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Old 08-05-2007, 06:20 PM   #1
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Default Romney, Giuliani Change Tone on Bush's Iraq Buildup

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20...NeHWB1x4iog9IF

For Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, the difference between ``real'' and ``reasonable'' is the distance he's traveled on President George W. Bush's Iraq war policy.

In April, Romney said Bush's plan to send about 30,000 additional troops to Iraq had a ``real chance'' of succeeding. On July 26, he was more equivocal, saying in an interview: ``I don't give that a high probability, I give it a reasonable probability.''

With pessimism growing about the ability of a troop injection to overcome Iraq's sectarian violence, Romney, 60, and other Republicans who embraced the plan are gingerly laying the groundwork for a possible shift away from White House appeals to stay the course.

Romney, who isn't noted for jabs at Bush, is simply preparing for a call for a post-surge strategy, said Tom Rath, a senior adviser. ``That cannot be viewed as a sign of disloyalty or disrespect, but rather an inevitability in the political process.'' The issue, Rath said, ``is how far any candidate should go in separating from the president.''

Behind the semantic shift is a September day of reckoning for Bush's troop surge. That's when General David Petraeus will give Congress an assessment of the strategy, in the process putting a lens on Republican hopefuls and their plans for handling the conflict.

Romney isn't alone in opening a little space between himself and the administration on Iraq. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is also scouting for safer ground.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20...NeHWB1x4iog9IF

For Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, the difference between ``real'' and ``reasonable'' is the distance he's traveled on President George W. Bush's Iraq war policy.

In April, Romney said Bush's plan to send about 30,000 additional troops to Iraq had a ``real chance'' of succeeding. On July 26, he was more equivocal, saying in an interview: ``I don't give that a high probability, I give it a reasonable probability.''

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With pessimism growing about the ability of a troop injection to overcome Iraq's sectarian violence, Romney, 60, and other Republicans who embraced the plan are gingerly laying the groundwork for a possible shift away from White House appeals to stay the course.
Romney, who isn't noted for jabs at Bush, is simply preparing for a call for a post-surge strategy, said Tom Rath, a senior adviser. ``That cannot be viewed as a sign of disloyalty or disrespect, but rather an inevitability in the political process.'' The issue, Rath said, ``is how far any candidate should go in separating from the president.''

Behind the semantic shift is a September day of reckoning for Bush's troop surge. That's when General David Petraeus will give Congress an assessment of the strategy, in the process putting a lens on Republican hopefuls and their plans for handling the conflict.

Romney isn't alone in opening a little space between himself and the administration on Iraq. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is also scouting for safer ground.
Janett you continue to confuse me with what point (if any) you are trying to make. If it's this one:

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With pessimism growing about the ability of a troop injection to overcome Iraq's sectarian violence, Romney, 60, and other Republicans who embraced the plan are gingerly laying the groundwork for a possible shift away from White House appeals to stay the course.
This author looks behind the times (even the NYTimes recent polling is disagreeing with this).
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Old 08-05-2007, 08:31 PM   #3
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I'm kind of confused about which GOP candidates you are talking about Janett???

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/us...rssnyt&emc=rss

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The leading Republican presidential candidates said today that the military escalation in Iraq appeared to be restoring stability in that country and they berated their Democratic counterparts for advocating an end to American involvement there.

Gathered for a Sunday morning debate in Des Moines, the Republican field offered a clear contrast with Democrats who, in a debate the day before, declared the troop escalation a failure and advocated an American withdrawal from Iraq. By contrast, most of the Republicans pointed to some early evidence of success in Iraq in arguing that it would be a mistake to abandon the war.
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