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...give Bush his appropriation when the current Kabuki is over. The question is, What, if any, restraints can they put on funding for the troops? Senate Armed Services Committee chair Carl Levin says the next version of the bill should tie continued funding to progress on reforms the Iraqi government has promised and failed to meet: "We'll send him a bill with economic consequences for the Iraqis if they don't meet their own benchmarks in 60 to 90 days. The President says he favors those benchmarks. Let's see if he means what he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Around Bush | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...Levin also supports a proposal by Congressman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois: "Give him the funds until September, but ask that he bring back the [Baker-Hamilton] Iraq Study Group to report then on three issues-whether the surge is working, whether the Iraqi government is meeting the benchmarks that even the President agrees need to be met, and how the U.S. military is standing up to the strain on its resources." A number of Senators told me they thought the idea was "ingenious," but one of them said, "Sure, but do you think Bush will approve even that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Around Bush | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...Safety in Numbers? Your story on U.S. troops fighting insurgents in the Iraqi village of Qubah [April 9] appeared to be a routine report on the war - that is, until I saw the pictures of soldiers writing identifying numbers on an Iraqi woman's hand and an Iraqi man's neck. Those pictures not only symbolized an evil from times past but also underscored the direction this war has taken since the day when an Iraqi finger dipped in ink symbolized freedom. David Habecker, ESTES PARK, COLORADO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As the World Warms | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...foreign policy “schizophrenic” in a speech at the Law School yesterday. The head of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa’s leading opposition party, Leon criticized the country’s ties to Saddam Hussein’s government during the time the Iraqi dictator was in power, the country’s decision to veto a United Nations resolution condemning human-rights violations in Myanmar, and its policy of “silent diplomacy” in regard to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s “assault on civil liberties?...

Author: By Jun Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Leon Takes S. Africa to Task | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...executions have erupted in west Baghdad between the nationalist Battalion of the 1920 Revolution and al-Qaeda-backed fighters. Last week, an influential nationalist group, the Islamic Army in Iraq, asked Osama bin Laden to rein in al-Qaeda in Iraq's more extreme tactics, such as targeting Iraqi civilians and brutally enforcing Sharia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Qaeda Sends a Message | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

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