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...timetable. Furthermore, the Democrats’ spending bill is chock full of pork spending utterly unrelated to the situation in Iraq—$22 billion worth. Attaching such riders drastically weakens their claim to the moral high ground, and negates their claims to be acting on the behalf of the best interests of all Americans. Politics seems to have supplanted reason on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. We hope that both the president and Congress realize what hangs in the balance and commit to a drawdown without a strict timetable...
...defused tensions reflect a belief that Larijani speaks on behalf of Iran's highest authorities, and that the leadership has signaled its intention to end the conflict. Analysts in Tehran say now that the British government has also lightened its rhetoric, Iran has little to gain from holding onto the marines. "Iran wanted to show a tough posture, signal its power to maneuver, and to demean Britain," says Saeed Laylaz, an analyst and former official. "It has achieved all that...
...Despite the national attention and support generated by the campaign on behalf of the Malians, the authorities are unmoved. Conservative presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy continues to hammer his get-tough immigration message, even provoked protest among his own supporters when he promised to create a "ministry of immigration and national identity." In his current role as Interior Minister, meanwhile, Sarkozy insists the law must be upheld, although he offers that the Montfort Malians will be given preferential treatment if they return to Mali and apply for residence visas. No dice, say their supporters...
...they have never been lifted in many years." Twenty-five years later, McCain was a fiscal conservative and security hawk serving his third term in Barry Goldwater's old Senate seat when Nancy Reagan picked him to accept the American Conservative Union's Conservative of the Century Award on behalf of her husband, who was too incapacitated by Alzheimer's to do it himself...
...With another hearing set for Friday and the country's lawyers promising more protests, the biggest threat Musharraf faces may not now be not from extremists, but from the moderate political center on whose behalf he claims to be ruling...