Word: buildups
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...identity of a cia officer. The media must hold Bush's feet to the fire until he does what he said he would do. Paul L. Whiteley Sr. Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Lost in the cacophony of media attention surrounding Rove's possible misdeeds is one basic fact: in the buildup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, this Administration misled the American people regarding Iraq's development of nuclear weapons. That important fact is now virtually forgotten. Meanspirited Novak, a shill for the political right, publicly outed Wilson's wife Plame. That was the Administration's first parry to deflect public...
Lost in the cacophony of media attention surrounding Rove's possible misdeeds is one basic fact: in the buildup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, this Administration misled the American people regarding Iraq's development of nuclear weapons. That important fact is now virtually forgotten. Meanspirited Novak, a shill for the political right, publicly outed Wilson's wife Plame. That was the Administration's first parry to deflect public attention. And with the continuing diversion of the American people's attention from the central issue of deception, the Administration is having things just the way it wants...
...DIED. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND, 91, consummate military man who oversaw the buildup of U.S. troops in Vietnam from 1964-68 and was later vilified for it; in Charleston, South Carolina. The strapping West Point graduate led battalions in World War II and Korea, and landed in Vietnam as the great hope of the Johnson Administration. But after the 1968 Tet offensive fueled opposition to the war, he was brought back home to the lower-profile position of Army Chief of Staff. A $120 million libel suit he filed in 1982 against CBS, over a story that said he misled the White...
...last week that his country should strike American cities with nuclear missiles if the U.S. came to the aid of Taiwan in a war with the mainland seemed particularly ill-timed. Beijing's relations with Washington have deteriorated in recent months over trade frictions, fears of a Chinese military buildup, and concerns that a bid by Chinese oil company CNOOC to buy U.S. energy firm Unocal threatens national security. So it came as a shock when People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) Major General Zhu Chenghu, 53, told a group of foreign reporters in Beijing that "if the Americans draw their...
Carrier cited 9/11 and the ensuing downturn of the economy; the buildup to, and the war in, Iraq; China’s SARS virus; and the burst of the technology bubble as reasons people spent less money on travel...