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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: pompsander who wrote (755701)	12/6/2006 12:03:25 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Bush's only valid choice: Change course Mercury News Editorial Robert Gates admitted Tuesday what President Bush has refused to admit and what fired Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld would concede only in a leaked classified memo: The United States is failing to win the war in Iraq. Gates' blunt acknowledgment, at his Senate confirmation hearing to replace Rumsfeld, adds pressure on a stubborn president to change tactics, including a new diplomatic initiative he has spurned. The options offered to him -- by Rumsfeld, the military chiefs of staff and the Iraq Study Group, which issues its report today -- are varied and sometimes incompatible. There is no clear path toward reversing the bleak situation in Iraq anytime soon. The United States no longer has leverage in Baghdad. Shiites and Sunnis are now in a civil war impervious to U.S. influence. Gates' nomination is assured because he isn't tied to the blunders in Iraq and so is believable when he promises to take a ``fresh look.'' His big challenge will be to convince a president stuck on ``staying the course.'' mercurynews.com

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