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...abdication of personal responsibility--on torture, on the war in Iraq (in which authority was transferred first to Cheney and then to David Petraeus), on the regulation of major economic institutions and, of course, after Hurricane Katrina--will come to be seen, I suspect, as the defining failure of George W. Bush as President. One hundred years from now, historians will scratch their heads and ask themselves the same question that plagues Alice Blackwell: How did this amiable but feckless man ever get to be President? Curtis Sittenfeld has provided a plausible secret history of an American embarrassment...
...Iraq Returning Anbar to The Iraqis On Sept. 1, U.S. military commanders handed over control of Anbar province to Iraqi forces, a major sign of progress in a region that has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers since the war began. The move puts 11 of the nation's 18 provinces under Iraqi control. Yet the transition of Anbar, once a stronghold of al-Qaeda and the heartland of Iraq's Sunni insurgency, also underscores the changed nature of the U.S. role in Iraq. Though President Bush roundly rejected nation-building when he took office eight...
...IRAQ Anbar...
...disapproval rating is the most feared disease in politics, rare and highly contagious. Bush contracted it after Katrina stripped his immunity and the germs swept in: Iraq, foreclosures, $4 gas. So you can't blame the GOP for trying to seal away its afflicted leader like the boy in the bubble. From now on, candidates in swing states won't go near him without a mask, gloves and a bottle of Purell. John McCain, the party's nominee, is promising to fumigate Washington. Add one more metaphor of sickness: the lame duck...
Bush has no hope but to heal himself. As the price of oil floated downward, as Iraq's Anbar province, formerly a charnel house, returned to local control, as another September arrived with no cities flooded or towers destroyed, his vital signs improved slightly. Too little and too late for this political cycle, but beyond that lie the low hills of Texas, out of the storms, and a quiet wait for history's verdict...