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Will Abe tinker with Japan's constitution, and allow greater leeway for the country's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to act abroad? "I'd like to draft a new constitution with my own hands," he told an LDP convention on Sept. 1, when he declared his candidacy for party president...
The memo repeatedly insists that the interrogation methods are thoroughly reviewed for legal and Geneva Convention compliance, and that top officials, and currently the CIA director himself, "must approve - prior to use - each and every one of the lawful interrogation procedures to be used." It also says questioning sessions are...
Those words were spoken a year ago, when the President addressed the convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. At that time, 1,871 U.S. military personnel had been killed in Iraq since March 2003.
At the Salt Palace convention hall in Salt Lake City, President Bush faces an audience of military veterans, standing before a backdrop depicting iconic scenes from wars past: "Spreading freedom is the work of generations, and no one knows it better than you," he tells them. "Freedom has contended with...
(2 of 2) In recent weeks, the conflict has threatened to spill over into northern Iraq, one of the last tranquil areas in that country - a fact that may have caught the U.S. military's attention more than the bombings on the Mediterranean coast. Authorities inside Iraq have reported that...