(President Bush yesterday fiercely defended his decision to bar France,
Germany, Russia and Canada from Iraq reconstruction contracts, defying a
furious outcry from allies and even objections from GOP and conservative
leaders)
The White House came under scathing criticism even from supporters, who
called the policy a blunder. In a memorandum distributed to U.S. opinion
leaders, neoconservative writers William Kristol and Robert Kagan said the
policy should be abandoned sooner rather than later to minimize the
diplomatic damage.
"A truly wise American administration would have opened the bidding to all
comers, regardless of their opposition to the war -- as a way of buying
those countries into the Iraq effort, building a little goodwill for the
future and demonstrating to the world a little magnanimity. But instead of
being smart, clever or magnanimous, the Bush administration has done a dumb
thing," they wrote.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57805-2003Dec11_2.html
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Regards
Hesham Marei
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