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...importance. Allawi insisted that the election would go ahead - although, he warned, it would be imperfect - despite the suggestion by "some" that security conditions for holding a credible election simply don't exist right now. "Some" may have been a reference to the likes of Senator John Kerry and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, but ironically the suggestion that elections might have to be postponed for security reasons had first been mooted by Allawi himself upon taking office at the end of June. Still, now the prime minister remains "on message," reiterating that the election will be held in January...
...that Allawi will survive an election. It's not even certain that the Iraqi election will go ahead on schedule, given the current level of violence. In the three weeks of September alone, more than 500 Iraqis and some 59 U.S. troops have been killed, and the UN has made clear that it could not certify that a "credible" election could be held under these circumstances. That leaves the U.S. to either launch an offensive to retake Sunni towns form the insurgents in the brief window of opportunity between the U.S. election and the scheduled Iraqi one - and risk...
This work has taken Dell to places far from Harvard’s campus. Last semester, Dell studied abroad in Chile, researching the benefits of immigration to the United States for the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean...
...That blissful isolation has to break down eventually, though. The problem is, American politics are un-American. At least, they no longer fit the a la carte ethos of iPod America. You and I can't each have our own President. We can't have our own Supreme Court or our own assault-weapons law. If you don't like the USA Patriot Act, you can't delete it from your digital playlist...
...What he said was meant to scare voters, period. It was way over the top and, I think, un-American." JOHN EDWARDS, Democratic vice-presidential candidate, reacting to Cheney's comment...