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...Krauthammer missed the point. It is whether Bush, because of his privileged background, was given a soft posting while others were sent to Vietnam and whether he failed to serve his country fully. It is fine for a President to talk about patriotism and land on aircraft-carrier decks, but it is not so good for that same President to appear to have had a different standard when it was his turn to serve his country. Mahomed Ladha London...
...billion Amount spent over 21 years on the U.S.'s recently cancelled Comanche-helicopter program. No operational aircraft was ever produced...
...accused Bush's team of ignoring the important caveats that accompanied intelligence estimates about Iraq's suspected WMD. Analysts with Air Force intelligence, for instance, took issue with the assertion--hinted at by President Bush in a speech in October 2002--that Iraq was building a fleet of unmanned aircraft with which to deploy its chemical and biological arsenal. During a Feb. 5 speech at Georgetown University, CIA Director George Tenet cited the NIE, insisting, "Analysts differed on several important aspects of these programs, and those debates were spelled out in the estimate." The panel wants to see whether...
...Palestinian land." The barrier strays from the Green Line that has demarcated the two sides since a 1949 armistice. Israel says the fence must jut into Palestinian lands to ensure security; the barrier's route near Ben Gurion International Airport, for instance, is meant to prevent attacks on departing aircraft. But German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer summed up the E.U. view in a recent interview with al-Jazeera: "Every government has the duty to defend its population against terrorism. And if a fence or a wall is needed to do this, that's a decision of the national government. However...
Kerry's best lines--his only memorable lines, in fact--have been testosterone-laden attacks on the President: "I know something about aircraft carriers for real, Mr. President" and "This Administration has run the most reckless, arrogant, inept and ideological foreign policy of modern history" and, of course, "Bring it on." The Senator doesn't do so well describing how he would clean up the mess in Iraq or at home. He has the regulation roster of plans and programs; some, like his energy-independence plan, are quite good. But he hasn't yet figured out how to explain them...