BUSH: Saddam Husein will not change and will continue playing. The moment has arrived for removing him. I will try to use more subtle rhetoric while we await the approval of the resolution… Saddam Hussein is not being disarmed. We must take to him right now. We have shown an incredible degree of patience so […]
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Senator Craig to Stay in Senate, for Now After arguments were heard in court today in Minneapolis, in which lawyers for Senator Larry Craig sought to undo his guilty plea in the airport restroom case, Mr. Craig issued a brief statement that was posted on his Senate Web site: “Today was a major step in […]
Senate Endorses Plan to Divide IraqAction Shows Rare Bipartisan Consensus Showing rare bipartisan consensus over war policy, the Senate overwhelmingly endorsed a political settlement for Iraq that would divide the country into three semi-autonomous regions. The plan, conceived by Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), was approved 75-23 as a non-binding resolution, […]
Bush threatened nations that did not back Iraq war: report In a private conversation at his Texas ranch in early 2003, President Bush said he was committed to invading Iraq whether or not the United Nations passed another resolution condemning Saddam Hussein, a Spanish Language newspaper reported Wednesday. "Saddam Husein will not change and will […]
Ex-commander in Iraq cites leadership crisis in U.S. Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez said Saturday there is a "crisis in national political leadership" and that partisanship is preventing a strategy that would help the U.S. take on the threat of Islamic extremism. Sanchez, who spent a tumultuous year as the top U.S. commander in Iraq, […]
Islam and Democracy The relationship between Islam and democracy is strongly debated among the people who identify with the Islamic resurgence in the late twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. Some of these Islamists believe that “democracy” is a foreign concept that has been imposed by Westernizers and secular reformers upon Muslim societies. […]
I guess I need to admit how ignorant I am about the internal structure of of the Islamic religion. When we hear about Iraq, for example, the Shiites and Sunnis sound more like warring ethnic groups than sects of a religion. And in Iraq, there’s a third group, the Kurds, which are an actual ethnic […]
Karl Rove has gone. Donald Rumsfeld‘s flown thee coup. Alberto Gonzales isn’t with us anymore. Paul Wolfowitz disappeared from the world stage. The Sunday Talk Show hosts didn’t want Condi Rice on their shows last weekend. Even the lightweights like John Bolton and Douglas Feith are quiet for the moment. General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker […]