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After embracing Chalabi as the potential leader of the new Iraq, we have discovered the ways in which he may have been working against us. Chalabi's disinformation helped persuade Bush to attack Iraq. I commend the President for his courage in disowning one who sat in the presidential box during the January 2004 State of the Union message. I don't envy the decisions our President has to make, but I admire his willingness to move beyond some of the earlier errors in this whole enterprise. WILLIAM A. MCCARTNEY Delaware, Ohio...
...Eliot forfeited one event all year—a fall tennis match,” Spies said. “That’s pretty amazing and something to commend in and of itself...
...While I commend The Crimson’s balanced and on-point opposition on pragmatic grounds to Israel’s assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin (Editorial, “Assassination Doesn’t Work,” March 25), the moral critique that the editors put forth is unfounded and inaccurate. First, Israel had previously jailed Yassin, but he was freed in an unfortunate prisoner exchange with Jordan in 1997 after two Israeli Mossad agents were captured in Jordan following a botched assassination attempt. Second, arresting the spiritual leader of a militant group that virtually controls large areas...
...While reports about the 2000 presidential election in Florida wildly and irresponsibly exaggerated the number of qualified voters who were turned away at the polls...we must not tolerate even one wrongful denial of this precious right,” Harris wrote. “Thus, I commend the stated aims of Just Democracy...
Upstairs, Serie’s efforts for rapid change did not go unnoticed. Tanya A. Thompson ’06 looked up from a plate full of eggs and toast to commend DeMelo’s work...