How times have changed…
Think back to a year ago. Could you ever have imagined reading a Reuters article with such a negative tone as this one?
Here’s the opening:
The Bush administration sought on Tuesday to project a unified, optimistic view of its plan to hand over power to an interim government in Iraq, even as President Bush faced criticism over a strategy many find lacking in crucial details.
In a televised speech on Monday, Bush tried to convince Americans that he has a workable plan for transforming Iraq from a war-torn occupied nation into a beacon of democratic reform for the Middle East region as a whole.
But his remarks, and a U.N. draft resolution backed by the United States and Britain, quickly came under fire from Democrats, European leaders and the American press barely a month before the June 30 deadline for transferring power to a caretaker Iraqi government.
Wow. It’s getting really hard to remain pessimistic about this election.
“Our own correspondent is sorry to tell / of an uneasy time, that all is not well…” — wire, ‘reuters’
sorry. but somebody had to say it.
Comment by r@d@r | 6/23/2004