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AP通信

...Secretary of State Colin Powell sounded more open to the idea, telling National Public Radio the administration was looking at such historic models as the U.S. occupation of Germany after World War II and a U.S. military government in Japan at war's end.

He said if U.S. troops were to go into Iraq, there would be ``an immediate need for some presence until you could put in place a better system.''


Anti-Saddam Iraqis and the Arab League objected.

``We were told by American officials that they want a broad-based Iraqi government ... with no direct American role,'' said Hamid al-Bayati, a representative of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a Shiite-led opposition group.

Bush did not directly address the issue, although he said at an event promoting U.S. efforts in Afghanistan that the United States has ``a history of liberating, not conquering.'' ...

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