"President George Bush is about to embark on one of the toughest campaigns of his second term. Tomorrow, with the third anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq looming, he will make the first of a series of speeches to convince the American public, a sceptical world - and perhaps even himself - that things are going the right way in Iraq.
Signalling the start of this public relations offensive, Mr Bush said on Friday that Iraq had stepped back from "the abyss" of civil war. That is debatable - in the eyes of many Iraqis, civil war has already begun - but it shows how far expectations have sunk since the invasion was launched with such swaggering confidence 36 months ago."
It is 3 years today that the Coalition of the Willing invaded Iraq. Much has been written and said about the actual invasion and what has occurred since. It's fair to say that much of that has been hyperbole and downright lies. Just reading the news and viewing tv footage doesn't demonstrate that things are even stabilising in Iraq.
The Independent today contains an interesting article [here] on what it describes as the Promises and the Realities.
Signalling the start of this public relations offensive, Mr Bush said on Friday that Iraq had stepped back from "the abyss" of civil war. That is debatable - in the eyes of many Iraqis, civil war has already begun - but it shows how far expectations have sunk since the invasion was launched with such swaggering confidence 36 months ago."
It is 3 years today that the Coalition of the Willing invaded Iraq. Much has been written and said about the actual invasion and what has occurred since. It's fair to say that much of that has been hyperbole and downright lies. Just reading the news and viewing tv footage doesn't demonstrate that things are even stabilising in Iraq.
The Independent today contains an interesting article [here] on what it describes as the Promises and the Realities.
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