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In one, "How Bush decided on the surge, " Fred Barnes describes how US President George W. Bush decided to adopt a new strategy for winning the campaign in Iraq.
Australia should have scored a second try when Barnes failed to find one of six support players before flanker George Smith, playing his 100th Test, dropped the ball just short of the line.