Iraq won't be another Korea, says Bush

President George Bush says he doesn’t envisage a long-time presence of US troops in Iraq similar to post-World War II deployments in Europe and South Korea that continue today.

President George Bush says he doesn’t envisage a long-time presence of US troops in Iraq similar to post-World War II deployments in Europe and South Korea that continue today.

“I think the Iraqi people want us to leave once we’ve helped them get on the path of stability and democracy and once we have trained their troops to do their own hard work,” Bush said.

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