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...government is racing against time--it has just seven months before scheduled elections to convince ordinary citizens that the anti-jihad fight is theirs. "We have to do that," says Saleh. "Convince Iraqis that this should be a war of the government and people against the terrorists." And accomplish what the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) could not. According to the New York Times, a senior CPA official who returned last week to Washington confesses that in the past 15 months, U.S. intelligence hasn't cracked the insurgency's command and control or eroded its strength. "Our intelligence on this stuff...
...even as he prepares to exit, Bremer continues to stick to the script. "If you go back and look at what has been accomplished, I would say that we have [done] almost everything we set out to accomplish at liberation," he told TIME. "[President Bush and Prime Minister Blair] had a vision of an Iraq that was stable, pluralistic, democratic, at peace with itself--and we have accomplished most of that. There are still problems with security, of course, and I expect there will continue to be problems with security...
...training, deeming it too strenuous, she threatened to run away from home. Now Ponor is training even harder, cramming up to six hours of exercise into a single day. Her mother would not think again of asking her to leave training, says Ponor. "Now she knows I have to accomplish my dream...
...than a decade, voters chose a President who was nearly 70 when he took office, a kind of living time capsule of the American Century, born before the phrase world war had been introduced, a child when the Russian Revolution gave birth to the empire whose defeat he would accomplish as President. Somehow it took America's oldest President to make the country feel young again, its mission not yet completed, its glory days ahead...
...goal was to finish third in the Ivy League,” Chiampa said. “We can say that we knew we could do it, but until you actually accomplish it, it’s a monkey on your back...