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...even Dakota Fanning doesn't hit every one out of the park and, man, Shirley could tap-dance--dance away the Depression, some said, or at least the depression in Hollywood. Here's a three-part dose of optimism from the New Deal's youngest and most potent ambassador...
...been," Downer said of the government's willingness to cooperate with the Cole Inquiry and a U.N. commission headed by Paul Volcker. That's strange. At first, Downer did not let Volcker's people interview dfat officers or have full access to documents. (Through Australia's U.N. Ambassador, Volcker complained early last year that the government's cooperation was "beyond reticent, even forbidding.") After Howard weighed in, investigators got proper access...
...Saddam Hussein.Yet once again the halls of Washington ring with calls for “regime change,” this time in Iran. On March 7, Vice President Dick Cheney threatened ominously that “all options [are] on the table.” The hawkish U.S. Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, warned of “tangible and painful consequences” for Iran and lobbied the use of “all available means to stop the threat of the Iranian regime.” Last week, President Bush reaffirmed his disastrous doctrine...
...over security responsibilities to those same police units as quickly as possible. That has raised the distinct and disturbing possibility that the U.S. is in fact training and arming one side in a conflict seeming to grow worse by the day. "Militias are the infrastructure of civil war," U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told TIME recently. Khalilzad has been publicly critical of Jabr and warned that the new security ministries under the next, permanent Iraqi government should be run by competent people who have no ties to militias and who are "non-sectarian." Further U.S. support for training the police...
...that, Gompert puts the blame squarely on the Iraqi government, then under Iyad Allawi, as well as the American embassy. With the U.S. military engaged in several major operations in 2004 and the government transitioning from the CPA to a more traditional diplomatic presence with the arrival of U.S. ambassador John Negroponte at the end of June, Gompert says, neither Allawi nor the U.S made the reintegration program a priority. Job training programs run by Allawi's Labor Ministry were cancelled over personal feuds and pension programs and other aspects of the program of DDR - "demilitarization, demobilization and reintegration" - were...