CRESCENDO OF CRITICISM

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CRESCENDO OF CRITICISM
Fri, 09-17-2004 - 3:26pm
Some of the nation's editorial boards criticized the president's lack of candor on Iraq today.

USA Today points out, "While all of the options have downsides, the longer the administration denies the deepening crisis in Iraq, the longer the crisis will fester. That places U.S. troops in greater peril, risks turning Iraq into a terrorist haven and dims hopes of creating a viable government, much less a model of democracy in the Middle East."

Despite the NIE report projecting "dicey to disastrous" scenarios for Iraq, the Boston Globe notes, "President Bush and Vice President Cheney nevertheless go on campaigning on the false pretense that their Iraq policy has been a great success." Instead, "continuing mayhem…casts light on the unmistakable failures of the Bush administration's efforts at peacemaking and nation-building in postwar Iraq."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-09-16-our-view_x.htm

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2004/09/17/ugly_truths_about_iraq/

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Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.