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...said, "I want to put money in your pocket ... I have a proposal for a tax cut for all people earning less than the $200,000." This is infuriating, a textbook example of Kerry trying to have it all ways. It is very similar to his position on American troop strength in Iraq. Bush, he says, was wrong not to listen to General Eric Shinseki, who said several hundred thousand troops were necessary to do the job. But Kerry doesn't favor sending more troops. Indeed, he drops awkward hints about bringing troops home. He later compounded his tax felony...
...ambassador in Tripoli. "But the Libyans think this is our problem." Friendship still has its limits. - By Vivienne Walt Close Call POLAND Prime Minister Marek Belka's government narrowly survived a parliamentary vote of confidence just hours after Belka announced the country would begin reducing its 2,500-strong troop contingent in Iraq early next year. "We will not remain in Iraq an hour longer than is sensible [or] necessary to achieve our mission's goal," he said. More than 70% of Poles oppose their country's participation in the U.S.-led coalition. A Surprise Victory ZIMBABWE Opposition leader Morgan...
...this stage, whatever can go wrong will go wrong with our troop,” Cornell coach Bryan Scales said...
...simply focus on the region and get away with ignoring all the other challenges the war on terror brings us is mistaken." Ending Taliban rule in Afghanistan reduced the flow of al-Qaeda-trained terrorists into Southeast Asia, Downer points out. On the other hand, Labor's Christmas troop pullout from Iraq "would give an enormous propaganda victory to the terrorists, not just in Iraq but elsewhere, including Southeast Asia." Abu Baker Bashir, the alleged leader of J.I., said last month that "it would be better if Australian troops pulled out" of Iraq...
...Americans, the most critical front in the war for Islam's future lies in the country that is home to 135,000 U.S. troops: Iraq. Among the many unintended consequences of this war is that some of the most harrowing terrorist acts being carried out in the name of Islam are taking place in a country the U.S. had hoped to transform into a model of secular democracy in the Middle East. The chances that Iraq will resemble that ideal soon are all but gone. The danger now is that control could slip into the hands of jihadists--as parts...