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...terrorist threat diminished, is it worth spending $9 billion a month to referee the eternal Mesopotamian ethnic differences while the U.S. lapses into a second-world debtor economy, unable to invest in health care, education and high-tech infrastructure? Or is it time to scale back, in a prudent fashion, the U.S. commitment there? No doubt, this will annoy McCain enormously, but?like almost everything else in this campaign?the war in Iraq is about to become an economic issue...
...with their peers and get a shot at the big time. If it was “just a game,” players wouldn’t devote their lives and give up their bodies to their teams, only to be casually discarded when it becomes financially prudent for these so-called “families?...
...there is nothing more to do in this race. I can't win it, certainly there's no way I could've won the Iowa caucus, the New Hampshire primaries. Essentially the issue got taken away from me but it is okay. So at that point it just seems prudent to end it and be done...
...certainly not fair for a family with an income of $120,000 but with a large nest egg to receive financial aid. At the same time, we hope that Harvard will carefully think about what level of assets it defines as typical so as not to punish prudent saving for college. This concern, however, is fairly minor. Given the amount of planning that appears to have gone into this proposal and the tremendous benefit it will have for students across the financial spectrum, we are confident that this latest expansion of financial aid will be a roaring success...
...over a question about how he would react to a terrorist attack, sounding more like a candidate to head the volunteer fire department as he focused on disaster preparedness. Clinton, seeing her opening, spoke as a Commander in Chief: "I think a President must move as swiftly as is prudent to retaliate...