And just to stir things up, a Boston Globe columnist who says "Bush's Iraq Illusion" is working on voters, something he regrets.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial...s_off_in_polls/
On the flip side, these two articles at BBC suggest reconstruction is actually taking place at a fairly decent pace in spite of the crazies:
Basra: British troops walking on a volcano but . . . . The article is titled "How Bad Can Things Get?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from...ent/3675538.stm
And, foreign firms clamouring to get into Iraq in spite of workers being killed:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3676856.stm
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