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Retired officials say Bush has made U.S. isolated, distrusted
By Barbara Slavin, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — More than two dozen retired high-level U.S. diplomats and military officials, including many who say they voted for President Bush, Wednesday will issue a harsh indictment of the administration's foreign and defense policies.
"Never in the two and a quarter centuries of our history has the United States been so isolated among the nations, so broadly feared and distrusted," the statement says. The document accuses Bush of adopting "an overbearing approach to America's role in the world" that has weakened U.S. security and "led the United States into an ill-planned and costly war from which exit is uncertain."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-06-15-retired-officials-bush_x....