The US President insisted yesterday he had a strategy for defeating the deadly insurgency in Iraq but Democrats said the war was threatening to descend into a quagmire.
George W. Bush said he had a two-track plan that involved training Iraqis to handle more of their own security, and helping them develop a stable democracy.
"Our military strategy is clear: We will train Iraqi security forces so they can defend their freedom ... and then our troops will return home with the honour they have earned," he said in his weekly radio address. "The political track ... is to continue helping Iraqis build the institutions of a stable democracy."
But Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to Jimmy Carter, repeated an assertion by Democrat Senator Edward Kennedy that the Iraq war was turning into a quagmire.
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