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Saturday, June 23, 2007 12:00 AM

Everyone we fight in Iraq is now "al-Qaida"

A change in the way the Bush administration and military commanders refer to "the enemy" in Iraq has been almost immediately adopted by the media.
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  • Saturday, June 23, 2007 06:55 AM

    The past recaptured

    To amplify slightly but not insignificantly: since Odierno in your benchmark NYT citation ties our current exploits against the eternal enemy to the grand battle of Fallujah II, "anyone we fight" also means anyone we ever fought.

    The moving finger writes, and having writ, -- every word of it is subject to re-write until just the one story remains.

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