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See other International News Articles Title: if the Iraqis do not make further progress toward stemming the violence by the end of the year, the U.S. Congress would have to make bold decisions
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URL Source: http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-10-05-voa68.cfm
Published: Oct 5, 2006
Author: voanews
Post Date: 2006-10-05 23:38:26 by TLBSHOW
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The committee chairman, Republican Senator John Warner of Virginia, offered his bleakest assessment of Iraq to date. "To summarize it, it seems to me the situation is simply drifting sidewise," he said. Warner says if the Iraqis do not make further progress toward stemming the violence by the end of the year, the U.S. Congress would have to make what he called bold decisions. He said all options would be considered, but did not elaborate further. Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, believes the Bush administration should set a timetable to begin a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq to "force" the Iraqis to recognize that they must take more responsibility to change the situation in their country. "Unless they face up to the fact that they must make those political compromises, this is just going to be an endless quagmire for U.S. troops," he said. But Senator Warner opposes setting a timeline for a U.S. troop withdrawal. "I am convinced we need to do everything we can to maintain the stability of this government, and put all pressure that we possibly can, recognizing that they are a sovereign nation, to get them to move forward more aggressively and do the job of a government; because if that government were to fail, if Iraq would devolve into a civil war, the consequences are frightful, not just for the Iraqi people, but for the whole region, and indeed for the whole world, because it would be viewed by the terrorists as a victory," he said.
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