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...With democracy having produced the "wrong" result, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice slammed the policy gears into reverse. For the past year, the Bush Administration has insisted that President Abbas take personal charge of the Palestinian security forces, and has blocked donors from paying any funds to the democratic institutions of the PA until Hamas accepts its demands to recognize Israel and renounce violence. Instead, it has called for support not for the democratically elected government of the Palestinians, but for President Abbas personally. The Administration has sought funds from Congress to create new Palestinian security forces answerable directly...
...them. Any fighters who come to Hamed's aid are likely to include Sunni militants with some degree of affinity for al-Qaeda in Iraq or the insurgency. Hamed acknowledges as much, and he tells Cartee again and again that he'd hate to end up on the wrong side of the Americans. But time is running out, and few other options remain as long as U.S. forces are unable to quell the sectarian violence overwhelming the streets here...
...thin skin - and once the shock of the tragedy wore off and the investigation began, Brazilians immediately rushed to point the finger at others. Leaks from police, investigators or military officers who run Brazil's air traffic system portrayed the two pilots as irresponsible amateurs who flew at the wrong altitude, ignored controllers' orders, performed reckless maneuvers, changed their flight plan without notifying the tower or switched off crucial equipment that could have warned the approaching jet of their presence in the same air lane...
...bloody incident in Haditha, 60 miles north of Baghdad, on November 19, 2005. After Marine Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas was killed by a powerful insurgent bomb which struck a Marine convoy, his fellow squad members killed 24 Iraqis, including some who local civilians claim were innocents simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Marines initially reported that only 15 Iraqis had died, and that they had been killed by a roadside bomb. Senior Marine officers did not investigate the deadly incident until TIME first raised questions in March...
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, on his regrets about the Iraq war. He said such phrases as "bring it on ... sent the wrong signal...