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financial times - shh don't tell the president
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Barry Phease
Jan 16, 2005, 5:43:36 PM1/16/05
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Bleak article about American prospects in Iraq and GW Bush's preception.
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One counterinsurgency expert said Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary,
had a "brutally accurate" picture of the situation and the potential
dangers.
But a member of an influential neoconservative policy group said that
such warnings "stop well short of the president".
He said Mr Rumsfeld, criticised for the conduct of the war, had an
interest in hiding the true picture from the president.
According to Chas Freeman, former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia and head
of the independent Middle East Policy Council, Mr Bush recently asked Mr
Powell for his view on the progress of the war. "We're losing," Mr Powell
was quoted as saying. Mr Freeman said Mr Bush then asked the secretary of
state to leave.
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Barry Phease
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