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...prep and repetitive one-liners ("Why the hell not?" is his campaign slogan) are beginning to seem stale and tired. He has come under attack for his flip remarks, like one calling Katrina evacuees in Houston "crackheads and thugs", but he has refused Bell's calls to withdraw. "This is not an election. This is a moment in history," he tells supporters. "This is what Davey Crockett died for at the Alamo...
...hour plan. More conservative Democrats, many of them newly elected from Republican-leaning districts, would hold the balance of power. If the Democrats have a more comfortable majority, however, the party's edgier, angrier side could emerge, especially on the question of whether or how quickly to withdraw from Iraq. One of the early tests of which direction Pelosi would take could be an expected fight for majority leader between the current whip Steny Hoyer and Pennsylvania's John Murtha, who has become a hero to the antiwar left...
...Hardly surprisingly, Lieberman's arrival has forced Olmert's senior coalition partner, the equally embattled Defense Minister and Labor Party leader Amir Peretz, to reexamine its own position. A split has already developed between members who want to withdraw their 19 Knesset seats from Olmert's government - Arab members are particularly appalled by their new coalition mates - and those who think it best to stay. Labor will decide its course on Sunday, but the Lieberman dilemma has simply highlighted the sense that the party no longer knows where it stands. Israel's campaigns in Lebanon and Gaza, and the increasingly...
...were to do what some of the Democrats want, withdraw from Iraq, you could imagine what happens to a man like Karzai or Musharraf, who in effect puts his life on the line every day when he goes to work; the hundreds of thousands of men in Afghanistan and Iraq who signed on for the security forces to fight on our side, in effect, against the evil ones; the overall attitude of the millions of people in Afghanistan and Iraq who have gone to the polls and risked their own lives in order to vote and participate in newly created...
...remember how we got to sectarian violence: al-Qaeda. That was their strategy: to kill Shia until they could generate some kind of a response. And the lesson we should have learned with 9/11 is that there may have been a time in our history when we could withdraw behind our borders and be safe and secure here at home. That day passed on 9/11. When we saw the damage that a handful of men could do--trained in the remote training camps of Afghanistan, aided and abetted by a planning cell in Hamburg, Germany, and ending up here killing...