Bush's Iraq: almost unrecognizable: David Sarasohn

Bush's Iraq: almost unrecognizable

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"Someday soon, President Bush will have to give a major speech on Iraq. Because the country he talked about in Monday night's speech doesn't look at all like it. And the president seems determined not to notice.

The Iraq that bleeds all over our newspapers and TV screens all day is a place of bitter, brutal divisions that go back hundreds of years and seem to be getting deeper daily. But in the country the president talked about, "Iraqis are united in a broad and deep conviction. They're determined never again to live at the mercy of a dictator. And they believe that a national election will put that dark time behind them."

Admittedly, the president boasts that he doesn't read the newspapers, and the secretary of defense says he doesn't, either. But somehow, Bush's view of a country "united in a deep and broad conviction" about freedom and elections needs at least a border on the country where violence has been increasing steadily for months."

Bush's Iraq: almost unrecognizable

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thanks

as ambassador to Bagdad, so he can see firsthand how well everything has gone and so he can enjoy the gratitude of the Iraqi people.

It's a job so hopeless even George won't look too bad in it.