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...difficult problem, and quite the opposite of Kerry's. He got us into this mess. He has continually explained the war in platitudes. His imprecise idealism is not only inappropriate now, but has become downright annoying. His five-point plan is built on the quicksand of Ambassador L. Paul Bremer's failed seven-point plan-and it bears little resemblance to the emerging realities on the ground. The truth is, we are in full-scale retreat, both politically and militarily. Bush believes that Iraq is the front line in the war on terrorism, but his Administration just declared a truce...
COVER: Photomontage by Arthur Hochstein BUSH, BROOKS KRAFT; WITMER SISTERS, MICHAEL SEARS-POOL--GETTY IMAGES; MYERS, JASON REED--REUTERS; IRAQI WOMAN, KHAMPHA BOUAPHANH--ABACA PRESS; BREMER, ROBERTO SCHMIDT--AFP/GETTY IMAGES; PRISONER, AP; SOLDIER, AKRAM SALEH--REUTERS; TAGUBA, ALEX WONG--GETTY IMAGES; HUMVEE, ALI ABBAS--EPA; BERG, AP; ENGLAND, AP; RUMSFELD, JIM MACMILLAN...
...Paul Bremer, life in Iraq right now is very much like being trapped in a game of Asteroids. The game opens with large asteroids tumbling languidly through space around the player's gunship; shooting one breaks it into smaller chunks, and each time a bullet hits one of those chunks it breaks into even smaller meteorites - each of which can destroy the gunship. To complicate matters, a foreign element in the form of a rival space gunship periodically charges across the screen firing at your own. That's very much like the situation in Iraq as the U.S. hurtles toward...
...plan been tried a year ago than they are today. While there has been substantial, if mixed, progress in the physical reconstruction of Iraq, a year of occupation has done little to lay the political and institutional foundations for Iraqi democracy. The Iraqi Governing Council, the body handpicked by Bremer to represent Iraqis in a transition to democracy has failed to develop legitimacy, or even to function as an effective steward of a transition process. A year later, the U.S. - this time with help from the UN - is looking to reboot a more clearly scripted transition, with firm deadlines...
...recording, he offered rewards of 10,000 grams of gold worth $125,000 for the killing of either L. Paul Bremer, Kofi Annan or his envoy to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi...