CNN's Baghdad reporter: Beware of 'smoke and mirrors from the administration'

Bush is using fear in an attempt to get the US public to support the war and seeing success where there is none.

"Is there a sea-change in Baghdad?" Ware concluded. "Well, if he's seeing one, I'm afraid I'm not. Maybe you can see it from the Green Zone, but you can't see it out here in the Red Zone where Iraqis live."

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