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Byline: Trudy Rubin
Here's how I imagine the scene when President Bush appears in Madison Square Garden at the Republican National Convention.
The President will be addressing the crowd from a circular stage, but above him will float the barely visible shadows of three bearded men in turbans. Two will be Iraqis: Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, the preeminent Shiite cleric, and his radical challenger, Muqtada al-Sadr. Behind both of them hovers the gaunt figure of Osama bin Laden.
These three men may not be physically present at the convention, but they will play a key role in whether Bush wins a second term.
For the first time since the Vietnam era, national security is the central issue in a presidential election, according to a poll released this month by the Pew Research Center. Four out of ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The three specters over Bush's reelection.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)