Word: ghraib
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President Bush is now in danger of the furor over the Abu Ghraib prison horrors engulfing U.S. strategy toward Iraq at the very moment he faces huge last-chance political and military decisions there...
...don’t want to sound too paranoid or cynical. After all, the last few months have also witnessed some first-rate investigative reporting into the Abu Ghraib scandal by the New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh, and 60 Minutes II. But journalists who cross the White House should be forewarned—this is an Administration known for blacklisting its perceived enemies in the press corps, withholding interviews and other goodies. You can hardly blame journalists for worrying that an indiscrete article or bit of footage might land them out on the street, looking for work with...
Public support for the war was close to the tipping point when images surfaced of U.S. troops giving highly unconventional readings of the Geneva Conventions at Abu Ghraib. In an instant, a handful of Army troopers and their military-intelligence minders had put at risk one of the last remaining justifications for invasion in the first place: to help the Iraqi people. Watching it all unfold, it has been hard to dismiss the fear that the U.S. not only might be failing to make America safer but might be doing the opposite. Republicans following Bush's shrinking numbers this month...
...talk to the Pentagon boss--and with his boss, if he happens to stop by. That is exactly what happened last week when Central Command chief General John Abizaid, appearing via videophone from Qatar, admitted that he was worried about the political fallout back home from the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal. Hearing this, George W. Bush peered back at Abizaid, who oversees two continuing wars in Asia, and told him to ignore the static. "You worry about getting the job done," Bush said. "You let me worry about the politics and the things back here...
...Clausewitz said war is politics by other means, it was almost impossible to tell where one stopped and the other began. As casualties in Iraq continue to mount--782 Americans have died there in the past 15 months, 12 in the past week--and the twisted images from Abu Ghraib are posted and reposted on websites by the U.S.'s critics around the globe, a growing number of voters are having second thoughts about Bush's instinctive brand of leadership. For the first time since his election, more Americans disapprove than approve of his handling of his job, according...