David Gergen: The Fierce Urgency of Iraq

THE FIERCE URGENCY OF IRAQ - U.S. News & World Report

"To leave Iraq without finishing the job would be a disaster for American foreign policy."
-- David Gergen

It's hard these days not to be angry about Iraq. Official reports pile up suggesting that before the war, the Bush administration overestimated the imminence of Saddam Hussein's threat. With the number of dead and wounded American soldiers now above 2,000--and no end in sight--evidence that the administration underestimated the challenges after the war is also accumulating. Now the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into whether one or more top administration officials leaked the name of a covert CIA officer in order to discredit her husband and silence other critics of the war. Someday, soon, there must be a day of reckoning.

David Gergen on the fierce urgency of Iraq:
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