Saturday, April 10, 2004

"The president and his White House aides have not
> changed their public claims that the uprising in Iraq
> is the work of a relatively small number of extremists
> who will inevitably be crushed. But, in private, Bush
> is apparently expressing a more grim view. According
> to the Kremlin, he placed a 20-minute call to Russian
> President Vladimir Putin yesterday, and "serious
> distress was expressed" about the "escalation of
> violence." Bush aides refused to discuss the details
> of the conversation.
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> While the White House has been sanguine about the
> turmoil in Iraq, some of its allies are calling for a
> more frank acknowledgment of trouble. Kenneth Adelman,
> a Reagan administration official who is close to
> several Bush officials, said he is surprised that
> "it's a lot tougher slogging than I expected" in Iraq.
> He said Bush should make new overtures both to
> Democrats and to traditional allies urging them to
> condemn the violence. He should tell them that "now is
> not the time to say I told you so,
and urge the allies
> to become more heavily involved," he said."
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> Adelman is one of these neoconservative pricks. You
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> (I just kept hitting CTRL-V, I didn't go all Jack
> Nicholson on you)