Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Have we been here before?

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/opinion/9450178.htm

The Bush campaign is pelting John Kerry with dead cats because of his promise to wage a more "sensitive" war on terrorism -- Democrats tend to think in the vocabulary of the therapeutic society and its "caring professions." But the Bush administration is simultaneously struggling to balance the competing imperatives of economizing American lives and waging a war sensitive to the religious sensibilities at stake in the struggle for control of Najaf...

Untenable even before what may be coming before November: an Iraqi version of the North Vietnamese Tet offensive of 1968. To say that the coming offensive will be by "Baathists" is, according to one administration official, akin to saying "Nazis" when you mean "the SS": the most fearsome of the Nazis.

Such an offensive could make Sadr's insurgency seem a minor irritant.