US Preparing for Continued, Longterm Presence in Iraq

clipped from blogs.abcnews.com Even as presidential candidates debate how quickly to withdraw American forces from Iraq, the U.S. government bureaucracy appears to be preparing for a longer slog there. Contracting documents show the Pentagon and State Department are looking to hire "mentors" for Iraqi government officials, security personnel to protect Iraqi judges, linguists, and food service for a new U.S.-run prison, according to the Washington Post's Walter Pincus.

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The contracts run for a year, and offer up to four subsequent "option years," if the U.S. government decides to use the services that long. The documents illustrate how deeply involved the American government has become in bolstering Iraqi civil society -- and underscore "the difficulty the next president will face in pulling personnel out of the country," Pincus writes.

Remember, there's a still a war on, people