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[Kanai.net] Gen Kanai weblog: Ron Suskind on G. W. Bush: In the summer of 2002, after I [author/reporter Ron Suskind] had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

 [Motherjones.com] MotherJones.com | MoJo Blog - Social Issues and Political Commentary: The presence at the antiwar rally of Jane Fonda, who emerged as the major personage of the day, immediately linked the Iraq conflict to Vietnam, and she made that plain in her speech, citing: "Blindness to realities on the ground, hubris... thoughtlessness in our approach to rebuilding a country we've destroyed." The Vietnam parallel in fact presents a history lesson for those depending on Congress to get us out of Iraq: One Democratic Congress after another backed the Vietnam War.

 [Spaces.icgpartners.com] ICG Spaces - community weblog - Demeanor aside, it's hard to ...: While I would not go so far as McMahon's Resetting U.S. Policy in the Middle East in saying that the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG) report is creating "an intense round of consultations" within the administration, I do agree that Bush43 is "hearing from top advisers and Iraqi leaders that the path to this goal involves everything from "surging" U.S. military forces into the country to massive increases in reconstruction aid to turning over large areas of control to Iraqi forces" but in the absence of extreme outside drivers expect changes "to be tactical rather than tectonic." If that conclusion is correct, I expect the regional situation in Iraq and Iran to deteriorate for the administration.

[Danieldrezner.com] danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: Thoughts on Paul O'Neill: And in recent weeks he's been peddling to administration officials recommendations gleaned from a policy paper titled, aptly enough, "Iraq: Time for a Modified Approach." Written last month by Meghan O'Sullivan, who worked for Haass at the Brookings Institution, the brief for softening the sanctions regime neatly anticipates almost every utterance Powell has made recently about Iraq--from his insistence that loosening the embargo will dispel Arab anger to the old canard that "there is linkage to the situation between the Israelis and Palestinians." Bush, of course, inherited Haass from his father's Middle East team. And, with him, he's inheriting its worst inclinations.

 [Washingtonpost.com] Dan Froomkin - Bush Tells a Tale - washingtonpost.com: Gordon write: "A narrative pieced together from interviews with participants and from public testimony suggests that through much of the process, generals who had been on the ground in Iraq during the past year had favored that the new strategy begin with a substantially smaller force than the one that President Bush announced to the nation on Wednesday night. In the end, it was Mr.

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