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"I’ll deal first with the Washington scandal du jour. In 2002, Foley thanked that year’s class of congressional pages with a bizarre, tearful speech that smacked of a guilty conscience and hypocritical emotions. According to the ABC blotter, “some of the very same pages in the chamber that day would months later receive Foley’s sexually explicit messages.” Clearly, Foley has acute problems. But Republican staff warned congressional pages five years ago to watch out for Foley, now the former representative from Florida. Yet Mr. Hastert took no action."

Some have described the situation in Iraq as a tightening noose, noting that "time is not on our side"and that "morale is down." Others have described a "very dangerous" turn of events and are "extremely concerned." Who are they that have expressed these concerns? In fact, these are the exact words of terrorists discussing Iraq -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his associates -- who are describing their own situation and must be watching with fear the progress that Iraq has made over the past three years. The terrorists seem to recognize that they are losing in Iraq. I believe that...