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...fault. Speaking to an audience of intellectuals and foreign policy specialists today, she made the unusual admission that "I know we've made tactical errors - thousands of them, I'm sure. This could have gone that way or that could have gone that way," she remarked in an unusually candid aside. "I've said many, many times I am quite certain that there are going to be dissertations written about the mistakes of the Bush Administration and I will probably even oversee some of them when I go back to Stanford...
...found their targets: a funeral procession, a security checkpoint, and the headquarters of the police major crimes unit. At least 56 people died. While the insurgent enemy's ability to operate had been badly crimped since March 12 by the sprawling urban offensive dubbed Operation Scales of Justice, a candid Major General Rick Lynch - the official U.S. military spokesman in Iraq - admitted,"Today he found gaps...
...spoke to a packed Emerson Hall room about the political tensions and economic ties between Taiwan and China and stressed that maintaining the status quo should be the top priority. A popular figure in Taiwan and abroad—and regarded by many as the most likely Taiwanese presidential candidate in 2008—Ma attracted an audience from across New England. “As a student here, he showed quite mature views about cross-strait relations,” said Ezra F. Vogel, emeritus Ford II research professor of the social sciences and former director of the Fairbank...
...accident to the public was that Cheney had no press officer with him. Why couldn't he write his own statement about something supposedly so straightforward? How could relaying facts be beyond his ability? If only Cheney were committed to truth and transparency, and if only he were candid enough to face the public outside the comfort zone of Fox News. The media overreacted to the delay in reporting the shooting, but Cheney's excuses attest to his secretiveness. William A. McCartney Delaware, Ohio...
...that the Marines deliberately killed innocents in Haditha. But the accounts of human-rights groups that investigated the incident and survivors and local officials who spoke to Time do raise questions about whether the extent of force used by the Marines was justified-and whether the Marines were initially candid about what took place. Dr. Wahid, director of the local hospital in Haditha, who asked that his family name be withheld because, he says, he fears reprisals by U.S. troops, says the Marines brought 24 bodies to his hospital around midnight on Nov. 19. Wahid says the Marines claimed...