Worldview | The 'confusion' is in Bush's policy

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http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/special_packages/sunday_review/15480274.htm

Worldview | The 'confusion' is in Bush's policy
By Trudy Rubin
Inquirer Columnist

Of all the misleading speeches about terrorism given by the Bush team in the lead-up to the 9/11 anniversary, the prize for chutzpah goes to Donald H. Rumsfeld.

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Moral and intellectual confusion?

Rumsfeld's text and the pre-9/11 speeches by President Bush are riddled with both - to the detriment of America's safety. What makes these speeches so unnerving is the possibility the Bush team really believes everything it is saying. If so, you should truly fear for America's security over the next three years.

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...But since he won't take responsibility for his mistakes, the president has little chance of rallying a majority around his Iraq policy.

Why should Americans believe he will do better in the future? Especially when his team denounces critics as "appeasers" - and he paints a simplistic picture of the coming struggle.

The worst of it is that the president may indeed believe what he says.