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Duelfer Report

• October 12 -- How About Those Pro-Kerry Polls?
Another campaign story embraces recent poll findings -- now that they show Kerry doing better: "But Democrats, buoyed by a week of developments that undercut Mr. Bush's claims of vigorous job growth and his main justification for invading Iraq, said they would not lose the momentum heading into the final debate."

• October 12 -- Bush's "Hang Tough" Decision Echoes Vietnam
David Sanger tries to make a stark campaign issue out of Bush's alleged refusal to admit to mistakes, asserting the decision "has come to look far riskier than it did in the flush of handing Iraq back to Iraqis….Bush's decision to hang tough has echoes of the strategy used by another president from Texas. In the 1968 campaign, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey began edging back from the Johnson Administration's plan to admit no fault with its policy in Vietnam."

• October 11 -- Pity the Put-Upon French in Oil-for-Food Scandal
Steven Weisman looks at the U.N. scandal involving French involvement in the corrupt oil-for-food program as yet another Bush failure of diplomacy: "The Bush administration's handling this week of a report on Saddam Hussein's attempts to purchase weapons and buy influence has angered French officials and set back a year of American efforts to repair the rupture caused by the Iraq war, French and other European officials said Friday."

• October 7 -- "Prewar Assertions…Bore No Resemblance to the Truth."
Toning down Douglas Jehl's story on Iraq before it hit print?