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...jointly honor the 6 million dead. - By William Boston Temporary Sanity SPAIN Spanish AIDS campaigners were surprised and delighted when Father Juan Antonio Martínez Camino, secretary-general of the Spanish Catholic Church's Episcopal Conference, appeared to reverse Church policy by approving the use of condoms to combat the spread of the disease. But less than 24 hours later - following reports that Camino had received a sharp rebuke from the Vatican - the Episcopal Conference issued a statement denying any change. Wave of Inaction FRANCE Schools and government offices across the country closed as teachers and civil servants went...
...told an influential Sunni clerical group in early January after the imams said they would consider calling off their boycott of the vote in return for a pullout schedule. But the Pentagon is accelerating plans to embed U.S. military advisers with Iraqi security forces in hopes of improving their combat capabilities so that they can take over for U.S. troops. "The most important goal is to get the Iraqis into the fight, not to get our numbers down," says a senior Pentagon official. "I hope no one has to continue dying for this war, but it is much better that...
...bombing of a police graduation ceremony show that the insurgents do not enjoy the widespread popular support sometimes claimed but rather are resorting to fear-inducing attacks to cow the population into submission. Attacks on Iraqi civilians often yield as many casualties as an entire month’s combat operations for United States forces. Alternately kidnapping, beheading, blowing up, or shooting in the back of the head the people whose “hearts and minds” you are trying to win is not exactly a recipe for success...
...hard as it will be to bare any additional American casualties, we should not despair. We can, and I believe will, prevail in Iraq but only if we fortify ourselves and realize that next week might very likely be the most destabilized time seen since the end of major combat operations. Changing a country from a totalitarian dictatorship to a democracy is a radical step, and the first election will be the most difficult. Over 1,300 Americans have given their lives in Iraq; over the coming weeks we will be given the opportunity to make their sacrifice meaningful...
...Year I appreciate your choice of president Bush as Person of the Year for 2004 [Dec. 27-Jan. 3]. I would add the following reason to those you stated: his farsighted vision. Since 9/11, Bush has been the only world leader with a clear plan for how to face, combat and eventually defeat terrorism. His critics have so far only demonized him but never offered any serious alternative strategies for winning or even waging the war on terrorism. Bush has a great chance in his second term to continue to implement his plans for a final victory in that...