Word: progressives
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...been over five years since Bush's "mission accomplished" in Iraq. When are the military and the Administration going to stop lying about all the "progress" made by the Iraqi forces? The situation grows worse by the day, and the Iraqi forces desert, join the opposition, or simply refuse to fight. The Iraqi government will never take responsibility for its own country until it is forced to. Our troops should leave now. This would force the Iraqi government and armed services to take that responsibility or die trying. I do not agree with John McCain that we should remain...
...Smith spent the bulk of the afternoon discussing his Annual Report, which summarized progress made in the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, developments in the Faculty and with the administrative staff, and the state of FAS finances between September 2006 and February...
...rights could provoke the populace to remove the ambiguity: November’s state elections could see a referendum on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Unfortunately, by opening a new battlefront on the constitution, the court has provoked such drastic kinds of move that could set back progress on the issue by decades...
...that Russia and China are ensuring remain half-hearted. And with the U.S. pinned down in Iraq and Afghanistan there's little Washington can do to scare Iran into changing its ambitions. On Sunday, on the flight back to Washington, when Condoleezza Rice was asked if there was any progress on pressuring Iran, she said, "The important thing is that the President significantly advanced the discussion about really using the strengths that this community of states [in the region] has." Translation...
...better on the rest of his five-day trip to the region. Oil prices aren't the only issue America faces in the Middle East; they may not even be the most important. The Iranian regime is busy gaining the ability to build a nuclear weapon. Bush made no progress convincing allies to pressure it to change course. Iran is also arming and training anti-Israeli forces in Gaza and Lebanon. Instead of backing down, those groups stepped up attacks on America's allies before and during Bush's trip. Even the nominal purpose of the trip, bolstering Palestinian-Israeli...