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When he talks about the war in iraq, Jim Webb-the Democrat running for the U.S. Senate from Virginia-likes to paraphrase Dwight Eisenhower on the war in Korea. "Anyone who tells you we can set a timetable for withdrawal doesn't understand war," he says. "And anyone who says that nothing can be done to speed a secure peace doesn't understand America." Yeah, but America is a less disciplined place than it was 50 years ago, and speeding a secure peace requires some focus from a country-and an Administration-that is largely awol on Iraq. Webb...
...STOP INCLUDING HIM IN THIS COLUMN AS SOON AS HE STOPS GIVING US MATERIAL Apparently, George Allen is Jewish. But not that Jewish. Soon after his mother says it is O.K. to emerge from the goy closet, the Republican Senator from Virginia tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "I still had a ham sandwich for lunch...
...Number of years it took David Banh, 18, to earn enough credits to graduate--with a double major in physics and math--from the University of Virginia...
...Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...three Republican senators who opposed a White House version of the bill - Senators John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John Warner of Virginia - said the just-announced compromise with the White House met their fundamental requirements by first leaving the provisions of the Geneva Conventions untouched and second, by guaranteeing prisoners facing military tribunals basic rights and fairness. The Bush Administration had favored a watering down of some of those rights...