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...Bush's credibility gap is between his ears. He was hell bent on going to war with Iraq and had made the decision months earlier. British Prime Minister Tony Blair was equally stupid. I don't pretend to know how they can get out of the mess in Iraq, but Bush wants to solve Iraq's problems in time for his re-election campaign. It won't happen, and lots more Iraqis and British and American soldiers will lose their lives. Because of all their ethnic divisions, the Iraqis need a dictator, although not an evil one like Saddam...
...last month, the Bush Administration proceeded cautiously. The U.S. and Aristide have held a mutual grudge since his re-election in 2000: Aristide blames Haiti's misery on the fact that Washington has withheld $500 million in desperately needed aid. But the White House points to Aristide's despotic bent, including his failure to hold new parliamentary elections after several Lavalas members won fraud-tainted races...
...killer Jeffrey Dahmer by the organization’s leadership—to adopt more humane methods of slaughtering animals. They seem more concerned about launching shock campaigns to convince (vainly) Americans to go vegan. In any case, it would be fallacious to think of PETA as an organization bent on saving animals’ lives. To this goal, less than 1 percent of PETA’s annual budget is dedicated...
More than 270 Iraqis died in a wave of terrorist carnage Tuesday, and Coalition officials are expecting a lot more bad news as July draws near. That, British and U.S. officials say, is because those bent on sabotaging a transition to democracy in Iraq have planned a terror campaign designed to provoke a civil war before the Coalition restores sovereignty to an Iraqi authority on July 1. The good news, though, may be that mass killings of innocent civilians, such as the latest twin bombings directed at Shiite worshippers in Kerbala and Baghdad, may actually help the Coalition maintain...
...might say, for instance, that Brian Palmer plays fast and loose with academics, that his class is bent more around liberal ideology than scholarly pursuits. To which, he and his supporters chime in, “you bet.” At every Palmer event I’ve attended (about five), he references a New York Times article which labels his class, appropriately, “Idealism 101” and distributes a Christian Science Monitor expose that depicts him as a liberal ideologue in and outside the classroom. He was a featured speaker at Harvard?...