Unanswered War Questions (washingtonpost.com): "The president sounded occasionally as if he were caught in a pre-invasion time warp, repeating the idealistic rhetoric that led the United States to war in Iraq without thinking through a pragmatic postwar strategy. 'A free Iraq will set a powerful example in the part of the world that is desperate for freedom,' he proclaimed. But that kind of talk just doesn't match a real-world situation in which the secretary of state says the Iraqi insurgency is becoming worse and the CIA warns that the country could be slip- ping toward civil war. "
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