**September 6, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CATASTROPHE:

Government Accountability Office. Catastrophic Disasters: Enhanced
Leadership, Capabilities, and Accountability Controls Will Improve the
Effectiveness of the Nation\'s Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
System. Washington DC: GAO, Report to Congressional Committees
(GAO-06-618), September 2006, 147 pages. At:

[[http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-618]{.underline}](http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-618)

\[Excerpt: \"The purpose of this report is to summarize what went well
and why {Katrina response}, what did not go well and why, and what
changes are needed to improve the nation\'s readiness to respond to a
catastrophic disaster; and to identify selected issues associated with
the Gulf Coast\'s recovery.\"\]

\(2\) DISASTER RELIEF:

Government Accountability Office. Disaster Relief: Governmentwide
Framework Needed to College and Consolidate Information to Report on
Billions in Federal Funding for the 2005 Gulf Coast Hurricanes.
Washington DC: GAO Report to Congressional Committees (GAO-06-834),
September 6, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-834]{.underline}](http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-834)

\[Excerpt: \"GAO makes four recommendations to DHS to improve the
information on the status of hurricane relief funds provided in FEMA\'s
weekly reports. GAO also recommends that the\...OMB take action to
improve transparency and accountability regarding the status of
hurricane-related funding at the government wide level. DHS and OMB
concurred with the recommendations.\"\]

\(3\) FEMA:

Hsu, Spencer S. \"Proposals to Revise FEMA May Be in Jeopardy on Capitol
Hill.\" Washington Post, 6Sep06. Accessed at:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090501199.html>

\(4\) HOMELAND SECURITY:

Dillon, Nancy. \"Chuck Gives Feds a C- on Homeland Security.\" New York
Daily News, September 5, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/449472p-378329c.html]{.underline}](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/449472p-378329c.html)

\[NY Senator Schumer: \"The Homeland Security Department is like a bed
that has seven kids and only enough blanket for four,\" the senator
said. \"You pull in one direction to cover up one aspect of homeland
security, and then others are laid bare.\"\]

\(5\) KATRINA AND RITA:

Government Accountability Office. Hurricane Katrina: Strategic Planning
Needed to Guide Future Enhancements Beyond Interim Levee Repairs.
Washington DC: GAO Report to Congressional Committees (GAO-06-934),
September 6, 2006. At:

[[http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-934]{.underline}](http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-934)

Grossman, Wendy. \"Hurricane Rita\'s Toxic Wake.\" Time Magazine, August
30, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1449037,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1449037,00.html)

\(6\) NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM:

Jones, Jessica. \"Moving Target?\" Government Technology\'s Emergency
Management, August 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.emergencymgmt.com/story.php?id=100474]{.underline}](http://www.emergencymgmt.com/story.php?id=100474)

\[Excerpt: \"GAO recommends that the Corps develop a comprehensive
strategy and implementation plan that incorporates all elements for
rebuilding and strengthening the system to ensure that specified levels
of protection are constructed in a cost-effective manner, within
reasonable time frames. GAO also recommends that the Corps establish an
independent task force to help support and guide its ongoing and future
repair efforts.\"\]

\(7\) NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE \-- INVESTIGATING HS &
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM:

Ricky Tompkins, Ed.D., Director, Institute for Corporate and Public
Safety, communicated with Barbara Johnson today to ask if he could
submit a faculty position announcement in the EM Faculty Positions
section of the website \-- Yes. NWACC has been investigating some sort
of homeland security and emergency management program for some time and
is apparently about ready to move out. More, when the vacancy
announcement is received here. Or, contact Dr. Tompkins at:
<rtompkins1@nwacc.edu>

\(8\) WAR ON TERROR:

Blankley, Tony. \"Appeasement - It Won\'t Work This Time, Either.\"

Jewish World Review, September 6, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://jewishworldreview.com/0906/blankley090606.php3]{.underline}](http://jewishworldreview.com/0906/blankley090606.php3)

\[Excerpts: \"\... appeasement - in and of itself - is neither
inherently unwise nor immoral. It depends on the facts of each case.
While the term had not been used before the 1930s, the policy has been a
mainstay of both weak and powerful governments throughout history\....
Some of Bush\'s critics are quite straightforward appeasers (if not
using that phrase).

