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...troubles, a MORI poll published Sunday showed a four-point drop for Labour, to 32%, meaning the Conservatives are in the lead (at 33%) for the first time in years - and the Liberal Democrats are up four points to 25%, which puts Labour in a two-front battle next spring that could turn out far closer than many have predicted. On every front, Iraq's problems are lapping higher for Blair. Two weeks ago, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan bluntly declared the war illegal. The Iraq Survey Group is shortly expected to report formally that the weapons of mass destruction...
...faces a two-front insurgency. It stretches from restive cities west of Baghdad, such as Fallujah and Ramadi, to the Shi'ite provinces of southern Iraq, where until last week the U.S. believed it enjoyed the grudging support of a populace grateful that Saddam sits in a jail cell, awaiting trial for his crimes. There are signs that the siege in Fallujah and the resistance among those loyal to al-Sadr have united the traditionally fractious Shi'ites and Sunnis against a common enemy. In Baghdad half of those who joined a caravan carrying supplies to the mostly Sunni residents...
...modest rise in troop strength may not be enough to fight a two-front insurgency, prepare the way for elections and resume the reconstruction of Iraq, which was thrown into upheaval by the violence last week. Those calling for an even bigger force point to a historical comparison: in Northern Ireland, the ratio of British police and troops to civilians at the conflict's height was 20 per 1,000; a comparable U.S. presence in Iraq would require 500,000 troops. That might well be what it would take in Iraq, but the U.S. has almost nowhere to turn...
...This has been tough weeks on Bush, too. He?s had his own two-front war - against the insinuation from Richard Clarke that he was caught unawares about September 11 and against charges that he?d driven the country into an Iraqi sandtrap. Bush?s goal was to correct that impression, to look tough and unwavering. (His critics might say that?s the problem.) He ended his speech-cum-press conference with a none too subtle jab at John Kerry, noting ?when I say something, I mean...
...resistance in Fallujah that has shocked U.S. officials in Iraq. The Shiite insurrection launched by the radical cleric Moqtada Sadr has proven surprisingly tenacious, and U.S. military actions against Sadr supporters in the Shiite slums of Baghdad have also provoked widespread outrage in Iraq's majority ethnic community. The two-front insurrection and the tough response by the U.S. has even had an ironic nation-building effect, as the plight of the besieged city has become an anti-American rallying point across Iraq's traditional Sunni-Shiite divide. Thousands of impoverished Shiites in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood have stepped...