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...falsified any memos. Besieged by calls last week from irate viewers, the CBS affiliate in Abilene, Texas, 21 miles from Burkett's home, broadcast a special message disavowing the network's original story. As for Bush's military records, they still contain glaring holes. But that has been largely forgotten in the recent excitement. Says a senior Administration official of the focus on CBS's predicament: "This is the gift that keeps on giving." --Reported by Anna Macias Aguayo/Abilene, John F. Dickerson/Washington, Sean Gregory and Nathan Thornburgh/New York, Hilary Hylton/Austin and Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas
When it comes to presidential politics, there is no SUV. We all surrender our headsets and consoles and pile into a 1964 Chrysler with bench seats and no drink holders and one radio. And we have forgotten how we ever managed to ride in this damn thing without murdering one another. "I'm driving this car," says Papa George, "and I say we're listening to Toby Keith." Mama Laura taps her toes while Uncle John hums a Peter, Paul and Mary tune in protest. In back, half the kids sing along with the radio raucously, and the other half...
...hadn't been for the Iraq war? By whipping voters into a prolonged state of fear and anxiety, the President has been able to so effectively mask his abysmal performance on big problems like the economy and health reform that apparently even such savvy political essayists as Krauthammer have forgotten that they exist. Anisha Mason San Francisco What about the administration's distortions on Iraq's involvement in 9/11 and its supposed weapons of mass destruction? More than a thousand American troops and many thousands of Iraqis have paid for those distortions with their lives. Claude Gordon London Bush...
...every place where a father or mother struggles and sweats all day to afford the price of a meal for a hungry family at night. They are in every place where boys keep hearing the phrase “America is the future.” They are the forgotten passengers of the globalization journey stuck in a third class seat, begging for a taste of success. And to these people, terrorists are selling a fake victory—a moment of balance when the strong feels vulnerable and violated by the weak...
While hurricane experts were hoping that Florida would be spared a third strike, they also hoped that the lesson of the 2004 hurricane season would not be forgotten: Charley, Frances and Ivan are not flukes but part of an all too familiar cycle. And once the millions of people who have flocked to coastal zones acknowledge that fact, they might finally be willing to adopt building codes and zoning restrictions that could reduce future losses of property and lives...