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Back to basics
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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
OK, try this one:
"This house believes that Rummy leaked his own memo to reassert his authority in foreign policy, and specifically his preeminence on all matters Iraq, after having the reconstruction publicly assumed by the NSA."
Discuss.
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Maybe less to reassert his authority than to try to shore up his credibility -- in the fact of the Administration's unceasingly and unrealistically optimistic pronouncements about the state of things in Iraq, etc. -- by suggesting that notwithstanding his public comments, he's privately more realistic.
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