Hitler revisited, weapons of mass destruction, al Qaida, attack them before they attack us here; we've heard all of the phrases used over 17 years to describe Saddam Hussein.
Now he's one of us.
Patrick Graham of Macleans of Canada has a great piece detailing Bush's constantly changing goals, now reduced to simply running out the clock until 2008 and letting his successor clean up the mess.
It seems that former Sunni extremists, the dead-enders aren't so bad after all.
Writes Graham:
Many of America’s new allies are former insurgents and Saddam Hussein loyalists (Saddam was a Sunni) who only a short while ago were routinely called terrorists, “anti-Iraqi fighters,” and “Baathist dead-enders.” They are suspicious of one another and strongly anti-American, although willing to work, for the moment, with the U.S.
Nothing Bush says ought be taken at face value. But maybe that's obvious.
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