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...also knows why. As executive director of the order, he surveyed more than 300 members in conjunction with their first national convention, held in Branson, Mo., in July. Among the questions he posed to his fellow Santas: How many years have you been wearing the red suit? (Answer: 12, on average.) How many children do you greet during a typical holiday season? (An average of 5,318.) What does Santa drive? (Pickups are the top ride; 14% also have a motorcycle...
...Gates's answer was important. In Levin's view, Maliki's statement reinforced the Democrats' own arguments to begin a gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces. "There's no military solution here now," Levin explained to TIME last week. "There's only a political solution now. That's why we should not put so much emphasis on a military solution and we should force the politicians to reach some kind of compromise on Iraq...
...Gates later hedged on some of his blunt opening words. After asserting that the U.S. is not winning the war, he added that U.S. forces are not necessarily losing. And after watching TV news accounts of his jarring opening answer during a lunch break, Gates returned in the afternoon with a hasty caveat that the soldiers on the ground in Iraq have won every individual battle they've fought. His no-win comment, he maintained, "pertains to the situation in Iraq as a whole...
...Iraq. When Gates visited the country as part of the Iraq Study Group, he said, all the ground commanders told him they "thought they had adequate troops." Gates quickly added that if confirmed he'd be going back to Iraq to see if he would get "a more candid answer" from ground commanders on troop levels. He also pronounced himself "very open" to the idea of increasing the strength of the Army and Marine Corps, whose personnel and equipment are wearing out from...
What exactly can President Bush expect as a result of his White House meeting Monday with Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, the Iraqi Shi'ite leader? The blunt answer: probably not much more than came out of his discussion last week with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. If the President is hoping al-Hakim will be any more favorably inclined toward U.S. interests than the Prime Minister is, Bush is in for frustrating time. A hardline Islamist, Al-Hakim has frequently given fiery anti-American speeches, denouncing U.S. policies in Iraq, Lebanon and Israel...