Mind the gap: democrats' policy disputes on Iraq are tiny. Political disputes are not.(IRAQ)

IT TAKES A UNIQUE SORT OF ADMINISTRATION to decide that the reason its almost three-year-old war shows no signs of concluding successfully is that the president hasn't given enough speeches yet. But on the morning of November 30, the commander-in-chief was trotted out to do just that before an audience of midshipmen at the U.S.

Naval Academy in Annapolis. That same morning, the White House released a grandiosely titled "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq" under the imprimatur of the National Security Council, which apparently had time to spare from its job of ...

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