Ally's Timing Is Awkward for Bush

As the British announced the beginning of their departure from Iraq yesterday, President Bush's top foreign policy aide proclaimed it "basically a good-news story." Yet for an already besieged White House, the decision was doing a good job masquerading as a bad-news story.
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Jonathan Weisman and Peter Baker

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