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...return for cash, guns and bombmaking lessons. In 2004 Abu Sayyaf was blamed for one of the world's deadliest maritime terror attacks, when a Manila ferry exploded, killing 116 people. Last November the group was blamed for a Manila bombing that killed three people, including a Muslim congressman, and wounded a dozen more...
...exactly these reasons that some of the members of Congress who know the military best have been most wary of visiting Iraq. When Patrick Murphy, who served with the 82nd Airborne in Baghdad, returned to the country as a Congressman in 2007, he said he found the trip "somewhat scripted" and insisted on breaking off and seeing his former comrades so they "would give the straight story." Senator Jim Webb, a former Marine and Secretary of the Navy, called congressional Iraq visits a "dog and pony" show...
...Ronald Reagan when talking about tax cuts and the rest of his economic platform. No matter what Hillary Clinton says about healing the Democratic Party, it seems clear the mistrust between Obama and her (and their respective supporters) runs deep. Finding common allies to smooth things over, like Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel, is essential. On the Republican side, Scott McClellan's book has infuriated many Republicans but has flustered them as well: If you can't trust a longtime Bushie like Scott not to be a turncoat, whom can you trust? The game of leisure chicken begins: Which candidate will...
...about the book. Beyond the bemusement of McClellan’s former comrades, former Sen. Bob Dole—getting sentimental in his old age—called its author a “miserable creature” who “cashed in,” while Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler has asked that McClellan officially bite the hand that fed him before the House Judiciary Committee. For his part, the former fall guy has only cited a new “loyalty to the truth,” one that supplants his former allegiance to the president...
...Over the past quarter century, the flash point for this tension has been an obscure federal law known as the Solomon Amendment, the brainchild of a conservative New York congressman who was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. And it’s no surprise why: the central purpose of the Solomon Amendment was to increase the role of the military on college campuses...