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</html><description>Jim Lobe once again has the best article summing up how "Bush Is Under Growing Pressure to Engage Syria" October 28, 2006. He maintains that the hawks centered in the National Security Council, particularly Elliot Abrams, and Vice President Dick Cheney's office, notably his national security adviser, John Hannah, and Middle East specialist, David Wurmser, [&hellip;]</description><thumbnail_url>http://www.nybooks.com/images/20061116-bush.gif</thumbnail_url></oembed>

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