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AL-IRSHAD: “Issue One! The American midterm elections! Republicans out! Democrats in! What does this mean for the future of the American war against Islam? I ask you, Most Exalted Imam Qu’Turush.”

QU’TURUSH: “Honestly, two things. One, that the Bush administration simply lost sight of its main objective, which was to maintain a certain level of domestic popularity with tax cuts and small-bore initiatives in order to pursue its plans in Iraq and the Middle East in general. It was a political miscalculation.”

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AL-IRSHAD: “Issue One! The American midterm elections! Republicans out! Democrats in! What does this mean for the future of the American war against Islam? I ask you, Most Exalted Imam Qu’Turush.”

QU’TURUSH: “Honestly, two things. One, that the Bush administration simply lost sight of its main objective, which was to maintain a certain level of domestic popularity with tax cuts and small-bore initiatives in order to pursue its plans in Iraq and the Middle East in general. It was a political miscalculation.”