USA Today Cracks First

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USA Today has become the first major U.S. newspaper to publish a call for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, with USA Today's founder Al Neuharth editorializing that the war is "the biggest military mess miscreated in the Oval Office and miscarried by the Pentagon in my 80-year lifetime." In addition, Neuharth advises President Bush to take a cue from Lyndon B. Johnson and announce that he will not run for re-election. In a separate interview with Editor and Publisher magazine, Neuharth explained that he is "just an old fighting infantryman, saying our troops don't have a real fighting chance."