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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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From: longnshort3/7/2005 11:18:49 AM
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Changes in Mideast blunt Bush's critics:

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, one of the most strident opponents of the administration, said yesterday that President Bush deserved credit for what seems to be a tentative awakening of democracy in the region.

''What's taken place in a number of those countries is enormously constructive," the Massachusetts Democrat said on the ABC news program ''This Week."

''It's a reflection the president has been involved."

As recently as six weeks ago, in a speech at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, Kennedy was far more confrontational.

''We have reached the point that a prolonged American military presence in Iraq is no longer productive for either Iraq or the United States," he said, calling for a phased US withdrawal and comparing the ongoing involvement in Iraq with the quagmire the United States found itself in a generation ago in Vietnam.

But yesterday, Kennedy's comments, in both tone and content, amounted to a striking recalibration of his earlier stance.

... in part

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