White House Meeting on Plan to Restore Self-Rule in Iraq
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 16, 2004
Filed at 8:31 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States will revise its plan to create self-rule in Iraq, the U.S. administrator said Friday after consultations with President Bush, but he rejected postponement of a June 30 deadline for ending the occupation and handing over power.
"The Iraqi people are anxious to get sovereignty back, and we are not anxious to extend our period of occupation,'' the administrator, L. Paul Bremer, said after conferring at the White House with Bush and senior U.S. officials.
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