] Recent surveys raise questions about Bush's assertion
] that only "a handful" of people are actively involved in
] the insurgency.
]
]
] A report issued Friday by the Washington-based Center for
] Strategic and International Studies cited a poll showing
] a third of Iraqi Sunnis and 11 percent of Shiites support
] attacks on multinational forces.
]
]
] "Violence is going up and Iraqi support for the U.S.
] presence is going down," said James Dobbins, a former
] Bush administration special envoy to Afghanistan and
] now a military analyst for the RAND Corp.
] "If we can't protect the population, we can't secure its
] trust and support."

[ Bush lives in a fantasy world. Or, at least, he's trying to sell that fantasy world to the American public. -k]

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