Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME, September 9th, 2003
If a president were able to take back a declaration of victory, President Bush did so Sunday night. He did it appropriately and for the proper reasons. The war in Iraq is not over. It is a different war from what U.S. troops encountered in the spring and certainly different from what President Bush's top advisers described. The United States is in a protracted war in Iraq. But it is, as the president said Sunday, a war from which it must not retreat.
The president's admission of miscalculation for postwar Iraq was welcome and provided an opportunity for political parties at home and other nat...
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