Bush: "Precipitous withdrawal from Iraq is not a plan to bring peace to the region"

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“Precipitous withdrawal from Iraq is not a plan to bring peace to the region or to make our people safer at home,” Bush said. “It could unleash chaos in Iraq that could spread across the entire region. It would be an invitation to the enemy to attack America and our friends around the world.”

Hamas fighters take homemade missiles from Preventive Security headquarters after they captured it in Gaza June 14, 2007. Hamas fighters on Thursday captured one of the last Gaza City bastions of forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Green Islamist flags fluttered from the rooftop of the Preventive Security headquarters in Gaza City -- a powerful symbol to residents that Hamas had taken control after five days of bloodshed in which more than 80 people have been killed. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA)


Turkish soldiers take part in a military exercise in the town of Cizre, some 10 km from the Turkish-Iraqi border, 08 June 2007. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has indicated he would resist calls from the influential military for an incursion into neighbouring northern Iraq to pursue Turkish Kurd rebels taking refuge there.(AFP/File)



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In this photo released by the Israeli Aerospace Industries, the Ofek 7 satellite is launched from the Israeli Air Force test range at the Palmakhim military base, in this early Monday, June 11, 2007 file photo. Israel's sophisticated new spy satellite has begun transmitting images from space, the defense ministry said in a statement Thursday, June 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Israeli Aerospace Industries, HO)


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