Posted here Wednesday, May 05, 2004 at 9:26:37 AM 
A lack of Bush leadership in Mideast media.. here is a very good longish article describing the attempts and the failures. It looks like this never had high profile. And my view is that in the non-conversational follow the chain administration, nothing has high profile.
http://www.techcentralstation.com/050304B.html
And this excellent description, also from counterpunch
Against an impressive amount of warnings, from a wide variety of sources, including the intelligence community, as to the complexity of the Iraqi situation and the high risks involved in letting loose, imprudently, the long-compressed popular dynamics in that country, the Bush administration chose to listen only to a very specific set of "experts": the Pentagon's friends among the Iraqi opposition in exile. The most symptomatic of them in my view is Kanan Makiya-a man who has much been quoted as part of a neocon cabal led by former "Trotskyites" that took the helm of U.S. foreign policy, according to a somewhat phantasmagoric view propagated by both liberal and conservative circles.
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