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9:34 AM, Aug 3, 2006 • By DANIEL MCKIVERGAN

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You can bet this will some get attention when Secretary Rumsfeld goes before the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning. If the BBC has the full text of the leaked memo, why not provide readers with the entire document (redacting where appropriate)? And if the BBC report is accurate, the former British ambassador to Iraq is arguing precisely against the policy advocated by the Democratic leadership in the U.S.

[The] memo cautioned against making any swift repatriation of troops, stressing that talk of pulling out of Iraq would weaken the position of coalition soldiers who remain.

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