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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: laura_bush who wrote (450168)	8/29/2003 10:48:27 AM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 769667

WASHINGTON -- In only the last week, the war in Iraq has entered a phase characterized by two amazingly contradictory developments. First, it is generally accepted (except by the war's avid authorities) that the reasons for invading Iraq were false. Second, the war party around the White House and the Pentagon are responding to their incredible failures of judgment not by modifying their policies in the Middle East, but by doing more and still more of the same. And in one of those bizarre turns of history, their acts have brought them (and us) within a hair's breadth of creating exactly the situation they claimed forced us to go to war in the first place. No one believes anymore that there were ties in the beginning between the Iraqi regime and al-Qaida (in fact, their beliefs and their interests were antithetical). But with the now-daily attacks on Americans and others in Iraq, plus a sense that Iraq is becoming the international center for terrorists, even American generals say the old secular Saddam Baathists and the religious al-Qaida militants are working together... uexpress.com CC