Bush Faces Dual Challenges on Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/24/AR2005112400963.html
By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 25, 2005; Page A01
As he leads a fierce campaign this month to rebut criticism of the Iraq
war, President Bush faces twin challenges -- one of them rooted in
history, the other in the political realities of the moment.
Bush's historical burden is that there is no recent precedent for a
leader using persuasion to reverse a steady downward slide for a
military venture of the sort he is facing. Only clear evidence of
success in Iraq is likely to alleviate widespread unease about the
central project of this presidency, public opinion experts and
political strategists say.
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