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

To: jlallen who wrote (614326)	8/30/2004 7:22:14 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The Canadians are nasty tonight...Redfish is downright vile as well.

To: jlallen who wrote (614326)	8/31/2004 2:22:00 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Iraq success 'catastrophic': Bush Roy Eccleston in New York 31aug04 GEORGE W. Bush has admitted the US failed to plan for a speedy victory in Iraq, describing the sudden collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime as a "catastrophic success". In a rare concession from the President, who dislikes admitting error, Mr Bush told Time magazine that his planners had not considered the prospect of a quick collapse. "Had we to do it over again, we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success – being so successful, so fast, that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in, escaped and lived to fight another day," he said. Mr Bush sought to blame the prolonged war – in which 969 US troops have been killed so far – on an over-quick victory that meant the US ended up having to fight "a third more" of Hussein's Baathist supporters than military planners had expected. Democrat vice-presidential candidate John Edwards seized on the comment, made as the President prepares for a high-profile week with the Republican Party's national convention in New York. "President Bush now says his Iraq policy is a catastrophic success," Senator Edwards said yesterday. "He's half right. It was catastrophic to rush to war without a plan to win the peace." theaustralian.news.com.au