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Palin’s career in Juneau mirrors McCain’s tenure in Washington. McCain pilloried former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s military strategy in Iraq , scrutinized lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s dealings with Indian tribes , and railed against the pork barrel projects approved by a Republican Congress . While Palin scraped the pork barrel for federal dollars herself, she also line-item-vetoed $268 million worth of hometown projects from the state budget, or about 10 percent of state spending. These political victories have enabled the McCain campaign to sell her as a bull moose...
...question of appeasement has long been barbed and dangerous in European history. Taking its measure became a major source of tension between old Europe and new Europe, to use the notorious nomenclature coined by former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during Europe's last big foreign-policy dilemma, over Iraq. This time, though, Europe was able to agree in a matter of four hours on a unified response to a direct and threatening neighbor...
...part to concessions from the hard-liners. Before the Brussels summit, Polish President Kaczynski had complained that "the real decisions in this organization are being made between Berlin and Paris," and called the idea of a common policy toward Russia "laughable." But the more moderate Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk left for Brussels with an admonition for E.U. unity on his lips. "We want to lead the way," he said, "but we don't want to be radical." In the end, Kaczynski and the Baltic leaders came around to the widely held position that economic sanctions against Moscow would...
...DONALD WUERL, Archbishop of Washington, rebuking Pelosi for misstating church doctrine...
...weapons of mass destruction. I can only imagine what Saddam Hussein would be doing with the wealth he would acquire with oil at $110 and $120 a barrel. I was one of the first to point out the failure of strategy in Iraq under [former Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld. I was criticized for being disloyal to the Republicans and the President. I was the first to say I would lose a campaign rather than lose a war. I supported the surge. No observer over the last two years would say the surge hasn't succeeded. I believe...