> "Donna Evleth" wrote in message
> news:C2C7B02E.56106%%devleth@wanadoo.fr...

>>> From: "John Rennie" talktalk.net>

>>> Now Iraq is a bloody quagmire, Afghanistan is deteriorating and the
>>> Bush administration's own National Intelligence Estimate admits, in
>>> effect, that thanks to Mr. Bush's poor leadership America is losing the
>>> struggle with Al Qaeda. Yet Mr. Bush remains confident.
>>>
>>> Sorry, but that's not reassuring; it's terrifying. It doesn't
>>> demonstrate Mr. Bush's strength of character; it shows that he has lost
>>> touch with reality.

>>> Actually, it's not clear that he ever was in touch with reality.

>> I read this article just this morning in the International Herald
>> Tribune. I find the last sentence in the part I exerpted to be the
>> whole painful truth of the matter.

> I haven't got over General Petraeus comparing the American forces' task
> in Iraq with that of the British Army in Northern Ireland. If he
> really believes that the British Army 'beat' the IRA he's a simpleton and
> not the much vaunted saviour that much of Bush's America hopes he is.