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Was President Bush's Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad political?(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* Was President Bush's Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad political? Was it designed to provide an image--Bush serving turkey and fixings to troops--to supplant an earlier one--Bush on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, in front of the banner declaring "Mission Accomplished"? The answer to both questions is yes, and why not? Politics at its most serious is about intentions and the means to achieve them; as circumstances change, so must the means. When Bush landed on the Lincoln on May 1, a mission had been accomplished: As Bush said, "major combat ...

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