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Toward the end of the debate, Ramaswamy spurred a verbal altercation when he asked an audience member’s written question about whether the Democrats thought the 57,000 civilian casualties in Iraq were “acceptable.” The Republicans cried foul and insisted the question should have been directed at them. After a brief shouting match, both sides managed to restore order in time for closing statements...
...ranking U.S. Army reservist accused in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal; to eight years in jail by a court-martial; at Camp Victory in western Baghdad. His sentence also includes a reduction in rank to private, a forfeiture of pay and a dishonorable discharge. Frederick, a corrections officer in civilian life, is one of seven charged in the scandal and the third to be convicted; his sentence is the longest to date...
...TIME: Should the military be placed under the Defense Ministry to ensure greater civilian control? SBY: This is a time of political transition. At the right time the military has to be placed beneath the Defense Ministry to ensure that politicians are the policymakers and that the Defense Minister determines the military policy and budget. But we have to make sure that a civilian Defense Minister knows how to separate military and political matters. As long as the military is not under the Defense Ministry, I will make sure that communication and coordination is solid between the defense minister...
...Europeans will ask Iran to give up all uranium enrichment activities - permissible as part of its civilian energy program under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Tehran subscribes, but also the key component of any potential bomb program - in exchange for Western undertakings to supply and remove (spent) nuclear fuel. It will also offer trade deals, and possibly a light-water nuclear reactor (which can't produce bomb-grade material), and other unspecified sweeteners. Iran, which denies developing a bomb program but nonetheless insists on its right to develop the full range of nuclear energy infrastructure permissible under...
...program has stirred up strong nationalist feelings in Iran, and support from much of the developing world for Tehran's position. Many of the developing nations who are signatory to the NPT see hypocrisy in the Western position, on the grounds that the treaty's purpose was to promote civilian nuclear energy, and pursue universal nuclear disarmament, not to maintain the nuclear-weapons monopoly of what had once been the Big Five but now looks more like the Big Eight (or Nine, if North Korea's claims are to be believed). Tehran also likes to draw Israel into the equation...