Word: pulling
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...Special elections are short-notice events, and there is money involved; you’re not going to have as many candidates able to pull something together,” Winters said. “If somebody just throws a light switch on and says ‘go,’ it’s different than...a vacated seat in a regular election, where there’s a lot of lead time...
...Saddam left off. He says he was suspended from such a hook three times during his five-month stint in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib. His feet were tied, and his arms were bound behind his back. "They would take a stick and put it through the rope and pull me off the ground," he says. While he was bound and suspended, a military translator stood by him, shouting: "You are a terrorist! You are a terrorist!" But no real questioning took place...
...what should be done? In the U.S., Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have called for sending some of the troops they hope to pull out of Iraq to Afghanistan instead. But that's a misguided strategy. The raid on Dadullah took place in the same area where a U.S. air strike had killed at least 21 Afghan civilians earlier in the week. Since the beginning of March, more than 130 Afghan civilians have been killed by U.S. and NATO forces. Even among those predisposed to support the West, the mounting loss of life is engendering anger that...
...THINK IT WOULD BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT POLITICALLY FOR PRESIDENT BUSH TO PULL BACK FROM WAR? I'm not so sure about that. He would have two advantages if he brought his soldiers back. I'm talking about a situation, obviously, where the inspectors say now there's nothing left, and that will take a certain number of weeks. If Iraq doesn't cooperate and the inspectors say this isn't working, it could be war. If Iraq is stripped of its weapons of mass destruction and that's been verified by the inspectors, then Mr. Bush can say two things...
...What prosecutors are left with, then, is an underwhelming case involving cryptic evidence of a murder and terrorist conspiracy that lacks names, places or pretty much any other specifics. Even if they manage to pull off a conviction, we still won't know whether Padilla really was the Dirty Bomber. And if they don't? The government has the option of reclassifying him as an enemy combatant, which, believe it or not, could start the process all over again...