NO HARD LINE HERE

The San Francisco Chronicle writes:

Bush takes hard line on Iraqi rebuild contracts

The fact that German companies don't think that Bush has taken a hard line here (see below) convinces me that the folks at SFC have been sold a bill of goods. Aside from the now desperate attempts to use the policy to bolster the moral resoluteness line, the only effect of this policy is to give other countries something to complain about. Great.