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It merely means whether it works or not I was encouraged to see a gameplan. I was encouraged that he is changing his approach.

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I understand that you're no Bush groupie, but I don't see why this would be encouraging. This was politically forced on Bush, he basically had no choice other than to change his approach. And of all the choices for change he's chosen the absolute worst one.

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Politically the only positive outcome is that Bush's democratic successor will be the one who has to make the difficult decisions, who will have to pull the troops out to republican criticism of weakness, indecision, and softness.