[Mb-civic] A Central Pillar of Iraq Policy Crumbling

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A Central Pillar of Iraq Policy Crumbling 
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Bush's administration has insisted that political progress would quell the insurgency. But the reverse may be true, U.S. analysts say.

By Tyler Marshall and Louise Roug
Times Staff Writers

October 9 2005

WASHINGTON — Senior U.S. officials have begun to question a key presumption of American strategy in Iraq: that establishing democracy there can erode and ultimately eradicate the insurgency gripping the country. 

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