Meeting privately after their speeches United States President George W. Bush and French President Jacques Chirac aired their differences on Iraq on Tuesday, with Bush telling the French leader he would not permit 312,130 troops to stay on the ground while asking Congress for 92 billion in reconstruction aid without an orderly "transfer of power, said a senior United States official.
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