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To: Alighieri who wrote (186055)	4/4/2004 7:16:39 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576711

Al, <font color=brown>Here it starts........we ain't going anywhere come 30 June. The GOP spin machine has begun.<font color=black> ted ******************************************************** Senators question Iraq readiness for sovereignty By Associated Press, 4/4/2004 15:20 WASHINGTON (AP) The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee raised the prospect Sunday of extending the Bush administration's June 30 deadline for turning over power in Iraq, questioning whether the country would be ready for self-rule. Sen. Dick Lugar said security is a shambles in some cities, and Iraqi police forces are not prepared to take over. ''The real issue is June 30, how we are going to make that transition,'' the Indiana Republican** said on ABC's ''This Week.'' The key, he said, is that ''even as we're trying to get security, which we must, and Iraqis take on more security, there will be enough going there that, in fact, the democratic forces can have the constitution building, they can have the elections, can have the transition.'' Asked whether transferring power in less than three months would be too soon, Lugar said, ''It may be, and I think it's probably time to have that debate.'' Under current plans, Iraq would no longer be under U.S. political control on June 30, but more than 100,000 American troops would remain in the country. U.S. officials have said the Army is assuming it will have to keep roughly 100,000 troops in Iraq for at least another two years. Lugar, who plans committee hearings on Iraq this month, said there remain far too many questions about what will happen after installation of an interim government, whose composition has yet to be decided. He said the administration has not told his committee its plans for an ambassador, who the 3,000 embassy staff will be and how they and the embassy will be protected. ''This is a huge new exposure of Americans,'' Lugar said. ''At this point, I would have thought there would have been a more comprehensive plan.'' boston.com