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Analysis: Bad reviews for Iraq policy
Analysis: Bad reviews for Iraq policy
By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer
Thu Oct 26, 6:49 PM ET

BAGHDAD, Iraq - 'Stay the course' is gone. In its place: 'constant readjustment' of tactics, a timeline to crush Shiite death squads and inducements like unconditional amnesty for Sunni insurgents.

Polls of Iraqis show them eager for American troops to leave. U.S. public opinion surveys find that only about 34 percent of voters support the war effort.

With such broad disaffection and midterm elections coming Nov. 7, the Bush administration has spent the past few weeks in an intense search for a new face to put on the conflict, in which more than 2,800 U.S. troops now have died.

While American voters will make their judgement of the administration effort in less than two weeks, the newly burnished policy already is getting bad reviews in Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki took issue only a day after it was unveiled, implying portions of it were a challenge the sovereingty of his five-month-old government.

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"Iraqis are fighting Iraqis for Iraqi reasons, not to influence elections or force the U.S. out of Iraq," Center for Strategic and International Studies scholar Anthony Cordesman said in a recent paper.

"This has built up for more than two years, and any reference to a 'Tet offensive' requires both a massive ignorance of the realities in Iraq and an equal ignorance of the realities in Vietnam," he said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061026/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_election



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