Word: staunchly
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...running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and pray, as many times as possible, for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats." JOHN HOWARD, Australian Prime Minister and George W. Bush ally, on presidential hopeful Barack Obama--a staunch Iraq-war critic who said he would remove troops by March...
...second challenge will come Saturday night, as Harris will try to staunch senior forward and returning All-Ivy League standout Mark Zoller’s attempts to carry his Quakers (10-8, 4-1 Ivy) to another NCAA tournament...
...uncritical alliance, nor were Foreign Minister Taro Aso's comments on Feb. 3 that the American plan for Iraq had been "very immature." Both Kyuma and Aso were echoing what a majority of Japanese feel, but their statements seemed almost calculated to cause embarrassment to their boss - a staunch supporter of the U.S. - while currying favor with the public. Shiozaki, who should be keeping Abe's team in line, was left to protest to reporters last week that "we are not a cabinet with its members saying whatever they like." Perhaps he was preparing a set of muzzles...
DIED. Robert Drinan, 86, liberal Democrat from Massachusetts and the first Roman Catholic priest to become a voting member of Congress; in Washington. A staunch opponent of the Vietnam War, he was elected in 1970 (with the help of campaign aide John Kerry and the slogan "Father Knows Best"). He charmed, and sometimes cowed, colleagues with his clerical clothing--he said he had no other suits--and was the first to call for Richard Nixon's impeachment, over the U.S.'s secret bombing of Cambodia. He left politics in 1980, after Pope John Paul II ordered him to resign, citing...
...Warner, a World War II veteran, is hard to read perhaps because he is genuinely torn. A staunch defender of the military who has long deferred to the Commander in Chief, his deference is waning on the Iraq war. "The reason I'm into this situation so deeply is that I feel that the American citizens have given so generously with their sons and daughters," he says. "Have we not fulfilled our commitment to the Iraqi people?" Warner's spacious office is filled with props: an arm from Saddam Hussein's chair, World War I medals awarded to Warner...