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...hasn't done much so far. In her early months as Secretary of State, Rice would sidestep questions about Iraq by stating that the presence of 150,000 troops on the ground meant it was mostly the Pentagon's problem. But that argument has become less persuasive as the violence has continued and all military options - short of a massive increase in U.S. troops - have proven ineffective in dealing with the insurgency. By now, even Bush's dog Barney knows that extricating ourselves from Iraq will require cutting some ugly political deals with an assortment of rogues, who might...
...President Bush has offered to send envoys to join European Union diplomats in direct talks with Iranian representatives over the nuclear problem, but only if and after Tehran verifiably suspends its uranium enrichment program - a condition rejected by the leadership in Tehran...
...None of this, of course, absolves Rumsfeld, whose Strangeloveian dissembling on the war has always been among the more bizarre media spectacles offered up by the Administration. America is well rid of him. But it has not yet confronted the roots of its problem in Iraq so long as it avoids the culpability of Cheney, Condi Rice, and President Bush himself - not to mention Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and all those revisionist media pundits who want to blame Rumsfeld for a strategic blunder in which they all had a hand...
...Yarmuth contends his liberal positions will not be any more of a problem in office than they were as a candidate. Campaign rhetoric to the contrary, he expects to spend a lot more time on economic issues than on hot-button social issues like abortion or gay rights. "One of the things that is difficult to talk about in a campaign is just how little Congress has to do with any of those things like abortion, or gay rights or prayer in schools," he said. "Maybe this time, voters just got their priorities right...
...Zone or in the Red Zone. In the Baghdad street, almost anybody you speak with wants the U.S. forces out - yesterday. Over and over again, opinion polls have shown that the majority of Iraqis, across the sectarian and ethnic categories, see the U.S. presence as a part of the problem rather than part of the solution. But Iraqi leaders take the more realistic view that the U.S. presence, although irksome, is necessary...