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More because that was when the first impact was about to be felt of the Labour government's grotesque miscalculation about the numbers arriving from the New Europe.

Mr. Bush's comment came only a few days after an interview with The New York Times in which he acknowledged a "miscalculation" about the evolution of the insurgency in Iraq, saying no one could have anticipated that a swift military victory would allow forces loyal to Saddam Hussein and others to melt into the cities and attack American forces.

Senator John Edwards, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, said on Sunday that President Bush's concession that he had made a "miscalculation" about the occupation of Iraq gave the Kerry campaign a new theme for the remaining 65 days of the campaign: a chance to catalog other missteps that the Democrats say Mr. Bush has yet to acknowledge.

"The failures of judgment, the miscalculations, the failures of command, the miscalculation about the numbers of troops needed to win the peace, the miscalculation about not having a plan to win the peace, the miscalculation of sending troops over there without adequate armor, with Humvees that aren't armored," Mr. Kerry clicked off his litany of complaints.

"I made some slight miscalculations about the date," Mr. Rabanne said, noting that he had yet to tell Parisians to unpack and feel safe.

It is likely that this war won't be remembered as much for ideology and deception as for gross miscalculations about the challenge of nation-building and the capricious nature of freedom.

But analysts say some miscalculations about the nature of the militant networks have landed Pakistan in a catch-22 situation.

The override also represents a White House miscalculation about Capitol Hill, where it was slow to pressure members and see the cracks in its firewall against the bill.

The White House strategy on the sequester was built around a familiar miscalculation about Republicans.

There is reason to believe that, at least in certain units, massive and, in retrospect, excessive firepower was employed, the apparent result of a miscalculation about how, and where, Hamas fighters were likely to engage in combat.

It was clear four years ago, when Obama made his big visit to Moscow, that he and Putin were never going to be close, especially with the Obama Administration making a major miscalculation about who could really run Russia.