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...more united than they had ever been on the war. They agreed that President Bush has been, as Dick Gephardt said, a "miserable failure" in the postwar period. All the major candidates favored a deal with the U.N. to bring more foreign troops into the peacekeeping operations; none counseled retreat. But a minor candidate, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, threw down a wildly provocative challenge: "We should bring the troops home now." This, I fear, is a position with a future. Many polls are showing significant public ambivalence about America's commitment to rebuild Iraq--and a clear-cut desire to spend...
Last week the President restated the obvious: retreat is not an option. Iraq cannot be left an anarchic, terrorist state. Every major Democrat running for President, including Howard Dean, agrees--and most go further than Bush, asserting that more money and manpower are needed to secure the peace. But the President has stubbornly resisted sharing with the American people a detailed assessment of the situation in Iraq: the fact that we may still be there a decade from now at a cost of hundreds of billions. The Pentagon--the civilian leadership of the Pentagon, that is--stubbornly insists that...
...being greeted by the views I was met by a horde of local men. As the only foreign tourist and woman in sight, I myself became, by neat irony, the photo opportunity. Dodging the inevitable "Coming from where?" and other, less-delicate conversational gambits, I beat a diplomatic retreat...
University President Lawrence H. Summers and the deans of Harvard’s schools heard the plan at their annual retreat at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...There will be no retreat." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, in a speech to the American Legion in St. Louis, Missouri, on the U.S. occupation of Iraq...