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...University football games and that he later graduated from Rice and Harvard Law School. We were introduced to his splendid family. And we also learned that Gonzales was complicit, at the very least, in the Bush Administration's decision to use severe physical interrogation techniques on detainees at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere...
...Palestinians like Sharaf, the election on Jan. 9 may represent the best chance in years to chart a new direction, away from Arafat's legacy of conflict and misrule and toward a more prosperous, peaceful future. Abbas, 69, popularly known as Abu Mazen, has pledged to curb violence and exact agreements from Israel to ease conditions in the occupied territories. That position has earned him the backing of the U.S. and the support of a majority of likely voters, for whom the election is as much about putting food on the table as it is about ideology. Polls show Abbas...
JEREMY SIVITS, former Army reservist, testifying about abuse of inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq...
...Iraq, a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, Social Security private accounts, restricted federal funding of stem-cell research. The most he would do is hint that radioactive Attorney General John Ashcroft wouldn't make it to a second Bush presidency. But even at the height of the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal, Bush would not consider calls to dump Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "If you're wasting your time coming up with a way to recommend this, don't," he told a bunch of top aides in an Oval Office meeting. "And you make sure other people know this...
...Bush camp was hearing all this and debating the price of admission. "It was one that we constantly talked about," says a senior White House adviser. "During Abu Ghraib, people were calling for people's heads," says another, "and the President was unwilling to just fire somebody because it would satisfy people." Besides, Bush thought people were basically looking for him to call the whole Iraq invasion a mistake, which he was not about to do. Privately, he did acknowledge there had been blunders, but that didn't mean it made sense to say so publicly. At the second presidential...