For a wartime president, George Bush has been relatively sparing in his use of the bully pulpit. But on May 24th he travelled to the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to give the first of six speeches explaining his administration's policy in Iraq. The speech was a difficult balancing act. He tried to prepare Americans for more dismal news to come-particularly in the period around the transfer of sovereignty on June 30th. But he also tried to persuade them that his administration knows what it is doing.
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