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...Kerry's absence was telling. At his Boston campaign headquarters, phones rang endlessly and messages were lost or forgotten. While Rappaport splashed full-page ads onto the Boston Globe and payed for high-tech TV advertising, Kerry's campaign machine seemed to be stalled...
...unwillingness of both the Democrat-controlled Congress and the Republican Administration to face that harsh but inescapable truth had made the battle over the budget a prolonged and ugly struggle. It had a harsh edge to the very end. Late Friday night the House chamber rang with boos and shouts as members postured and debated before finally voting 228-200 to approve the plan. On Saturday afternoon, Senators converged on the Capitol for an extraordinary session and quickly okayed the package...
Next, the cold war was won. In the accompanying euphoria, the idea was born that having once again won the war to end all wars, the U.S. could finally lay down its burdens. Calls rang out for cutting the defense budget in half by the end of the decade. The New Yorker, with its unerring instinct for the politically trendy and the politically stupid, suggested (quoting Daniel Ellsberg) doing the 50% cut right now. In Congress the rush was on for wholesale American demobilization. A reporter, complaining at a Feb. 12 White House press conference about "out of sync" defense...
...ambassador saw us quite often, and there was a political officer who came almost every day. Also a nurse came every day. We had a telephone, but even when it rang we never picked it up. We could send letters outside through the diplomatic pouch. That was quite safe but very, very slow...
...Those who don't conform pay. A senior general once warned him, according to an Iraqi informant, that an attack he had ordered would lead to very high casualties. Saddam invited the general into the next room to discuss the matter. After the door closed behind them, a shot rang out. Saddam returned alone, stuffing his pistol into his holster...