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Posted at 7:40pm on Jan. 12, 2008 Think Of It As Saving A Certain Potential President From Herself

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Understanding that it is entirely possible that a Democrat may be elected President and understanding as well that such an election may throw any gains and advances in Iraq in peril, the Bush Administration is now working to ensure that it solidifies the gains that have been brought about by the surge and the implementation of the counterinsurgency plan:

In remarks to the traveling press, delivered from the Third Army operation command center here, Bush said that negotiations were about to begin on a long-term strategic partnership with the Iraqi government modeled on the accords the United States has with Kuwait and many other countries. Crocker, who flew in from Baghdad with Petraeus to meet with the president, elaborated: "We're putting our team together now, making preparations in Washington," he told reporters. "The Iraqis are doing the same. And in the few weeks ahead, we would expect to get together to start this negotiating process." The target date for concluding the agreement is July, says Gen. Doug Lute, Bush's Iraq coordinator in the White House--in other words, just in time for the Democratic and Republican national conventions.

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