"If things go sour in Iraq, the president may well lose the election"

Bush Looks for Edge From Iraq Handover

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=1&u=/ap/20040628/ap_on_el_pr/turnover_politics



"The fact is that the United States is going to be held responsible in the world for success and failure in Iraq, and it's going to be held responsible over a period of years, not months," said Anthony Cordesman, an Iraq expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

He said Iraq faces two scenarios: democracy begins to take hold, the economy improves and Iraq shoulders more of its security responsibilities ... or internal divisions erupt, the new leaders cannot effectively govern or get control of the economy and they fail to manage security forces.

"Whether things are going to get better or worse by the time of the U.S. election is something where, at this point, the best analysts in the world can't do anything more than flip a coin," Cordesman said.

"It is Iraq which basically is undermining what used to be a very strong lead" for Bush, Cordesman said. "If things go sour in Iraq, seriously sour, the president may well lose the election. If things show real progress, then he may well win it."

the numbers from Iraq would have looked like a cease fire during the bad years of (65-71) of Viet Nam.

see which one fills up faster. I guess I shouldn't be too harsh on Mr. Cordesman, seeing as how he just snapped out of his coma. How else can one explain the use of the term "If things go sour in Iraq". :eyes:

if the Pope converts to Catholicism?

{Thinking to himself}: Oh dear God, he's telling me a Polack joke. I staked my career on THIS man's credibility?!

Certainly, they can't get bad now, right?

:eyes:

how fully fucked the CURRENT situation is in Iraw, bush* will quit!