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Iraq: Calling like it is!

The Huffington Post reports today:

"Democrats are increasingly optimistic about their chances to win a majority in the House and Senate in the week before the midterm elections, capitalizing on "continued public dissatisfaction with President Bush and the war in Iraq."

A great deal of Iraq news emerged Tuesday. Polls show Americans are still massively unhappy with the course of the war and the President's handling of the conflict. Senator John Kerry articulated what much of the country is thinking when he said, "had George Bush and Dick Cheney been in combat one minute of their comfortable lives, they would never have sent American troops to war without body armor or without a plan to win the peace." Iraqi Prime Minister threw American commanders off-balance Tuesday when he called for the removal of American roadblocks in Baghdad, implying he believed he had the power to command American troops in what has increasingly been seen as a power struggle. Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld endorsed a plan to send even more American troops to Iraq."

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