National Strategy for Victory in Iraq

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"The only way our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons of September the 11th, if we abandon the Iraqi people to men like Zarqawi, and if we yield the future of the Middle East to men like Bin Laden. For the sake of our nation's security, this will not happen on my watch."

-- President George W. Bush
June 28, 2005 I THINK WE CAN ALL USE A REFRESHER COURSE: http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/iraq_strategy_nov2005.html

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Posted GMT 6-3-2006 21:7:26
WHEN HAFEZ AL-ASSAD was president-for-life of Syria, Washington overlooked the misdeeds of his Baathist dictatorship because it always seemed the brass ring of a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace deal was just around the corner. Now that Assad is dead and his son Bashar nears the six-year mark of his own rule, Washington is again in effect tolerating the Baathist dictatorship. This time, the explanation is that not peace, but war is just around the corner--in Iraq. With so much on the administration's Middle East agenda, Syria seems poised once more to escape penalty from Washington. http://www.aina.org/news/20060603160726.htm