My friend Pat Buchanan and Michael Scheuer (former head of CIA\'s bin
Laden unit and author of \"Imperial Hubris\") state that the reason bin
Laden is attacking us is because of our foreign policy of supporting
Israel and authoritarian Muslim governments such as Saudi Arabia and
Egypt. They argue we should reverse those policies and thereby take
ourselves out of the terrorist line of fire. All those critics who say
we should change our foreign policies because we are causing the
Islamists to attack us are - whether they use the term or not - arguing
to appease aggressors by changing ourselves in conformity with the
aggressor\'s desires. The politically correct crowd who say we should
change the way we talk, think and behave, change our surveillance of
Muslims, even here in America, because it offends Islamist
sensibilities - wish to gain safety by appeasing the violent and
offended Islamists. These arguments are not immoral or cowardly. If we
could vouchsafe America from the danger of nuclear, biological and other
mass slaughters of millions of our citizens, it would be reckless not to
carefully consider such appeasements. This is an issue of threat
assessment. The appeasers don\'t see the threat as so great. Thus they
think we are overreacting and even adding to the problem. But for
President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Tony Blair, Australian Prime Minister
Howard and (considerably lower on the food chain) me and millions of
others, we are convinced that no amount of appeasement of the
terrorists\' desires will make us safer. As I wrote in my book last year
(\"The West\'s Last Chance\"), just as Hitler\'s Nazis, the radical
Islamists are irreconcilable and unlimited in their goals. And, they are
expanding their reach into the broad grass roots of Islam throughout the
world (including in Europe and the United States). A maximum effort to
extirpate the malignancy is the only and best defense for our way of
life.\"\]

Borchgrave, Arnaud de. \"Wrong \'ism,\' Wrong History.\" Washington
Times, September 3, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.washtimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060902-101913-4688r>

\[Excerpt: \"Al Qaeda today is a global politico-religious, ideological
and spiritual movement that has far more in common with global communism
than the European fascism of the 1930s and \'40s. What Mr. Bush calls
the global war on terror is an ideological struggle, punctuated by acts
of terrorism, a fundamental clash of civilizations between democratic
freedom and totalitarian religious regimentation, that is likely to
endure at least as long as the almost half-century Cold War.\"\]

Center for Strategic & International Studies. Five Years After 9/11:
Accomplishments & Continuing Challenges. Washington DC: CSIS, September
5, 2006, 7 pages. Accessed at:
[[http://www.csis.org/fiveyears]{.underline}](http://www.csis.org/fiveyears)

\[Website description: \" Five years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
the United States and its allies hold a mixed record of achievement in
executing the global war on terror. Domestic security and intelligence
operations have improved, but the nature of the terrorist threat is
changing dramatically, complicating efforts to secure homelands and
defeat the groups and ideologies that nurture terrorist movements around
the world. CSIS has undertaken a project to assess the degree to which a
wide range of policies and practices enacted by government and business
over the last five years have increased security and diminished the
threat of terrorism in the United States. CSIS experts identify both
significant accomplishments and continuing challenges in the U.S.

conduct of the global war on terrorism in six critical areas:

The Evolving Threat of Terrorism

Ideology and the Battle of Ideas

America\'s Domestic Security

Intelligence

International Cooperation

U.S. Strategy and Capabilities for Winning the Long War\"\]

DeYoung, Karen. \"Individuals, Small Groups Cited as Terrorist
Threats.\"

Washington Post, 6 Sep 2006. At:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090501399_pf.html>

\[On White House release of 2006 Terrorism report. Excerpts: \"\'It\'s
not an either-or phenomenon,\' said terrorism expert and Georgetown
University professor Bruce Hoffman.'There are two processes moving on
parallel tracks. You can see the attraction of saying . . . we have
weakened al-Qaeda. But that also flies in the face of increasing
evidence over the last couple of years that al-Qaeda is still directing
and plotting attacks on a grand scale and seems undeterred.\'\....
Several aspects of the new strategy differ sharply from an earlier
version, published in February 2003, just before the U.S. invasion of
Iraq. That document depicted a structured pyramid with al-Qaeda at the
top, directing widespread terrorist cells and worldwide operations with
help from sympathetic state sponsors. Its military emphasis called for
U.S.-led \'direct and continuous action\' and warned that \'we will not
hesitate to act alone . . . including acting preemptively against
terrorists\'.\"\]

Farah, Douglas. \"Salafism in the Washington Post.\" Blog, September 5,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.douglasfarah.com/]{.underline}](http://www.douglasfarah.com/)

\[Excerpt: \"Ms. Murphy is striking with her passing mention that after
9-11, Salafists in the United States found their \"theology and
practices were suddenly suspect.\" It is not noted that for decades, as
the Saudis poured hundreds of millions into the spread of Salfism here
and elsewhere, that the message was to kill all of us considered
infidels.

