The re-election process of US President George W. Bush is being endangered by repeated attacks against US forces deployed in Iraq, a US expert on Arab issues told Costa Rica's newspaper National on Sunday.
The present troubling situation in Iraq and repeated insurgent attacks against US soldiers are threatening Bush's re-election process in November next year, said Husein Ibish, director of Communications of Arabian-American Committee against Discrimination.
The US forces' military occupation in Iraq is an important factor affecting next year's presidential election, despite the fact that Bush's re-election is heavily dependent on whether the US economy gains steam.
The Iraq war might be a potential tragedy for those who started the war as all excuses leading to the war are based on illusive information, he said, adding that those people are losing credibility for they failed to show weapons of mass destruction inIraq and to prove the ties between the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime and the terrorist group Al-Qaeda...
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