by RAY FLEMING
IT will be difficult indeed for President Bush to sound credibly upbeat about Iraq in the speech he is making tonight on nationwide US TV. In the evidence they gave to Congress on Monday and Tuesday both General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker, the two key players in Iraq, did their level best to accentuate the positive about military and political progress there following the military surge in the summer but under pointed and sometimes hostile questioning they often had to retreat to positions of very cautious and heavily qualified optimism. Consequently Mr Bush will probably have to say that by next summer there will still be about 130'000 US troops in Iraq, the same number as before the surge. Furthermore, he will have to acknowledge that a full withdrawal will depend on a vastly improved performance by the Iraq government in fostering national reconciliation.
WHAT CAN BUSH SAY?
19/09/2013 00:00
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