Word: buildups
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...kidnapping of a group of Western advisors from a Finance Ministry office by an unidentified group of Iraqi insurgents on Tuesday is the most brazen such operation in Baghdad since the U.S. military's buildup, or "surge," strategy began earlier this year. Police sources told TIME that "dozens" of kidnappers, dressed in police uniforms, arrived in a large fleet of cars and snatched four Germans and their Iraqi translator. CNN, meanwhile, is reporting that the abducted Westerners are British...
...Bush Administration's buildup of U.S. forces in Baghdad has yielded some tentatively encouraging results: sectarian violence in the capital has decreased in the past month, and some displaced residents have started to return home. But in places like Diyala, the surge is having the opposite effect. The increased U.S. presence in Baghdad has pushed many Sunni and Shi'ite fighters out of the city into areas where they have found roles in ongoing battles, launched new assaults on U.S. and Iraqi troops and infected the civilian population with sectarian hate. Colonel David Sutherland, commander of U.S. forces in Diyala...
...Bush Administration is doing nothing to allay Tehran's paranoia. With the largest buildup in the Gulf since the start of this Iraq war, it's actually fanning it. You have to wonder if Bush is counting on the Iranians' overreacting the way they did when they seized our embassy in 1979. And lest we forget, this was driven by paranoia that we were plotting to destroy the revolution...
...Ahead of its time" is an overused phrase, but Norman Lear's soap-opera satire, which debuted in 1976, would work on HBO today. Louise Lasser is the eponymous housewife, anesthetized by TV and horrified by the "waxy yellow buildup" on her kitchen floor. The show immerses you in a surreal, quaint-but-sordid small-town setting that makes Desperate Housewives look like Leave It to Beaver...
...Being embraced by the Establishment isn't such a good thing when the Establishment is in disrepute. And on the biggest issue on which McCain has shown backbone and hasn't wavered - his support for the war and Bush's troop buildup - he happens to find himself on the opposite side of the fence from 72% of Americans in the latest TIME poll...