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Undercutting Bush’s claims of success in Anbar.
Today, President Bush held the Anbar province up as an example of his escalation’s success and justification for why the troop buildup should not be cut short:In Anbar you’re seeing firsthand the dramatic differences that can come when the Iraqis are more secure. … You see Sunnis who once fought side by side with [...]

Bush’s surge escalated ethnic cleansing.
Shiites have cleared the western half of Baghdad of thousands of Sunnis, who once dominated the area. “The surge of U.S. troops — meant in part to halt the sectarian cleansing of the Iraqi capital — has hardly stemmed the problem.” Rafiq Tschannen, chief of the Iraq mission for the International Organization for Migration, “says [...]

Bush: a ‘lot of hot air’ on global warming.
At a fundraiser on Monday, President Bush claimed, “Do you realize that the United States is the only major industrialized nation that cut greenhouse gases last year?” But as the Washington Post notes, this statement isn’t actually true: Kristen A. Hellmer, the spokeswoman for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, acknowledged afterward that the [...]

Mexican President chides U.S.’s ‘humiliating treatment.’
Mexico’s President Felipe Caldern criticized the “insensitivity” of the Bush administration toward foreign workers who have strengthened the U.S. economy, and expressed “categorical rejection to the construction of a wall on our common border.” The Arizona Republic reports:Mexico’s president drew a standing ovation from legislators as he chided Americans for new border fences and their [...]

Bush’s hope for successor: ’stay longer’ in Iraq.
In Robert Draper’s book on the Bush presidency, “Dead Certain,” Bush says the goal of his Iraq strategy is to play it out until “October-November.” That is when he hopes the Iraq troop increase will finally show enough results to help him achieve the central goal of his remaining time in office: “To get us [...]

Bush makes surprise visit to Iraq.
“President Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq on Monday, using the war zone as a backdrop to argue his case that the buildup of U.S. troops is helping stabilizing the nation.” On his way to the APEC summit in Australia, Bush made a detour to Iraq, landing at an air base in a remote [...]