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Failure Is Not An Acceptable Media Representation

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Diplomats in the [UK’s] Foreign Office are working frantically in private on what they refer to as the “exit ticket” from Iraq. In contrast to the official line that British forces will remain until the job is done, the Foreign Office wants to engineer a set of circumstances in which both Britain and the US can begin to reduce troops next year. But the speed with which unrest and violence is growing is making this harder … Reflecting lowered expectations, the source said the priority for withdrawal was merely that “George Bush is not seen to have failed. He will have to have at least set Iraq on the road to democracy”.

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