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...surge. Nothing was more demoralizing last year to supporters of the war than the sense that Bush was refusing to alter course out of misguided loyalty to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and General George Casey. The ouster of Rumsfeld and Casey and the announcement of a new strategy backed up by additional troops and a new commander, General David Petraeus, gave hope to those who still think success is possible in Iraq--which, polls show, is still a healthy majority of Republicans...
...contrast seems stark. Tommy Franks, the Army general who as chief of Central Command scuttled Anthony Zinni's more robust war plan and agreed with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that invasion-lite was the way to go, got the Presidential Medal of Freedom. So did former CIA chief George ("Slam Dunk") Tenet and L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer, who as Iraqi viceroy fired the entire Iraqi army, a move now widely seen as laying the groundwork for a sustained insurgency...
...obsessed is Kristol with marginal missteps by Democrats that he loses sight of the big picture. Kristol wrote that Bush "crossed up Democrats" by replacing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and rejecting the Iraq Study Group's change in strategy. The political maneuver might be nice sport, providing the Administration with a few moments of relief. But Kristol failed to point out that Bush continues to lose the only battle that counts - the one in Iraq. Sanford Rubin Rochester, New York...
...been written about whether McCain's stubborn support of the war is weighing him down this time. I don't think so. He really believes in his position on Iraq. He has favored more troops since the beginning; he was one of the very first Republicans to criticize Donald Rumsfeld. He could get away with this hawkishness--perhaps even be celebrated for it--if he were still the McCain of 2000. But now he's the guy who, yes, flip-flopped on Bush's tax cuts, voting against them in 2001 and for extending them last year...
...obsessed is Kristol with marginal missteps by Democrats that he loses sight of the big picture. Kristol wrote that Bush "crossed up Democrats" by replacing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and rejecting the Iraq Study Group's change in strategy. The political maneuver might be nice sport, providing the Administration with a few moments of relief. But Kristol failed to point out that Bush continues to lose the only battle that counts - the one in Iraq. Sanford Rubin Rochester, New York...