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For the first time, the Bush administration is beginning to publicly discuss basing American troops in Iraq for years, even decades to come, a subject so fraught with political landmines that officials are tiptoeing around the inevitable questions about what the United States' long-term mission would be there.

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TechnologyExpert
June 2, 2007, 11:09 p.m.
President Bush has long talked about the need to maintain an American military presence in the region, without saying exactly where. Several visitors to the White House say that in private, he has sounded intrigued by what he calls the "Korea model," a reference to the large American presence in South Korea for the 54 years since the armistice that ended open hostilities between North and South.
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hamy
June 3, 2007, 2:29 p.m.
Wow. The big "secret" is finally out of the bag. At least he now will admit it. That is whole thing is based on the Korean war.