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Bush's flip-flops add new confusion to the budget battle and raise doubts about his domestic leadership

The question is perhaps best left to psychiatrists, but last week Congressmen, Senators, White House aides and millions of Americans were trying to answer it. How could George Bush -- the World War II bomber pilot, the Commander in Chief who invaded Panama and ousted its dictator, the leader who dispatched more than 200,000 U.S. troops to the Persian Gulf and ably assembled an international alliance to confront Saddam Hussein -- be so wishy- washy?

As Congress squabbled in search of a budget, Bush during three dizzying days switched his position at least four times on the key question of what...

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