 US President George W Bush hides behind a curtain of camouflage before being announced to speak to the troops at Al-Asad Air Base in Anbar Province, Iraq. However much he hides, Bush cannot avoid confronting the gargantuan troubles now besetting him at home and abroad - all the way, even, to Australia (photo: AFP) parent page (6 - 12 September 2007, issue #861) |