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...that is where the danger lies for the Bush presidency. While continued turmoil in Iraq could begin to erode the public's faith in the President's honesty, it could also do something equally damaging: resurrect the public's pre-9/11 doubts about his competence. Not so long ago, voters seemed to believe that Bush's success in war meant he could lick any problem, from the economy to healthcare reform. But here's the flip side: qualms about his management of postwar Iraq could turn into doubts about all his policies. By nearly 2 to 1, Americans still...
...more than happy to have the debate," says a senior Administration official. Vice President Dick Cheney urged House Republicans to mount a more vigorous defense of Bush, and the White House sent lawmakers a list of talking points titled "Why Saddam Hussein Was a Grave and Gathering Danger." But officials concede that their trump card would be to produce some surefire evidence that Iraq is moving toward becoming the stable, peaceful and friendly place they promised it would be. "This is more answered by successes or changes in the landscape in Iraq--an arrest or some movement or change," says...
...indeed spoken to management about leaving the area because of water, he says--not the millions of gallons in the abandoned mine but increasing amounts of groundwater. "I wanted to move off because it was slowing us down, and not really that it was a danger...
...well. In June the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan seized two major Uzan-owned utilities in southern Turkey for breaching energy regulations, and in July the country's independent banking regulator took over the Uzans' flagship bank, Imar Bank, noting it was "not meeting its responsibilities and posed a danger to the banking system." The five Uzan TV stations were briefly ordered off the air in July for violating broadcasting laws forbidding media owners from using their networks to promote their own political or business interests, and Cem himself is barred from leaving the country because of the bank imbroglio...
...they have not necessarily been as averse to fratricidal violence - Sadr supporters are blamed for killing a prominent pro-U.S. Shiite cleric at Najaf in the last days of the war, and the Pentagon's consultants warn that "internal fighting between rival factions" may become a danger to the coalition's work...