It was only \"suddenly suspect\" because we had not listened to them
until they attacked us. The theology of Salfism, in fact, is not suspect
at all-it is a clear, straightforward statement of belief that calls on
the faithful to carry out jihad. The hijackers of 9-11, faithful to that
call, did so. To pretend that Salafism itself preaches something
different is a disservice.\" {Douglas Farah is the author of \"Blood
From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror.\"\]

Fletcher, Michael. \"Bush Warns of Enduring Terror Threat.\" Washington
Post, September 6, 2006. At:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090500312_pf.html>

\[Excerpt: \"\'What is missing from the . . . public discussion of all
of this is some explanation of the phenomenon of radicalized Islam,\'
said Daniel Benjamin, a senior fellow at CSIS and former Clinton
administration official.'Why are there so many people out there who want
to kill Americans and so many Westerners? Why is this such a durable
phenomenon?\'\"\]

Gerstenzang, James and Josh Meyer. \"Ideas Key to Beating Terrorists,
Bush Says - Five Years After 9/11, A White House Report Shows How Policy
Has Evolved in its demands on Allies and Knowledge About the Enemy.\"
Los Angeles Times, September 6, 2006. Accessed at:
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-terror6sep06,0,2270041.story?track=tottext>

\[About yesterday\'s release by the White House of the \"National
Strategy for Combating Terrorism 2006\" report, noted herein yesterday.
Excerpt: \"Raphael Perl, a terrorism expert at the Congressional
Research Service, a nonpartisan congressional think tank, said the most
significant change in thinking revealed in the White House report was
\'the focus on the ideology of terrorism and the defeat of violent
extremism as an ideology\'.\"\]

Gordon, Greg. \"5 Years Later, U.S. Still Vulnerable to Attacks.\"

McClatchy Newspapers, September 3, 2006. At:

[[http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/15429248.htm]{.underline}](http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/15429248.htm)

\[Excerpts: \"A close examination of the federal government\'s homeland
security effort\...reveals how vulnerable the nation remains to
catastrophe. Federal officials and security experts directly involved in
the cat-and-mouse game with terrorists have realized that the nation
faces more threats than the government can ever combat. The result is a
deadly guessing game on a global scale, with security officials often
one step behind the terrorists. \"We can\'t cover every conceivable
target against every conceivable attack at every waking moment,\" said
Bruce Hoffman, a Georgetown University professor in security studies.
\'You strengthen one set of targets, they\'ll shift to another\'\....
It\'s a commitment that far exceeds the post-World War II Marshall Plan
to rebuild Western Europe, but it\'s not nearly enough to close off
every possible line of attack\.... Independent security experts say the
government should sharpen its priorities and adopt a long-term strategy
that reflects a deeper understanding of the enemy\.... Brian Jenkins, a
RAND Corp. counterterrorism expert and the author of \"Unconquerable
Nation,\" a new book about the terrorist threat, said the United States
needs to become more effective at political warfare \"aimed at blunting
messages, impeding recruiting and stopping the flow of angry young men
into the jihadist circle.\" \"Unless we can do that,\" he said, \"then
we are condemned to a strategy that is equivalent to stepping on
cockroaches one at a time.\"\"\]

Hoagland, Jim. \"A Change in Tone - And a Stumble.\" Washington Post,
September 3, 2006. Accessed at:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090101456.html>

\[Excerpt: \"There is a serious debate to be had about the best way
forward in the war that Islamic extremists and their state sponsors have
declared on the United States and on the related conflict in Iraq. Not
all of what Cheney and Rumsfeld have to say on this should be
disregarded as rhetorical chaff. Their vision of the world is dark and
overstated but not devoid of reality. But their failure to give critics
a respectful hearing makes it difficult for them to get one when they
have valid points. Demanding trust from the public without extending it
invites great skepticism.\"\]

Jaffe, Greg. \"A General\'s New Plan To Battle Radical Islam: Top
Commander Gen. Abizaid Uses Soldiers to Build Health Clinics and Dig
Wells. But Is It Enough?\" Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2006.

\[Note: One has to be a subscriber to get to the article. There is a
detailed take on the article by blogger Thomas P.M. Barnett at:

[[http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/archives2/003679.html]{.underline}](http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/archives2/003679.html)

Kitfield, James. \"White House Anti-Terror Chief: \'We Are Due For
Another Attack\'.\" National Journal, September 5, 2006. At:

