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The New York Times | Editorial
Thursday 11 January 2007
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President Bush told Americans last night that failure in Iraq would be a disaster. The disaster is Mr. Bush's war, and
he has already failed. Last night was his chance to stop offering more fog and be honest with the nation, and he did not
take it.
Americans needed to hear a clear plan to extricate United States troops from the disaster that Mr. Bush created. What
they got was more gauzy talk of victory in the war on terrorism and of creating a "young democracy" in Iraq. In other
words, a way for this president to run out the clock and leave his mess for the next one.
Mr. Bush did acknowledge that some of his previous tactics had failed. But even then, the president sounded as if he
were an accidental tourist in Iraq. He described the failure of last year's effort to pacify Baghdad as if the White
House and the Pentagon bore no responsibility.
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