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From: Road Walker	6/4/2006 9:17:00 AM
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How come Rummy not Condi on this trip... looks like State Dept to me??? Maybe in 35 years we can become friends with Iraq? U.S. seeks stronger ties with Vietnam By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday the United States wants to expand its military relationship with Vietnam, but has no plans to seek access to military facilities in this former enemy nation. Arriving in Hanoi just days after the United States signed a trade agreement with Vietnam, Rumsfeld planned to meet with the U.S. military team involved in finding and identifying the remains of hundreds of U.S. servicemen still missing in action from the Vietnam war. En route to Hanoi, Rumsfeld talked only generally about his goals for the U.S. military relationship with a country that has come to symbolize one of the military's most divisive and politically explosive wars. "I don't have a wish list and I don't have a set of things we're trying to achieve," he said. "What we want to see is a relationship between our country and Vietnam evolve in a way that is comfortable to them and comfortable to us. And it has been doing that over recent years and I suspect it will continue on that path." Critics of the current Iraq war and Rumsfeld's leadership have compared it to the Vietnam conflict, noting that in both public support eroded as time went on with little to show for the loss of American lives. On the trade deal with the United States, which removes one of the last major hurdles in Hanoi's bid to join the World Trade Organization, Rumsfeld said he's been impressed with the Vietnam people and their economy. "They've got a very good growth rate. They have a sizable population and they're industrious. And I think it would be a good thing to be in the WTO," he said. Congress would have to vote before the August recess to grant permanent normal trade relations to Vietnam in order for the WTO membership to move forward. This is Rumsfeld's first trip to Vietnam as defense secretary, and it comes more than 30 years after the end of the Vietnam war. He previously visited the country twice in the late 1960s as a member of Congress, then returned as a private citizen about a decade ago.

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