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...Exit Signs Re "5 Ways to Prevent Iraq from Getting Even Worse" [Oct. 30]: Your recommendations contained one major flaw. They would be implemented by an Administration that has proved its total incompetence. The U.S. is part of the problem, not the solution. Only an approach that transfers all decision making to non-Americans has any hope of success. Ideally, that would mean Iraqis, but the current situation is so chaotic that external assistance is a necessity. President George W. Bush and his cronies have messed up so badly that the only reasonable first step is a U.S. mea culpa...
...pursuing a diplomatic exit strategy that involves more help from Middle Eastern allies like Saudi Arabia and Egypt? Their interests certainly supersede ours, in that the tens of thousands of people who have been killed are their neighbors and not the U.S.'s. The war and attendant issues?its effect on the U.S. image abroad, oil business and humanitarian concerns?would be better handled by the regional powers on our side. Bruce Schulte Ardmore, Oklahoma...
...Cheney Gives No Ground I was chilled and appalled by Vice President Dick Cheney's glib answers to TIME's interview questions [Oct. 30]. His comments related to the debacle in Iraq?"We're not looking for an exit strategy. We're looking for victory"?reflected the stubborn disconnect from reality that has characterized the Bush Administration's prosecution of the war. How much longer will Americans allow our leaders to repeat the tired and disingenuous rhetoric that ignores the depressing reality in Iraq? Mark Wardlaw Santa Rosa, California...
...making the national-security fixes recommended by the 9/11 commission. Then there is the biggest issue of all, now that the Democrats are partners in governing and not just critics: charting a course on Iraq. Hoyer insists the phased withdrawal he supports is not all that different from the exit strategy that Murtha and Pelosi are pushing, but his victory tells Pelosi her caucus members will not tolerate her getting too far ahead of them...
...Speaker will also be under more pressure to push through lobbying and ethics reform but may find that harder to accomplish. After an election in which exit polls showed that voters are more concerned about corruption than the Iraq war, Pelosi needs to recover the high ground she lost with her endorsement of Murtha, who said he thought her reform measures were "total crap." It was bad enough that Murtha's candidacy turned the cable-news networks into a film festival of the grainy tapes from the Abscam sting in 1980, in which the Pennsylvania Congressman told an agent posing...