Lieutenant General Doug Lute’s hearing will probably be most memorable for how it raised doubt as to Steve Hadley’s job as national security adviser. Just before the hearing ended, however, Lute offered a new iteration of the administration’s line on the most controversial issue of all: permanent military bases. Lute said that “we don’t seek this,” but desire instead “a more normalized nation-to-nation relationship” with Iraq:
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