For the Bush team, rose-colored glasses (Newsday Page 2!)

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http://www.newsday.com/mynews/ny-nyhen294323702jun29,0,1917625.column

Newsday Page 2 Today!

Ellis Henican
June 29, 2005

Was that Condoleezza Rice standing in City Hall Park yesterday? Could it have been?

Sure looked like her in a white blouse, crisp beige suit and single strand of large white pearls. But when this woman in the park began to speak, I was sure I must be mistaken. She was talking - not about the war in Iraq - but about the 2012 Olympic Games.


Could it really be that things in Iraq are going so splendidly, the United States' secretary of State doesn't need to pay attention anymore?

You see, that's the trouble, right there, with these rose-colored glasses they've all been wearing in the Bush White House. No one can see the problems anymore.

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But he pinned his defense of the war policy almost entirely on a single, discredited connection, the claim that Iraq was tied to Sept. 11.

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No longer is it just the activist Democrats, the human-rights groups or the reporters on the ground saying this whole thing is a mess. Doubts have been rising straight from the president's base.

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It'll take a day or so for the speech to sink in. But if Bush has lost Harvey and Buckley, it's hard to guess exactly who he might have left.

[tk2kewl]

1. .

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. "if Bush has lost Harvey and Buckley, it's hard to guess exactly who he

might have left"

Music to my ears.

[katinmn]

3. Nice, and Henican also works for Faux.

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