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...first light, a troop helicopter landed on the hilltop and loaded the bodies on board; they were taken to the shipping container that serves as a morgue at the hospital in Dili. The Australians also took Nikson to the hospital, where he is in a stable condition and under arrest. Deolindo Barras' sister spent two days trying to locate her brother's body before it was brought to the morgue in a black body bag by Australian soldiers. Barros-who left a pregnant wife and three children-was very close to Reinado, she told TIME, "like a bodyguard...
With Washington divided over Bush’s proposed troop “surge” in Iraq, the concept of sacrifice has resurfaced in American politics, but this time in a mutilated and parasitic form. Defying his predecessors, who demanded restraint and sacrifice from the country as a whole, the president has again chosen to place the entirety of the burden on a small segment of the public—the 130,000 American families, which will now become 20,000 more, with sons and daughters deployed in Iraq. Bush has ironically come to the same conclusion...
Admirable bipartisanship. Democrats have the country with them against the war in Iraq but aren't acting to end it. Why? This war is the major blunder in American foreign policy. We ought to free ourselves from our troop involvement. But if you look back on Vietnam, it wasn't until 1973 that we passed the resolution that actually halted troops and money. There's no question that this is a slow-moving institution, and it's no new statement to say that we are behind what's happening out in the countryside...
...stands to reason that Lieberman, a lifelong Democrat, would be interested in extracting concessions from Republicans as well. He describes himself as a hawk abroad, and lately his rhetoric has come to resemble the G.O.P.'s, notably when he said Democratic opposition to Bush's troop surge would "discourage our troops, hearten our enemies." But he's progressive at home; he has a long record of fighting for environmental concerns, prides himself on his early support for the civil rights movement and has earned strong ratings from labor. He's even working on a military mental-health bill with California...
...respond to people who say passing a nonbinding resolution like the one you introduced in the Senate opposing the troop surge doesn't matter...