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...Bush and his military leaders have made it clear they want U.S. forces to remain in Iraq for the foreseeable future without a significant hike in troop levels. That, defense officials say, is unlikely to change the dynamic on the ground and - absent some political push that achieves a semblance of peace - is only likely to continue the grim parade of the flag-draped coffins of U.S. troops into Dover Air Force Base...
...three years. Now, with the addition of Shi'ite and Sunni militias fighting for control of Baghdad, the U.S. military doesn't have the firepower, or, it seems, the stomach to launch a battle for control of the Iraqi capital. Given the current situation on the ground, and absent an Iraqi initiative to turn matters around, it's likely that U.S. forces will continue to bleed and die until Bush tosses in the towel - or the new Democrat-controlled Congress forces...
...Iraqi Army was conspicuously absent, for example, in the Hurriya neighborhood, where rampaging Shi'ite militias damaged Sunni mosques and allegedly immolated worshipers. In Hurriya and elsewhere, many Iraqis reported that the Iraqi soldiers either melted away when the militias arrived - or worse, stood by and watched as they attacked Sunnis. The Shi'ite-majority Iraqi police are frequently accused of joining in the killing of Sunnis...
...Hwang, Wong, Musa, Ross-Rieder, and Wimberley—are not current or former UC members. Including Goldenberg and Gillis, who joined the UC this semester, more than half of all presidential candidates have less than one semester’s experience serving in the Council. Noticeably absent from the UC tickets are FiCom chair Lori M. Adelman ’08 and SAC vice chair Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, both of whom have been active members of the UC since their freshman years. Adelman’s absence reduces the number of female candidates on this...
...undecided. Republicans have clung to this math hard in recent days, with even Karl Rove pointing to electoral history to prove that things could have been worse. But Republicans spent most of the year boasting about how the redistricting of the past decade had made them all but bulletproof. Absent those new district lines, says the American Enterprise Institute's Norm Ornstein, "it could easily have been 45 or more." And there are other results that break with past patterns, Ornstein adds. Democrats did not lose a single seat - a feat the party had not accomplished since 1922. Even...