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Rice, Straw, Good Intentions, Lies of Necessity, Bricks & Mortar:
I was lying then, but I'm not lying now:...Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart have made a surprise visit to Baghdad to press Iraqi leaders to form a new government.The visit by the US secretary of state and Jack Straw came a day after members of the ruling Shia Alliance bloc broke ranks publicly and joined calls for Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the prime minister, to step down to improve chances of ending political paralysis.
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is considering expanding bank operations in Iraq, which would put his agency at the center of rebuilding from a war he helped plan as the Pentagon's former No. 2 official.
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The vast majority of the U.S. public appears to have grown thoroughly disillusioned with Pres. George W. Bush's crusade to spread democracy abroad, according to a new survey by one of the country's premier public opinion analysts.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice conceded Friday that the United States probably has made thousands of "tactical errors" in Iraq and elsewhere, but said it will be judged by its larger aims of peace and democracy in the Middle East.
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Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist says it is all right that President Bush broke FISA because he did it with the best of intentions. And Republicans now want to revise the law so presidents don't have to bother with the courts at all before wiretapping us.
Where do we get the strength to fight this and other encroachments on so many areas of progress made in the past 100 years? Too often, people think we cannot possibly do what a more heroic person - Dr. King comes to mind - has done to change the world. But it is worth remembering that those heroes and heroines of the past also lived in a time of frightening repression and fear, when many of those in power seemed hopelessly out of touch with reality and humanity.
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...the State Department's announcement last November that it intended to waive Congressionally-imposed human rights conditions on military aid and sales to Indonesia in appreciation of Jakarta's "unique strategic role in Southeast Asia".
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Jill Carroll has distanced herself from statements she made during captivity in Iraq and shortly after her release.
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April 8th marks the second anniversary of the US military's attack on Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, which at the time contained scores of reporters and media people reporting on the US invasion. Two journalists were killed and others wounded. On the same morning, a journalist was killed when the Baghdad offices of the Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera were attacked by US fighter planes.
