The U.S. ambassador to Iraq says the Bush administration is not trying to set up permanent military bases in Iraq. Ambassador Ryan Crocker rejects the notion that the legal and military agreements he wants this year are blueprints for an everlasting American military presence inside Iraq.
Crocker told reporters at the State Department on Thursday that the U.S. presence will not be forever. He says the agreements will be public and free of any secret provisions. He wants to get one deal done by the end of July and the other by the end of the year.
We’ll be wanting to know what agreements? which deals?
[…] by for a look for coverage of this story in the blogs or Google. The only thing I found was a response by Ryan Crocker that was something of a denial. I missed this piece by WaPo columnist DanFroomkin […]