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Last weekend, a suicide bomber exploded a car near a Baghdad hotel, killing at least six and injuring over 30. Every day it becomes clearer that the Pentagon’s postwar reconstruction in Iraq is a veritable mess. Meanwhile, the economy continues to stumble, unemployment remains at exceptional highs and the budget deficit keeps ballooning. In the midst of such uncertain and difficult times, at least the White House has its enemies in sight, its allies in line and its priorities in order: by presidential proclamation, Bush has declared Oct. 12 through 18 Marriage Protection Week...
...crawling back to UNESCO, her visit to Paris was aimed at mending fences with the international community and, more particularly, the French. It was a particularly deft move by the Bush administration, sending the president’s better half to clean up the worse half’s mess. Laura does the dirty work, kissing up to President Chirac, the UN, and the French people, while Bush reaps the rewards unscathed...
...here because it's the only job I know how to do," says Mikhail, a noncommissioned officer with the militarized forces of Russia's Interior Ministry, as he feeds a cat in the tightly guarded garrison that protects the Chechen government headquarters in Grozny. "This war is a f______ mess." Chechnya may not be Putin's undoing in the coming elections, but its endless nightmare is likely to haunt him in his second term...
...minute sooner than it should. This should be the relevant answer to this question. Until Iraq has a stable government with an electoral process and established constitution we would be foolish to get out and leave Iraq in a mess. Lee Duplechian Colorado Springs, Colo...
...began to bubble when the political, economic and counterterrorism group meetings were either canceled or held without civilian Pentagon participation. An NSC source offered the plausible argument that these were just logistical problems with a new process. But the instantaneous rumors were typical of the Administration's foreign-policy mess...