Bush said he also believed that the U.S. would develop a bilateral strategic agreement relationship with Iraq, a pact now under negotiation.

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Ray Odierno, the top U.S. military official in Iraq, issued a statement welcoming the passage of the security pact and the strategic framework agreement -- which covers a wide range of bilateral cooperation efforts.

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He signed a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (or START agreement) that cut the permissible number of strategic warheads to a quarter of what had been allowed in the original 1991 START pact.

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