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U.S. Uncertain of Iraq's Future Unity
U.S. President George W. Bush will not sign bills expressing American discontent with the performance of Iraqi leaders, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced. “We don't want… to tie our own hands so that we cannot act creatively and flexibly to support the very policies in Iraq that we're trying to enforce," Rice said.
“The Iraqi leadership is being told, and I think they understand, that the kind of Iraq that there is going to be is up to them. We can't give them a united Iraq,” she added later, speaking on national television.
The U.S. Congress is considering making an official statement calling on the Iraqi government to speed up progress in the country. The American Democratic Party is also hoping that a bill requiring the withdraw of American troops from Iraq by April 2008 that has passed both houses of Congress will force the Iraqi government to become more active.
The decision made by the Congress to withdraw U.S. troops next year has caused consternation in Iraq. Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh stated that the law could have a “negative” effect on the political life of his country and encourage extremists to become more active. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has also stated that he does not support a deadline for a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq.
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