On The National Review Online Web site last week , a former speechwriter for President Bush , David Frum , another longtime supporter of the war , said that if the United States did not change its policy by significantly increasing troop levels , '' Baghdad -- and therefore central Iraq -- will in such a case slide after Basra and the south into the unofficial new Iranian empire . ''
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