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...backed the war despite overwhelming domestic opposition suffered a major credibility blow when the weapons of mass destruction cited as the reason for invading failed to materialize. Even more damaging was the fact that the occupation, far from a triumphant liberation celebrated by most Iraqis, has turned into a bitter and bloody war of insurgency and counterinsurgency...
...BANNED. FOX HUNTING, a 300-year-old English tradition, after seven years of bitter political debate and legislative maneuvering; by Britain's House of Commons; in London. Despite a last-minute compromise proposal from Prime Minister Tony Blair, Labour Party members pushed through the ban on the grounds that fox hunting was cruel and inhumane. Hunt supporters have vowed to challenge...
...case, the Administration believes that Arafat left Palestinians unprepared to make the concessions required to attain statehood, like restrictions of the number of returning refugees, limited control of Jerusalem and the loss of part of the West Bank. Bush's decision to play it cool for now was a bitter pill for Blair, who went to Washington hoping the U.S. would pay back his unpopular solidarity in Iraq with more assertive peacemaking in Jerusalem. Blair wants to give the Palestinians momentum, but Bush told him, "What we don't want to do is push too far too fast...
...House is working under protest, forced by his hospital administrator (Lisa Edelstein) to spend a few hours a week seeing actual patients face to face. Hobbled by an excruciating leg condition, he pops Vicodin like Tic Tacs as he suffers hypochondriacs with the sniffles. (He does connect with a bitter office worker trying to milk her insurance before she gets fired; admiring her spite, he orders up an expensive, unnecessary scan...
...Saturday the final assault got under way as the Wolf Pack drove farther south, positioned to swing west to complete the sweep of the city. Alpha Company took more casualties, one a key member that was particularly bitter, as the battle's end was so close. As the soldiers evacuated their wounded, military sources said Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was readying to announce the end of combat in the recaptured city. As the fighting in Fallujah dies down, the Wolf Pack and the rest of Task Force 2-2 are due to return to their usual area of operations...