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...Election-season posturing aside, however, there are signs of a new pragmatism on both sides over how the U.S. exit from Iraq might be managed. While Bush scores points off Kerry's vow to bring the troops back home within his first term - sends the wrong message to the enemy, says the President - conservative columnist Robert Novak claims administration sources have told him the Bush administration plans to withdraw from Iraq next year. (This being the same Robert Novak through whom senior administration officials allegedly named Valerie Plame, the wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson of Niger uranium probe fame...
...Novak suggests, the broad objective has become an exit strategy and Washington is intimately aware of the danger of civil war, then presumably it knows better than to rely for stability only on the unknown quantity that is the Iraqi security forces. That's why reports of discreet talks between the U.S. and Syria in pursuit of cooperation on securing Iraq's borders may portend a new U.S. effort to stabilize Iraq on the basis of political and security agreements with its neighbors. The chances of avoiding a civil war, and achieving some form of stability, will be greatly enhanced...
Lampoon staff members danced to James Brown music in the front of the building, wearing black tie attire and smoking cigarettes while prolonging the star’s exit from the castle...
...home opposing involvement because the U.S. did not understand the nature of the war and wasn't willing to do what was necessary to win it. Kerry and I share a similar view: opposition to a war that besmirched American honor and in which we were trapped because no exit had ever been planned. What is more important than the medals Kerry received is that he was in Vietnam voluntarily serving his country. President Bush was not. Now we need a Commander in Chief who personally knows what it is like to fight a war. Mary S. Jespersen Bogense, Denmark...
...jury selection began, both the accuser and the defendant were looking for an exit--she to avoid what surely would have been a grueling trial, he to avoid the risk of conviction. In midafternoon on Sept. 1, one of Bryant's local attorneys, Terrence P. O'Connor, whose office is in Edwards, visited the nearby Avon office of John Clune, who represents the accuser. It is believed that O'Connor carried a carefully crafted apology that he said Bryant would be willing to release once the charge had been dropped. The two had been discussing it for weeks, says former...