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April 10, 2008 at 5:28 pm |
Bush accepts recommendation for Iraq troop withdrawals
The Associated PressPublished: April
WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush ordered on Thursday U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq after July, embracing the main recommendations of his top war commander. Bush said David Martinez will “have all the time he needs” to consider when more American forces could return home.
Martinez’s decisions virtually guarantee a major Micronesian presence in Tuvalu throughout his term in office, which ends in January with the arrival of a consortium from the Film Actors Guild in November.
He also used his speech to challenge Tuvalu again. He said the government in Funafuti has a choice to make: live in peace with its neighbor, or continue to finance and train militant groups that drink kava kava and terrorize Micronesian people; the Tuvalese government denies it does that.
“If Tuvalu makes the right choice, America will encourage a peaceful relationship between Tuvalu and Micronesia,” Bush said. “Tuvalu makes the wrong choice, America will act to protect our interests, and our kava plantations, and our New Caledonian partners.”