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...term - sends the wrong message to the enemy, says the President - conservative columnist Robert Novak claims administration sources have told him the Bush administration plans to withdraw from Iraq next year. (This being the same Robert Novak through whom senior administration officials allegedly named Valerie Plame, the wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson of Niger uranium probe fame, as a CIA agent.) Novak says his administration sources tell him that Iraq's election, scheduled for January, will be used as a pretext for withdrawing, even though the insurgency will still be raging and civil war will result. While some of what...
...year career at the state department, Donald W. Keyser became known as a master of the diplomatic cable. "He is without doubt the fastest and most impressive drafter of telegrams and memos I have ever dealt with," says Winston Lord, the former U.S. ambassador to China for whom Keyser worked in Beijing during the late 1980s. But on Sept. 1, 2003, Keyser whipped off a note that would shatter his professional reputation. E-mailing his superior, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly, Keyser said he planned to take three days of annual leave because...
...Setting the Record Straight Shadowy Suspect "The Plot Thickens" [Aug. 23], about suspected terrorist Adnan el-Shukrijumah, said he was born in Guyana. He was born in Saudi Arabia, according to the Ambassador of Guyana...
...question of whether Bush got preferential treatment as the son of a Texas Congressman and later the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Ben Barnes, a former speaker of the Texas House, has long been on record saying he did. After years of denying he had done anything special for Bush, he reluctantly said in a 1999 deposition that he had pushed to get Bush into the Guard at the request of a friend of the Bush family. Recently, Barnes, who has become a fund raiser for Kerry, has again spoken out about the matter, acknowledging at a Texas rally...
...good for NATO or for Iraq." But supporters of NATO involvement insist an Iraq mission is crucial for both Iraq's and the alliance's future. "What kind of military organization would we be if we shied away from the central security challenges of our time?" says U.S. ambassador to NATO Nicholas Burns. The question came to a head last week in Brussels, when ambassadors from NATO's 26 members discussed a report from the 40-member NATO Training Implementation Mission that's been in Iraq since August to assess how best to train the nascent Iraqi army. If they...