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Article: Nightmare at 1600.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2003
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Byline: Harlan Ullman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
George W. Bush is a president whose confidence and optimism usually trump second-guessers' complaints about things going wrong. But more things appear to be going wrong than right in Iraq. The dastardly bombings of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad and the Najaf mosque that killed the leading Shi'ite cleric Mohammed Baqir al Hakim, along with daily attacks against coalition forces, must lead to a few dark moments in the White House.
That gloom is unlikely to lessen until security conditions improve in Iraq. Congress is back and, reflecting the public mood, is impatient with the administration's handling of postwar ...