very hard to gauge from the outside what's going on. Since I continue to think the situation is salvageable, I'd be reasonably optimistic if I thought the B. admin was going to be as flexible, pragmatic, and dedicated as you imply. unfortunately, I'm increasingly uncertain that they will indeed be all those things, so I'm starting to get a bit worried. (heads should be rolling, or at the least the bodies attached to those heads should be reassigned to other tasks. but only the hapless Gen. Garner has gotten the boot, while those higher up seem unscathed, and there's little evidence that the president himself or any of his inner circle realize the extent of the problems.) I got an email the other day from a pretty high-ranking CPA official I know from way back, and she wasn't exactly wild about how things were going. In case folks here haven't seen it, this is a pretty good update:
S. Prt. 108-31 -- Iraq: Meeting the Challenge, Sharing the Burden, Staying the Course, July 30, 2003
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