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...final straw for al-Maliki may be the fact that the guarantors of his power - the Bush administration - have lost confidence in him. Reports on Wednesday say National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley told Bush in a classified memo that the Iraqi Prime Minister was isolated, out of touch with reality and unable to affect the course of events...
...impressed me as a leader who wanted to be strong but was having difficulty figuring out how to do so," Hadley said, according to an extract of the memo published by the New York Times. "But the reality on the streets of Baghdad suggests Maliki is either ignorant of what is going on, misrepresenting his intentions or that his capabilities are not yet sufficient to turn his good intentions into actions...
...whatever one chooses to call it; the salient point is that Iraq has spun so dangerously out of control that existing policies appear to offer no way out of the mayhem. The pre-meeting atmosphere was clouded by the publication, in the New York Times, of a memo from National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley that questions Maliki's commitment and capability to take the steps the U.S. deems necessary to turn things around. The document sets out a U.S. prescription for Maliki's government that may be no more realistic than the optimistic projections with which the Administration went into...
...Tuesday, President Kaczynski will travel to Riga to meet with George W. Bush and other leaders to discuss missions in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Memo to POTUS: he is the one with the mole on his cheek. Or is that Jaroslaw...
...campaign's closing day, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman sent supporters a cheery memo labeled simply "Momentum," pointing to a variety of independent national polls that suggest a tightening in the G.O.P.'s favor. "Republican enthusiasm is growing," he says, adding graphs and data contending the party is "picking up more swing votes." The memo says the party's turnout machine, the vaunted "72-Hour Program," reached 3 million voters on Saturday alone...