And it used to be such a pleasure
Support for the Bush administration's foreign policy may be starting to wobble. But can the Democrats take advantage?
HERE is something that doesn't happen every day: the Bush administration admitting it was wrong. In this case, that the president should not have claimed—as he did in his state-of-the-union address in January—that Iraq tried to buy yellow-cake uranium from Niger in an attempt to restart its nuclear-weapons programme.
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