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...when-did-you-stop-beating- your-mistress travails may have made this race competitive for Democrats, but Chris Carney's qualities as a candidate are what make it significant. He is one of more than 50 veterans running for Congress as Democrats this year, eight of whom are Iraq-combat veterans. Carney didn't see action in Iraq, but he was a senior intelligence analyst who served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Indeed, he was one of a core group of military-intelligence officers who studied the Iraqi insurgency over the past three years and have been...
...regional terrorist groups. "There were no links to 9/11," he told me. "But there were plenty of other contacts with terror groups. I always thought that was a better argument for the war than weapons of mass destruction." Carney's politics pretty accurately reflect the views of most Iraq combat veterans running as Democrats. They are not so much antiwar as anti-Bush, furious about the lack of preparation for the war, the insufficient troop levels, the lousy equipment. "I served in Kosovo and had an up-armored humvee," says Jon Soltz, the director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans...
...investigation had nothing to do with his client?s departure from government. White House officials learned about the arrest Friday night from news accounts, and Bush was asked about it Saturday morning when he met briefly with reporters following a Roosevelt Room briefing by military officials on efforts to combat Iraqi insurgents' improvised explosive devices. "If the allegations are true, something went wrong in Claude Allen's life, and that is really sad," Bush said. "When I heard the story last night, I was shocked...
...Winslow Homer was one of the first artists to combat these misconceptions. He was also one of the first—and finest—artists to use watercolor as an independent medium. He is now renowned for his work with the form...
...face to all Latin Americans and is a setback to the rapprochement the U.S. and Mexico have experienced in recent years. This symbolic barrier signifies nothing less than xenophobia and ignorance about the socio-cultural history of the U.S. and its Latin American immigrants. In order to effectively combat undocumented immigration, the U.S. should examine the situation of emigrants within their home countries. America needs to look outside its boundaries and analyze what is forcing people away from their home countries and drawing them here, instead of trying to solve the issue by merely constructing another fence and hoping...