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...America has also accepted Iraqi refugees, although significantly fewer than you might expect. Granted, travel time to America is longer than the time it takes to cross the border into neighboring countries, I’m still not sure we have any excuse for our measly effort to help alleviate the refugee crisis. The United States has accepted only 496 of the 4.2 million displaced persons in this war. And even though President Bush has promised to issue a few more visas and allow a few thousand more Iraqis in, it is clear to me that he doesn?...
...Rudy's Electoral College argument has its share of weak spots. If he would put some blue states into play, his name on the G.O.P. ticket also would invite some red ones onto the dance floor, too. He would have to work harder to hold border states like Tennessee (11) and Missouri (11) than Bush did against Kerry and could hardly take Arkansas (11) for granted, assuming Clinton parks her husband there for a few days in October (that prospect alone is reason for keeping an eye on Mike Huckabee in the G.O.P. veepstakes). Meanwhile, Iowa (7) and New Mexico...
Dozens of Turkish military trucks rumbled towards the Iraqi border as Turks across the country took to the streets to demand retaliation for an attack by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) separatists based in north Iraq that killed 12 Turkish soldiers. It was the third large-scale attack in recent weeks. Eight Turkish soldiers are still missing after the incident. Sunday's attack may well prove the last straw for Turkey's hawkish military - NATO's second largest army after the U.S. - which has been readying to cross the border into north Iraq in pursuit of the PKK for several months...
Following Sunday's attack, the military said it had launched an offensive along the border, where Turkey already has some 100,000 troops, backed by tanks, F-16 fighter jets and attack helicopters. On Monday, a convoy of 50 military vehicles, loaded with soldiers and weapons, was seen heading toward the border, according to the Associated Press. In Istanbul, the capital Ankara and the port city of Mersin, thousands of protestors, wearing black ribbons and waving the Turkish flag, denounced the PKK attack. Across the country, public events and celebrations (including a concert by the American pop star Beyonce...
Bhutto supporters arrived from as far away as Abbotabad in the country's northeast and Quetta, on the western border with Afghanistan. They arrived in buses and cars, on foot and by donkey cart. As dawn broke on the morning of her arrival, the crowds awoke from the highway medians where they had passed the night in hopes of getting a glimpse of a leader few had seen other than from a television screen. Babur Khan, a 28-year-old employee at the Karachi stock exchange said excitedly, "She will bring employment, she will restore democracy, and she will bring...