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This is no news. We have military bases in just about every country we have ever fought with. We have bases in Japan and Germany and Italy. You can tell Bush's plan basically is to hold the course and let the next president deal with his mess this way he looks less bad. If the next president pulls people out and it all goes to hell Bush can say, "I told you so." and if the next president stays in Iraq and things get better he can say the same thing. The only thing that could hurt him more is if the next president pulls out the troops and things suddenly get better. Then he will probably say, "we won. I started it and it ended just how I planned."
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