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Slate's War Stories: Deconstructing Bush's Speech

President Bush hoped to bolster support for the war in Iraq in a nationally televised address Tuesday night to soldiers at the Fort Bragg U.S. Army base in North Carolina. Alex Chadwick gets opinion and analysis of the speech from Slate military affairs writer Fred Kaplan.

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For more than 30 years, Alex Chadwick has been bringing the world to NPR listeners as an NPR News producer, program host and currently senior correspondent. He's reported from every continent except Antarctica.
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