12 Reasons Why President Bush Should Lead Iraq

By Patt Morrison

Published April 15, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

Commentator Patt Morrison says the next leader of Iraq should be President George Bush himself. She claims Iraq and Texas have more in common that one might think. This is one of Morning Edition's occasional commentaries in a series offering a range of opinions on the war in Iraq.

Patt Morrison

Patt Morrison is a writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, where her work has spanned topics from national political profiles and campaign coverage to the O.J. Simpson case, the Los Angeles riots, the Persian Gulf war, the Olympics, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Super Bowl, and Britain's royal family, including the death and funeral of the Princess of Wales.

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