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...humbled) powerhouse, but Italians consider themselves the winners of another contest: Where Would You Rather Be? They make up less than 2% of foreign visitors to Germany, while Germans make up 25% of visitors to Italy, and spend some €8 billion there each year. Italians can't blame them for that; by and large, they still view Germany as the Roman historian Tacitus did in A.D. 99: "Who would leave ... Italy to visit Germany, with its unlovely scenery, its bitter climate, its general dreariness ... unless it were his home...
...case against Iraq was simply the product of ignorance. And it may be expected that the CIA will more and more sharply signal that it passed its findings up the food chain, because on the basis of Ambassador Wilson's revelations, they'd be left to take the blame if they didn't. Then again, the media may turn its attention to the role of the Vice President's office: After all, Ambassador Wilson claims his inquiry was initiated by a request from Dick Cheney's office to check out the allegation. So presumably, Wilson's findings will have been...
...right now, the game in Washington is to pin the blame for the fact that a fib, conscious or unconscious, made it into the State of the Union address. And in a summer news trough, that's bad news for the White House...
...past several weeks, the usually lockstep Bush Administration has done its best to maintain a unified front in the face of these queries. Whenever asked, Administration officials have replied that the weapons will turn up eventually. But as the search drags on through its third largely futile month, the blame game in Washington has gone into high gear. And as Bush's allies and enemies alike on Capitol Hill begin to pick apart some 19 volumes of prewar intelligence and examine them one document at a time, the cohesive Bush team is starting to come apart. "This is a cloud...
...acts as a force multiplier for the insurgents. Tuesday's explosion that killed nine people at a mosque in Fallujah shows why. Indications are that the explosion was caused by explosives being handled inside the mosque, presumably by would-be insurgents, but the overwhelming inclination among Iraqis is to blame the U.S., regardless of the facts. And the tendency of many Iraqis who have no truck with the insurgency to nonetheless believe the worst rumors about the U.S. ought to be deeply worrying to U.S. officials. The problem even extends to some Iraqis working directly with the U.S. to restore...