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Fri 03 Mar 2003Pentagon faces war lasting months rather than weeks
The Pentagon is now facing the prospect of the US-led war against Iraq lasting months rather than weeks as originally planned, with an assault on Baghdad postponed for many days to allow time for reinforcements to arrive. Conor O'Clery, North America Editor, reports from New York.
This was the grim military assessment confronting President Bush and the British Prime Minister, Mr Blair, at their meeting in Camp David outside Washington yesterday. Both leaders pledged Iraqi president Saddam Hussein would be ousted, however long it took.
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