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Democrats demonised for backing Bush in Iraq By Alex Spillius in Washington Last Updated: 2:19am BST 25/08/2007 A US military patrol guards a street corner during a weapons search in Baghdad Two of the Democratic party’s most influential strategists have been transformed into hate figures of the American Left after daring to support President George W. Bush’s tactics in Iraq. Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack, military analysts at Washington’s liberal Brookings Institution, declared themselves as unlikely allies of Mr Bush when they wrote an article in the New York Times titled “A War We Might Just Win". The article was...