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...some conservatives are pushing to strip the $20 billion the President has asked Congress to pony up for Iraq reconstruction, and to restructure it as loans. "Why should we give all this money to a country that's so rich in minerals?" Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a California conservative and staunch Bush ally, asked a closed meeting of House Republicans last week. At the same time, the 10 Democratic presidential hopefuls are landing blows on national security, an issue that was supposed to be unavailable to the opposition. And the addition of General Wesley Clark only gives the Democrats more credibility...
Councillor E. Denise Simmons, a staunch supporter of rent control, said she felt a victory had been...
...generated terror, it just provided an easier target. All these other people who normally would not have had the opportunity to strike out against American targets now have them close by. Iraq has become a magnet. But these are people with divergent opinions about the world. There are staunch secularists and nationalists together with vehement Muslim fundamentalists. It would not surprise me if these people ended up fighting one another, which we have seen already. This terrorism is not just against Americans, it's a statement. They are doing it in order to influence tens of thousands of other Muslims...
...Even in staunch ally Britain, rancor is building over the tribunals. "Does the Pentagon think the U.S. is the only country in the world ever to face terrorism?" asks Kelly of the Bar Council. Britain (to fight the Irish Republican Army), Italy (to fight the Mafia) and many other countries have modified their courts to combat terrorists without depriving suspects of so many rights. Especially galling has been the way the Bush Administration treated John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban. Even though he was captured fighting against coalition forces in Afghanistan, he was not deemed an "enemy combatant...
Majhoulf said he still found Gemayel’s staunch stance towards Syria more provocative than he expected...