Foreign Correspondence

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This just a repost of something i just posted on Nothing But Politics--i do this because i can not underestimate how important this matter is---it over rides all else, imo.
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from article posted by Laird--this to highlight how much is pivoting on this attempt to crush Najaf resistence.Najaf is at this time the single most relevant issue to the election, eyes need be focussed on this to the maximum.By saying of such importance, i mean all discusssions on why or why not Bush will win the election are now irrelevant; all the chips are on the table in Najaf.
i will in next post give link to the Michael Swchartz extensive report
<<Our presidential election could be decided by this battle. President Bush's approval ratings dropped 10% during the April and May battles, creating the opening for a Kerry victory. Since then they have neither recovered, nor deteriorated further. If the battle for Najaf dominates the headlines for as long as a week, it will likely be the next big event in the Presidential campaign. A resounding victory for American forces could be exactly what Karl Rove has been dreaming of -- proof that the tide has turned in Iraq. At the very least, it might remove the subject from the front pages of American papers and drop it down the nightly network prime-time news for a suitable period of time. But a defeat as ignominious as Falluja -- or even a bloody and destructive victory bought at the expense of worldwide outrage -- would almost certainly drive away many remaining swing voters (and might weaken the resolve of small numbers of Republican voters as well). This would leave Bush where his father was going into the electoral stretch drive --in too deep a deficit for any campaign rhetoric to overcome>>