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...December 2006, even as the Iraq Study Group was urging the President to begin a staged withdrawal from Iraq, another group of experts was putting together a very different plan. Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute and retired Army General Jack Keane began calling not for a pullout but for an escalation of troops?a one-time infusion of combat soldiers to push the insurgents out of Baghdad. The Kagan-Keane plan found an eager audience at the National Security Council and with Vice President Dick Cheney. Within days, the plan had been sold to Bush, who pulled...
Album extras Large album covers with imaginative graphics, pullout photos (some even have full-size posters tucked in the sleeve) and liner notes are a big draw for young fans. "Alternative rock used to have 16-page booklets and album sleeves, but with iTunes there isn't anything collectible to show I own a piece of this artist," says Dreese of Newbury Comics. In a nod to modern technology, albums known as picture discs come with an image of the band or artist printed on the vinyl. "People who are used to CDs see the artwork and the colored vinyl...
...House Democrats reject such arguments. Bush's announcement in September that he was beginning a drawdown was "a study in calculated public deception," Rep. David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who heads the House Appropriations Committee, said last week. The pullout of 30,000 troops by next summer will still leave about 140,000 troops in Iraq, the same size force that was there before the 30,000-strong "surge" began earlier this year. "He made clear in that speech that as far as he's concerned," Obey said, "we're going to be there for the next decade...
...mind, the only antidote to this kind of despair is organizing, is action.” “People need to take that to heart at Harvard,” he added. Despite the Bush administration’s stated unwillingness to consider a pullout from Iraq before the country is more stable, Nauert said that students need to stay active. “You have to undertake this with a sense of hope,” said Nauert, an inactive member of The Crimson’s editorial board. The group that organized the protest, which does...
...favor of the opposition Socialist Party. Voters thought that Iraq was not Spain’s war, and that their involvement in it was directly related to the jihadists’ attack on Madrid’s trains. Some predicted at the time of Spain’s pullout that the terrorists had won and that this would surely lead to terrorist attacks in other countries just before national elections. Some said that Spain had proved itself weak and the terrorists would be sure to target it even more in the future. Neither prediction has proved true. Countries from Australia...