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...provide adequate money for counter-terror intelligence. ?The Democrats are trying to cover their butts for the Clinton years," says one Administration hand, " and the Republicans are trying to cover their butts for the year after that, and this is all going to be muddled into an ugly partisan mess...
...close rapidly if they [the Iraqis] do not see progress." Which brings us back to the second part of the question the President didn't answer last week: Why is no one helping us in Iraq? A simple answer: Why on earth should they? The situation is a mess, in large part because of American arrogance. We insisted on doing the reconstruction on our own (only 13,000 of the 148,000 troops on the ground are British). It seems plain now that going it alone isn't working. Even Donald Rumsfeld came very close to admitting that on Meet...
...five years to a man with the personality of lint. If a Republican does beat him, the winner will face a $38 billion deficit, a legislature controlled by ticked-off Democrats and a reelection fight only two years away. The only positive that could come out of this mess is that it might anger California voters enough to back a new petition - one ending the insanity of the recall...
Though U.S. officials blame Saddam for creating the mess they have inherited, Washington is in fact digging itself out of a self-imposed hole. Military officers and officials involved in planning the governing of postwar Iraq say the Administration never devised a strategy for running the country and ignored warnings about some of the maladies--such as widespread looting and collapse of the country's infrastructure--that continue to plague the nation-building effort. "The war plan was there in spades," says Ron Adams, who served as deputy to Jay Garner, the retired lieutenant general who briefly preceded Bremer...
...Informed opinion in both Hong Kong and Beijing holds that China's leaders are frustrated, even angry, with Tung for not addressing the territory's growing disillusionment over his leadership and for now sucking Beijing into the mess. Says political scientist Joseph Cheng of City University of Hong Kong: "The Tung Administration has become a political liability for China." One sign of Beijing's displeasure: pro-China newspapers in the territory have now been allowed to report and comment?albeit in subdued tones?on the shortcomings of Tung and his government. In the past week, too, China's leadership...