Word: fiascoes
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...intelligence on Iran better than it was on Iraq? It's good. It's solid. And I think ... what we've tried to improve since the WMD fiasco is building the safeguards. You have to build in different ways of double checking. You've got a team out there that takes the alternative hypothesis and tries to prove it with the same set of facts...
...administration, "He was not fired." The talking point, provided to TIME by a recipient, went on: "Does the President think that Andy Card is to blame for the difficulties he has faced this year, especially the poor response during Katrina, Harriet Miers, and the recent Dubai parts fiasco?" In short, the answer was no. "Andy Card has been a terrific Chief of Staff, and he has led the White House team through many very difficult challenges for more than five and a half years," the document says. "He did it with great skill and decency, and he will leave with...
...last thing the President needed. On the contrary, the circus seems to have provided the media with a less damaging diversion from the really bad news of the week. The shooting generated an 11-page story package, while the scathing, 520-page congressional report on the Hurricane Katrina fiasco was underreported. Seems like Whittington literally took a hit for his buddies. Michele Tombari Las Vegas It's amazing that the victim was the one who apologized, while the shooter said, "It's one of the worst days of my life." Couldn't Cheney have apologized for shooting his friend without...
...last thing the President needed. On the contrary, the circus seems to have provided the media with a less damaging diversion from the really bad news of the week. The shooting generated an 11-page story package, while the scathing, 520-page congressional report on the Hurricane Katrina fiasco was underreported. Seems like Whittington literally took a hit for his buddies. Michele Tombari Las Vegas...
...Britain and France will seek support from the remaining ten members of the Council - Argentina, Tanzania, Congo, Ghana, Denmark, Greece, Japan, Peru, Qatar and Slovakia. But absent any smoking-gun evidence of Iran maintaining a weapons program, and considering Washington's credibility problem after the Iraq WMD fiasco, the U.S. and its allies may struggle to maintain the momentum of efforts to turn up the heat on Tehran. Indeed, their best hope may lie in Iran rattling its own sabers so much that it actually alienates the two powers it needs most at the moment, Russia and China...