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...leisurely visits to religious sites, including a gold-leafed Buddhist temple in Japan and an ancient Korean pagoda. White House officials tell TIME that the National Security Council included those stops so Bush could show an appreciation for Asian culture and give the U.S. a calling card besides troop requests and military bases...
Last Tuesday Congress took the first, difficult step towards evaluating the need for U.S. troops in Iraq. In a 79-19 bipartisan vote, the Senate passed a broad defense policy bill which included language saying that 2006 “should be a period of significant transition to full Iraqi sovereignty.” The bill also calls for the Bush administration to furnish Congress with progress reports on the need for U.S. troops every three months. Though likely to be reshaped for passage in the House, the Senate version of the bill is the first sign that Congress...
...policy debates can splinter the unity of the Harvard community. Similar to the growing partisanship in Washington, it is apparent from the current ideological warfare among students that Harvard seems to be following suit. But in celebration of Veteran’s Day, which coincides with the recent U.S. troop death toll in Iraq reaching 2,000, it is important that the Harvard community honor the dedication and sacrifice of our countrymen and women in uniform. In hopes of encouraging campus wide appreciation and commemoration of the sacrifices of the U.S. troops, the Harvard College Democrats and Harvard Republican Club...
That kind of paranoia is one reason the U.S. troop presence, while an irritant to many Iraqis, may be the only thing preventing a slide into a sectarian bloodbath. The Bush Administration hopes that increased Sunni political participation will help defuse the insurgency. But elections have proved an insufficient antidote to the violence, and the U.S. and Iraq's new leaders have given sullen Sunnis few tangible reasons to support them. Because of security concerns, the State Department has only one envoy and one staff member from the U.S. Agency for International Development for the whole of Anbar province...
...swearing-in ceremony in 1985 as Environment Minister in the state of Hesse. His appointment as German Foreign Minister, the highest post held by a Green politician, lent Germany a distinctive presence on the international stage, one enhanced when the former anti-militarist turned humanitarian interventionist backed German troop participation in Kosovo and later questioned Donald Rumsfeld on the eve of the Iraq war. ("Excuse me, I am not convinced," he told the U.S. Defense Secretary about claims that weapons of mass destruction were hidden in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.) Schröder was not an active '68er...