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

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (757129)	1/11/2007 10:38:51 AM
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Some remarks bump up against reality Chicago Sun-Times January 11, 2007 (http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/206732,CST-NWS-bushfact11.article) Here's a rundown on what Bush said -- and where reality gets in the way. • Bush declared ''al-Qaida is still active in Iraq,'' and a failed U.S. mission would give such terrorists a safe haven. Although few quarrel with that appraisal now, it is also the case that Iraq -- contrary to assertions at the time -- was not a magnet for al-Qaida before the U.S. invasion. • Bush proposed $414 million to double the number of U.S. civilian workers for reconstruction projects. However, the special inspector general for Iraq said violence impedes reconstruction. The report quoted Iraq's minister of electricity: ''Every day I send repair teams, but they can't get to the area; there are too many insurgents.'' • Bush declared that when U.S. and Iraqi forces sweep insurgents out of Baghdad neighborhoods this time, they won't just rush back in. ''This time, we have the force levels we need to hold the areas that have been cleared,'' he said. But whether that will happen is unknowable. AP