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...destroy Hizballah in this summer's war with the Jewish state, in part by trying to block supplies from reaching the battlefront of southern Lebanon. Siniora and his allies have responded by saying that Hizballah is acting on orders from Iran and Syria - from whom the group's military wing receives weapons and other aid - to destabilize Lebanon and mount a coup d'etat...
That comment reflected the West Wing's exceeding bitterness about the report. Some of the pushback was substantive. The suggestions on how to engage directly with Iran and Syria--the parts resisted most unambiguously by the President--were surprisingly specific and prescriptive, not the platitudes the Administration had expected. Bush aides chafed at the patronizing directive "The President and the leadership of his national-security team should remain in close and frequent contact with the Iraqi leadership." Even some Democrats thought that Bush might have a point. "If you want to help the President," said Paul Goldman, a Democratic strategist...
...series for John Wells' (executive producer of E.R., The West Wing) company. It's about two girls trying to marry rich men and the boy who lives across the hall from them. He's gay and trying to do the same thing...
...Party Too, which works to elect moderate Republicans. She spent the past few days at Harvard as a Visiting IOP Fellow, during which time she met with campus groups and hosted a forum at the IOP. Despite Whitman’s divide from the far-right wing of the Republican party, she noted that she refuses to leave it, instead saying “I want to fight for it, I want to fight for the party in which I’ve been, in which I grew up, that was a centrist party, that was an umbrella party that...
...locally), bears little resemblance to Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” Smiley specializes in conducting wide-ranging interviews with interesting people—both famous and not so famous—while Colbert specializes in skewering politicians and the right-wing pundits upon whom his character is based. It’s no wonder that Colbert drew a larger college crowd on Friday...