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...First, it would help the message. After Bush identified Iran as a part of the Axis of Evil during last year’s State of the Union Address, it is not surprising that many Iranians dislike the United States. The president’s unnecessarily overblown talk of American crusades against Islamic terrorism didn’t help, either. A Security Council declaration condemning Iran’s Guardian Council might get the message across to a few Iranians that would otherwise have blown off a purely American objection. Second, going to the U.N. would also help the United...
...fireplug from Vermont? No, I'm not cynically trying to engineer a Bush landslide. And, no, it's not because John Kerry seems such a tired and faded figure (although that's part of it). I just think that the Democrats' sudden panic about Dean's electability is overblown and that the urge to find someone more superficially "presidential" is a trap. It won't help the Democrats in November (I don't know any Democrats who are actually excited about Kerry), and it will deny all of us a real debate about the future direction of the country...
...been so overblown. Janet has apologized and explained that it went too far. The powers that be act like she committed murder! CBS has top-rated CSI, a show which shows graphic corpses, and the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Isn't it time this right-winged puritanical tide in this country stop? Censorship and restrictions only make a society more subversive and people act out. Let's move on to something worth talking about. Gregory Los Angeles, Calif...
...that the supply of vaccine couldn't meet demand and might not be effective against this year's strain of virus. At the same time, health officials urged that all healthy babies between the ages of 6 months and 23 months be vaccinated. Thankfully, the worries proved to be overblown, but as experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pointed out, when it comes to the flu, it's far better to be safe than sorry...
...establish less permanent facilities that can be geared up or down depending on requirements - which may not prove the economic windfall that politicians there are anticipating. "Things will be happening in 2004," Feith told Time. "Expectations that people are going to see extremely large decisions, extremely quickly, are probably overblown. There aren't going to be any new Ramsteins in Eastern Europe," a reference to the huge airbase in Germany. Large decisions may not be imminent, but they are coming. Rumsfeld, Feith and others continue to argue for faster, leaner, more agile American forces whose purpose, as Feith told reporters...