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Maclean's: How Bush Became the New Saddam
TORONTO, Canada, September 22 /PRNewswire/ -- - Attention Business Editors/See CNW Photo Network and Archive: Maclean's, Canada's national current affairs magazine, reports on the brutal realities and strange alliances of the desperate U.S. mission. For his story and more visit http://www.macleans.ca. With so few allies left in Iraq, the U.S. Army seem to be allying themselves with their former enemies - Sunnis from Anbar province. This "Anbar Awakening" has been a slow process, beginning long before the recent U.S. "surge" that increased the number of American troops in Iraq by 30,000, to 180,000. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/pub/s?f=PRN%2Fprnpub&dst=on&page=4&tz=STA5&cols=4&rows=3&thumbsize=128&gbg=white&qs=0&dpi=300 TORONTO, Canada, September 22 /PRNewswire/ -- "But it is still a shaky union," writes Maclean's contributor Patrick Graham, "a desperate marriage of convenience based on shared enemies: Iran, and the Sunnis' former-friend-turned-foe al-Qaeda." Many of America's new allies are former insurgents and Saddam Hussein loyalists (Saddam was a Sunni) who only a short while ago were routinely called terrorists, "anti- Iraqi fighters," and "Baathist dead-enders." They are suspicious of one another and strongly anti-American, although willing to work, for the moment, with the U.S. About Maclean's: Maclean's is Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine. Maclean's enlightens, engages and entertains 2.9 million readers with strong investigative reporting and exclusive stories from leading journalists in the fields of international affairs, social issues, national politics, business and culture. Visit http://www.macleans.ca /NOTE TO PHOTO EDITORS: A photo accompanying this release is available on the CNW Photo Network and archived at http://photos.newswire.ca. Additional archived images are also available on the CNW Photo Archive website at http://photos.newswire.ca. Images are free to accredited members of the media/
