold this hard-won ground
for the realm of liberty," Bush said.
The speech was also intended to
shore up Bush's political standing at
home. With less than six months to
go before the November election,
three new polls released Monday
showed growing doubts about the
Iraq war and increasing dissatisfaction
with Bush's performance.
The president's record 90 percent
approval rating after the terrorist at
tacks on Sept. 11,2001, plummeted to
47 percent in a Gallup poll complet
ed Sunday. The last three incumbent
presidents who fell below 50 percent
approval at this stage in their terms all
failed to win re-election.
In a CBS News poll, 65 percent of
Americans said the country is on the
wrong track, the highest level of dissat
isfaction since the network began
polling on that issue in the mid-1980s.
And a Washington Post-ABC News poll
found that 58 percent of Americans dis
approve of his handling of the conflict
in Iraq, the highest dissatisfaction level
since the war started in March 2003.
While acknowledging the difficulties
in Iraq, Bush expressed confidence that
the country will make the transition
from dictatorship to democracy. As he
has in the past, he cast the conflict as a
key test in the broader war on
international terrorism.
"Our terrorist enemies have a vi
sion that guides and explains all their
varied acts of murder," he said. "Our
actions, too, are guided by a vision.
We believe that freedom can advance
and change lives in the greater Middle
East, as it has advanced and changed
lives in Asia, and Latin America, and
Eastern Europe and Africa."
In keeping with Bush's plan, the
draft U.N. resolution would give the
interim Iraqi government control over
most domestic government functions,
including contracts related to the re
building effort. It would also return
control of oil revenues to Iraqis.
But the document is vague on the
precise powers that Iraqi authorities will
have over Iraqi military forces and their
relationship to the 150,000-strong U.S.
led coalition force, which will remain in
the country. The resolution calls on the
U.S.-led force to operate in "close coor
dination" with the interim government
but U.S. officials have ruled out sugges
tions that the new government be given
veto power over military operations.
That could set the stage for a diplo
matic tussle with Germany, Russia
and particularly France, which are ea
ger to put limits on the U.S. military
presence, European diplomats said.
A U.S. diplomat, speaking on con
dition of anonymity, said the interim
Iraqi government, which is supposed
to be formed by the end of May, is ex
pected to send a letter to the United
Nations requesting the continued
presence of coalition forces.
Secretary of State Colin Powell
said recently that the United States
would leave Iraq after June 30 if
asked. Other senior officials have
told Congress that Iraqi forces would
be able to "opt out" of specific mili
tary operations if they choose to.
The resolution says the coalition's
mandate in Iraq will be reviewed in a
year, or earlier if requested by the in
terim Iraqi government.
The Gallup poll of 1,002 voters
from Friday to Sunday had a margin
of error of 4.5 percentage points. The
CBS News poll of 1,113 adults, con
ducted Thursday through Sunday, had
a margin of error of 3 percentage
points. The Washington Post-ABC
News poll of 1,005 adults, conducted
Thursday through Sunday, had a mar
gin of error of 3 percentage points.
(cj 2004, Knight Ridder/
Tribune Information Services.
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