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    • Archive for August 28th, 2007

    Worrisome Phrase

    Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

    In reading this AP News story on the upcoming speech by the President, I came across the following:

    Bush and his senior advisers are likely to hear the initial thinking from Ryan Crocker, Bush’s envoy in Baghdad
    [emphasis added]

    Isn’t Ryan Crocker the accredited ambassador to Iraq? Confirmed and empowered, one would hope, by the United States [...]