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Five years ago President Bush invaded Iraq, one thing that representatives from the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club can agree on—anything else is up for debate. In a debate last night on the direction of the Iraq War, democratic representatives, Sahand Moarefy ’10 and Kyle A. Krahel ’08, advocated for the withdrawal of American troops, while Republican representatives, Tian Feng ’11 and Prateek Kumar ’11, called for continued military intervention. The first point of disagreement arose as the students debated...
...This was more than the typical divide between a Republican administration and liberal academics, professors said...
John McCain, the Arizona Senator and Republican Presidential hopeful, was doing his best to look statesmanlike during a tour of Jerusalem's Western Wall, but it wasn't easy. As McCain approached Judaism's holiest site, a Rabbi in a Moses-like beard, all draped in flowing white robes - a publicity-seeker posing as soothsayer - called out: "Ladies and Gentlemen, John McCain, the next President of the United States." Meanwhile, a cheeky kid had wormed his way into the media mob, held up his camera-cellphone to McCain and yelled: "Say cheese...
Israel is just one stop on the future Republican candidate's tour as part of the Senate Armed Services Committee. After Israel, where he met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert - and to the chagrin of the Palestinians, only spoke on the telephone to President Mahmoud Abbas - he flies on to the United Kingdom and France...
...stopover in Israel suits McCain politically. His pro-Israel stance, which he has long maintained, is bound to help his electoral prospects back home with American Jews and, more crucially, with Evangelical Christians who are a large part of the Republican party base, and who, until now, have regarded the twice-married McCain as too liberal and hard to pigeonhole. A recent Pew Poll says that 65% of Evangelicals believe that the state of Israel fulfills a biblical prophecy about Jesus' Second Coming...