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Mullen To Iraqis: Please Take This Basing Deal!

By | 10.21.08 | 12:53 pm

If there’s been one cardinal Bush administration tenet for negotiations, it’s been Not To Negotiate With Yourself.

In practice, that’s meant presenting your reputed negotiating “partners” with a fait accompli, or telling them that it’s our way or no deal. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work well when you don’t More…