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I was going to put up a Gail Collins column on the Fred Thompson candidacy, since it has proven to be a slow news days for me, but after the president's speech tonight and the dour commentary on MSNBC, the Thompson candidacy seems like an irrelevant sideshow.
President Bush made official what we have known all along. He is carrying on the war full-tilt, leaving withdrawal to the next administration. It just feels tragic and sad.
Yet, it does give Iraqis a year to make it work, by coming together in a unified national government. But from today's vantage point, especially considering news this week that a big agreement on oil fell apart, who can believe that another decade will do them any good, much less another year.
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I was going to put up a Gail Collins column on the Fred Thompson candidacy, since it has proven to be a slow news days for me, but after the president's speech tonight and the dour commentary on MSNBC, the Thompson candidacy seems like an irrelevant sideshow.
President Bush made official what we have known all along. He is carrying on the war full-tilt, leaving withdrawal to the next administration. It just feels tragic and sad.
Yet, it does give Iraqis a year to make it work, by coming together in a unified national government. But from today's vantage point, especially considering news this week that a big agreement on oil fell apart, who can believe that another decade will do them any good, much less another year.
