February 28, 2006

Makin' progress, Bush 'optimistic'
Planet Earth: options in Iraq worsen as unrest grows, thousands are killed.

(Feb. 27) -- Iraq's intensified religious battles could undermine the Bush administration plan for cutting the number of US troops there, experts say.

"This throws a monkey wrench in the administration's strategy of standing down as the Iraqis stand up, because it suggests that many Iraqis are standing up to fight other Iraqis," says James Phillips, a defense scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

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