The Loven hits just keep coming...
September 23, 2004, Thursday, BC cycle
SECTION: Washington Dateline
LENGTH: 790 words
HEADLINE: Bush hopes Allawi can reassure U.S. voters that progress being made in chaotic Iraq
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
Iraq's visiting prime minister, Ayad Allawi, says he shares a hopeful view with President Bush that things are getting better in Allawi's tumultuous nation, a conviction the president is putting on full display to persuade doubting U.S. voters.
*** Some great lines***
"Allawi's visit comes as troop casualties and civilian kidnappings in Iraq have increased, large parts of the country have come under the control of insurgents and doubts have surfaced at the United Nations that democratic elections can be held in January as planned."
***Insurgents control several towns or "large part sof the country?" Anybody?
"...even some GOP senators have said there is a need for more candid talk from the White House."
"Bush continues to speak of the Iraq invasion primarily as a success story that is improving the lives of Iraqis and making the world safer, if only America does not shrink from the task.
"Freedom is finding a way in Iraq," he said in an address at the United Nations this week. "The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat, it is to prevail."
Allawi, too, has remained on message.
"It's very important for the people of the world really to know that we are winning, we are making progress in Iraq," he said in New York. "Unfortunately, the media have not been covering these significant gains."
*** Allawi, the faithful Bush campaigner stays "on message." I just love that one.
*** Here is what Loven wants to say, but cannot so she finds somebody to say it for her.
"Anthony Cordesman, a military analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, suggested that the administration should spend less time staging an attractive photo opportunity and more adopting a realistic view of the challenges ahead."
-T
Here's another I should have included above:
"And even as Allawi may prove useful to Bush, the appearance could hurt the Iraqi leader at home, where the surgeon-turned-politician is perceived as America's puppet who has no real power base because of his time in exile."
-T