{"id":4849,"date":"2004-05-24T23:29:45","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T03:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/05\/24\/no-denial-of-post-sovereignty"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:44","slug":"no-denial-of-post-sovereignty-pull-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/05\/24\/no-denial-of-post-sovereignty-pull-out\/","title":{"rendered":"No Denial of Post-Sovereignty Pull-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1546'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/escKeyneg.gif\" alt=\"escape key neg\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">In his thirty-minute speech tonight, President <STRONG>George W. Bush<\/STRONG> did <EM>nothing<\/EM> to squelch the rumors (started <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/05\/18#a1499\">here<\/A>) that his current <STRONG>Exit Strategy<\/STRONG> is to find a transitional government that will ask for a pull-out of all coalition forces after June 30th.&nbsp; Indeed, he stressed that the new government would have &#8220;<STRONG>full sovereignty<\/STRONG>,&#8221; while giving no pullout timetable&nbsp;(See <A href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/url?ntc=0M0A0&amp;q=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml%3Ftype%3DtopNews%26storyID%3D5242216\">Reuters<\/A>, &#8220;<FONT size=\"3\"><FONT color=\"black\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Bush Tries to Allay Mounting Doubts Over Iraq,&#8221; 05-24-04)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><FONT color=\"red\"><STRONG>H<FONT color=\"black\">mmmmm<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/FONT>. <\/FONT><br \/>\n<LI><FONT face=\"Arial\" color=\"black\" size=\"2\"><FONT color=\"red\"><EM><STRONG>Update<\/STRONG><\/EM> (05-25-04)<\/FONT>:&nbsp; Somebody needs to remind TChirs at <A href=\"http:\/\/talkleft.com\/new_archives\/006634.html\">TalkLeft<\/A>&nbsp;that Colin Powell has <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/05\/18#a1499\">already<\/A> told the nation that we would pull out American troops&nbsp;when the new Iraqi government asks us to do so.&nbsp; All the vagueness about a withdrawal timetable will just make it easier&nbsp;for the Aministration to say it&#8217;s surprised when the new government asks us to leave, and we &#8220;reluctantly&#8221; acquiesce to their full sovereignty.<\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; In his thirty-minute speech tonight, President George W. Bush did nothing to squelch the rumors (started here) that his current Exit Strategy is to find a transitional government that will ask for a pull-out of all coalition forces after June 30th.&nbsp; Indeed, he stressed that the new government would have &#8220;full sovereignty,&#8221; while giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1gd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13802,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions\/13802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}