[[http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=34933&dcn=e_gvet]{.underline}](http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=34933&dcn=e_gvet)

\[Excerpt: \"\...we know this enemy and looking back at 9/11 we
understand that their planning cycle is three to five years. That tells
me that America is in the danger zone. We are due for another attack.\"
{Francis Townsend, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and
Counterterrorism}.\]

Kling, Arnold. \"Naming Our Enemies.\" TCSDaily, September 6, 2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=090606C]{.underline}](http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=090606C)

\[Excerpt: \"\...there is a proper legal category for terrorists. They
are best thought of as spies, or enemy secret agents. The tactics and
procedures that are appropriate for trying to apprehend spies in a time
of war are appropriate for dealing with terrorists. Those tactics
include counter-espionage and surveillance. Enemy spies do not fall
under the Geneva Convention treatment for prisoners of war\.... Another
relevant category is traitor. A traitor is someone who does not act as
an enemy agent, but who provides material and moral support to the
enemy. Anyone who explicitly supports Al Qaeda is a traitor. Traitors
risk losing their citizenship, among other penalties\.... One way to
identify the enemy would be with a formal declaration of war\.... An
alternative approach could be to designate specific terrorist groups as
enemies. Clearly, Al Qaeda belongs in that category\....\"\]

Malkin, Michelle. \"A Post-9/11 Vocabulary Test.\" Jewish World Review,
September 6, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin090606.php3]{.underline}](http://jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin090606.php3)

\[Excerpt: \"What have you learned since the Sept. 11 attacks five years
ago? The mass murder of 2,996 innocent people on American soil forced
open my eyes to the Islamic holy war against the West, freedom, and
modernity. The battle has raged not for years or decades, but for
centuries - well before the Crusades began\.... Take a post-9/11 pop
quiz. It\'s never too late to start pulling your head from the sand:
Jihadis. These are our enemies\--from Mohammed Atta and company to the
Butchers of Beslan, to the throat-slitters in Karachi and Baghdad and
Mindanao, to the bombers of Bali, Madrid, and London, to their funders
and imams and enablers worldwide. They are not \"freedom fighters\" or
\"militants\" or \"rebels\" or \"evildoers\" of unknown geographic and
religious affiliation. Apologists claim \"jihad\" means a peaceful
Muslim striving for spiritual perfection. But the late Ayatollah
Khomeini rebuked Religion of Peace propagandists back in 1942: \'Those
who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those
(who say this) are witless\'\....\"\]

Olberman, Keith. \"Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?\" MSNBC.com,
September 5, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/]{.underline}](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/)

\[Excerpt: \"It is to our deep national shame-and ultimately it will be
to the President\'s deep personal regret-that he has followed his
Secretary of Defense down the path of trying to tie those loyal
Americans who disagree with his policies-or even question their
effectiveness or execution-to the Nazis of the past, and the al Qaeda of
the present.\"\]

Parry, Robert. \"Al-Qaeda\'s \'Simon Says\'.\" Consortiumnews.com,
September 6, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/090506.html]{.underline}](http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/090506.html)

Parry, Robert. \"Election 2006 & World War III.\" Consortiumnews.com,
September 7, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/090606.html]{.underline}](http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/090606.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Bush\'s virtual declaration of war on the Islamic world
ranks as possibly the most ambitious military plan in American
history\... This so-called \"long war,\" which Bush\'s followers hail as
\"World War III,\" would mean fighting large portions of a religious
movement that has the allegiance of about one-sixth of the planet\'s
population.\"\]

Pipes, Daniel. \"Improvising After 9/11.\" Jewish World Review,
September 6, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://jewishworldreview.com/0906/pipes090606.php3]{.underline}](http://jewishworldreview.com/0906/pipes090606.php3)

\[Excerpt: \"The five years since 9/11, in retrospect, have been like a
perpetual workshop in which Americans argue about the nature of their
enemy and how to defeat him. Along the way, they have made plenty of
mistakes, ranging from former secretary of state Colin Powell\'s
claiming that 9/11 \'should not be seen as something done by Arabs or
Islamics,\'

to not allowing an Arab to board an airplane because he wore a t-shirt
bearing Arabic script. What impresses me, however, is how Americans have
constantly, if slowly, improved their understanding of the enemy, as can
be seen in everything from presidential rhetoric to airplane security.
Much of this evolution has been improvised - using existing tools in new
ways, preserving old laws but applying them in new circumstances.\"\]

Pitts, Leonard Jr. \"Don\'t Believe Rumsfeld\'s Fantasy.\" Detroit Free
Press, September 2, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060902/OPINION03/609020326>

\[Excerpt: \"Japan launched a sneak attack that devastated a U.S. naval
base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. And the United States rose in righteous
fury, immediately declaring war on Thailand\...\]

