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...want to detour into voicing the kind of open criticism of Brown's Iraq policy he has expressed in recent interviews. ( "Obviously I would like to have seen [British troops] stay longer and larger. At the time, I didn't think it was a good idea, but I understood the domestic British political situation," McCain told the Daily Telegraph in February about British plans for a drawdown in Basra.) Where he wanted to move on to was the much more comfortable area of shared aspirations. "We expressed our great appreciation for the long-standing and unique relationship that exists between...
...realize our planet has limited resources and Chinese people want cars and all this is making our planet warmer for reasons I'm pretty sure I understood when I left the Al Gore movie and have no idea about now and am not nearly interested in enough to watch that Al Gore movie again. But I'm convinced that the environmental movement is less about making sure we humans can continue to do important things like fly and drive and spritz ourselves with cans of Evian and more of an excuse to advocate an anticonsumerist, antiglobalization, anti-good-smelling-kitchen...
...Congress debated the decision to go to war, but not the decision on how to pay for it. Wars usually require understood sacrifice back home. But this administration and Congress have colluded to ignore and conceal this unpleasant truth, financing the entire war through reckless borrowing. Indeed, this is the first war in U.S. history to coincide with tax cuts and increased spending. It is also the first American war since the Revolution to be financed by international loans...
...been acting in “good faith” on their statutes. Many might find McCain’s decision confusing, but as Randy Scheunemann, McCain’s top national security adviser, stated, “It’s easily explainable and easily understood by the American people.” Yet what the American people will take away from this experience is that McCain’s vote was cast entirely in light of his bid for the Republican nomination. He is uncharacteristically siding with the president on the issue of torture. This dramatic change...
Each side understood that the months leading up to the Games would be "extremely sensitive," as one diplomat put it. The government knew "from day one," another diplomat told TIME, that "a successful bid for the games would bring an unprecedented - and in some cases very harsh - spotlight" on China and how it is governed. On the other side, everyone from human rights activists to independence seeking dissidents in Tibet and Xinjiang - "splittists" in the Chinese vernacular - knew they would have an opportunity to push their agendas while the world was watching. "Thought the specific trigger for this in Tibet...