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The military's announcement Tuesday that it would not issue major Iraq reconstruction contracts to countries that didn't support the U.S.-led war was clumsy enough; consider that Canada was included on this updated enemies list. The timing is what puts the ban in the "what were they thinking?" category.
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The ban, laid out in a memo from Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, has blown big holes in the shaky efforts of the Bush administration to seek international help in mending and pacifying Iraq. If Bush didn't know what Wolfowitz was about to do, that's incompetence. If Bush knew, and perhaps even saw it as part of a carrot-and-stick policy, that's foolhardy.
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