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Monday, April 12, 2004

Battle for Iraqi Hearts and Minds Suspended in Face of Escalating Resistance

The Democratic criticism was to be expected, but Bush should be more concerned with some of the talk coming from his usually loyal right-wing commentators.

Perhaps the best known of them, Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly, was running out of patience, he told his audience last week, making a comparison between Vietnam and an Iraq where Americans increasingly fight on behalf of a population that will not help itself.

'If these people won't help us, we need to get out in an orderly manner,' O'Reilly said. 'If, come next October, Iraq continues to be a big mess, President Bush might very well lose the election.

'Mr. Bush and his advisers must know that. And that's why there's still a chance that the Iraqi radicals will be beaten.

'But time is running out, both for Iraq and for the Bush administration.'

O'Reilly warns the Bushians. O'Reilly still thinks the war was a grand idea, he just doesn't like the way the Bushians are conducting it.

Jack Clark 8:23 PM [+]   
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