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2008-10-12 06:38:00
With a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) nearing, we may finally be able to see a stable, peaceful, secure and prosperous Iraq, alongside our other important allies there, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi, UAE, Kuwait and Israel. It will certainly change the dynamics of the entire region.
Almost 60 years after WWII and the Korean Conflict, American forces are still in Germany, Japan and Korea — not as liberators or occupiers, but as friends who help friends. I see the same relationship with Iraq 60 years from now. George Bush, Tony Blair, former Spain prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar and Portuguese prime minister Jose Manuel Barosso, are the architects and the visionaries who should get all the credit for this strategic triumph.
