Bush�s Urgent Task: To Calm Public�s Growing Impatience: "'I'll say that the world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership, and America is more secure,' Mr. Bush said, describing how he will run on his record. 'That will be how I'll begin describing our foreign policy.'
Democrats scoffed.
'This president appears to lack the leadership skills required to do what is necessary to successfully stabilize and reconstruct Iraq before the window of opportunity closes,' Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, said in a statement.
'Instead,' Mr. Dean said, 'President Bush seems content to pursue the current flawed plan, unwilling to do what is necessary to encourage our friends and allies to assist, incapable of taking the steps necessary to expedite the transfer of sovereignty to the Iraqis, and content to direct billions of dollars to special interests like Halliburton.'"
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