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Tuesday, August 7, 2007 12:00 AM

A surge of phony spin on Iraq

Bush's backers are peddling a sunny view of the president's strategy -- despite Iraq's political chaos and soaring death counts.
By Juan Cole

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  • Tuesday, August 7, 2007 10:15 AM

    I second the "It's not phony spin" motion

    It's actual spin.

    But what's being spun is phony, as the content of spin often is.

    —just john Read just john's other letters

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