Ross, Brian. \"Pakistan Denies Bin Laden Gets A Pass.\" ABC News,
September 6, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/pakistan_denies.html]{.underline}](http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/pakistan_denies.html)

Sanger, David E. \"Bush\'s Shift of Tone on Iraq: The Grim Cost of
Losing.\" New York Times, 2 Sep 2006. At:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/world/middleeast/02prexy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>

\[Excerpt: \"President Bush\'s newest effort to rebuild eroding support
for the war in Iraq features a distinct shift in approach: Rather than
stressing the benefits of eventual victory, he and his top aides are
beginning to lay out the grim consequences of failure.\"\]

Scheuer, Michael. \"The Western Media\'s Misreading of al-Qaeda\'s
Latest Video.\" Terrorism Focus, Vol. 3, Issue 34, September 6, 2006.
Accessed

at:

[[http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370119]{.underline}](http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370119)

\[Excerpt: \"The primary theme of Western media analysis has been that
the al-Zawahiri-Azzam tape is an effort-some term it a \"PR
campaign\"-to soften al-Qaeda\'s image, to focus more on proselytizing
than on violence. Another theme is a sense of relief that the
journalists and media experts have not been able to find a blatant
\"threat\" in the video, a theme that has been reinforced by an argument
offered by unnamed U.S. officials who point out that Azzam al-Amriki is
not a senior al-Qaeda leader and so his words are not as important as
those of Osama bin Laden and al-Zawahiri. Another theme that seems to
accompany most new al-Qaeda videos has been again expressed about this
one, namely, that the film is an effort by al-Qaeda leaders to keep the
group \"relevant.\" Finally, the fourth theme is a more or less
\"invisible theme\" that entails the Western media\'s traditional
ignoring of the fact that al-Qaeda\'s audience is as much Muslim as
American. After reviewing this media coverage, there are three reasons
to be concerned\....\"\]

Schweid, Barry. \"Rice Likens Iraq and Civil War Critics.\" Associated
Press, September 5, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060905/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/rice_civil_war_3]{.underline}](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060905/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/rice_civil_war_3)

Strobel, Warren P. and Jonathan S. Landay. \"In Afghanistan, The Taliban
and al Qaida Resurge.\" McClatchy Newspapers, September 1, 2006.

Accessed at:

<http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/sept11/15399694.htm>

\[Abstract: \"The Bush administration and allied governments have won
battle after battle, but appear to be in danger of losing the war.\" And
\"a growing number of analysts, many of them former top government
counterterrorism officials, argue that the very notion of a \'war\' on
terrorism is the wrong strategy.\" By \"relying overwhelmingly on bombs
and bullets, they say, the United States has alienated much of the
Muslim world, driving away even moderates who might be open to Western
ideas. The West has largely failed to offer a positive vision or deal
with the root causes of Islamic extremism.\" And \"Many \-- if not most
\-- counterterrorism experts now see the U.S. invasion and bungled
occupation of Iraq as a grave misstep in the struggle against Islamic
extremism.\"\]

Strobel, Warren P. \"Why No New Attacks on the U.S.?\" McClatchy
Newspapers, September 1, 2006. Accessed at:
<http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/sept11/15399760.htm>

\[Excerpt: \"No one knows for sure, of course. But counterterrorism
analysts in and out of government offer three or four theories. Some of
them are comforting, some not\....\" It\'s a short article \-- just read
it.\]

Third Way. \"The Neo-Con: The Bush Defense Record by the Numbers.\"

Washington DC: Third-Way.com, September 2006, 30 pages. Accessed at:

[[http://www.third-way.com/products/58]{.underline}](http://www.third-way.com/products/58)

\[Website description of this report, released yesterday: \"The most
fundamental role of the President is to keep America safe, and five and
half years into the Bush administration, Third Way examines the numbers
behind Bush\'s national security strategy. The report measures seven key
national security indicators: Iraq, terrorism (broadly defined),
Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, the condition of the American military,
and China. The study finds that across the board, the numbers show that
the Bush approach is failing.\"\]

Tucker, Cynthia. \"Bush\'s Deadly Road to Victory Baffles Many.\"
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 3 Sep 2006. At:

<http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/tucker/stories/2006/09/01/090306.html>

Wright, Robin. \"War Backfiring on U.S., Khatami Says.\" Washington
Post, September 6, 2006. At:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090501198.html>

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