Bush: 'We've Never Been Stay The Course'8217;ve Never Been Stay The Course’ During an interview today on ABC’s This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years. George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker’s plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is “between ’stay the course’ and ‘cut and run.’”
Bush responded, ‘We’ve never been stay the course, George!’ Watch it:... (more)
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Bush: 'I Have Not Read One Book About Me,' Says There's Nothing He Could Learn From ThemOn ABC’s This Week, President Bush said, “I have not read one book about me. … You know, I just — I feel uncomfortable reading about myself.” Bush said it is “weird to be reading books about yourself when you’re still trying to be the President,” and said that authors who comment on his administration before he’s out of office are “myopic.”
Stephanopoulos asked, “You don’t think there’s anything y... (more)
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1.9 mln USD for slush fund in Afghanistan burned as plane on fire BEIJING, Oct. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- More than 1.9 million U.S. dollars in cash was burned on May 24 when a British military transport aircraft caught fire after landing in southern Afghanistan, according to The Daily Mail on Sunday.
The money, packed into two four-wheel-drive vehicles being carried on the British Hercules C-130 plane, was reportedly intended to "buy off" local warlords against the Taliban.
The British Ministry of Defence on Friday night confi... (more)
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Report: Bush Officials Were ‘Rooting’ For North Korea to Test Nuclear WeaponSenior Bush administration officials wanted North Korea to test a nuclear weapon because it would prove their point that the regime must be overthrown.
This astonishing revelation was buried in the middle of a Washington Post story published yesterday. Glenn Kessler reports from Moscow as he accompanies Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice:
Before North ... (more)
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Eight more doctors suspected of illegal human experimentsEight more doctors from the Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot and the Hartzfeld Geriatric Hospital in Gedera are suspected of involvement in experiments on human beings, Chief Superintendent Meir Cohen, told the Knesset Labor and Welfare Committee on Monday.
Cohen is the head of internal investigations in the Public Security office.
Some of the suspected doctors were interrogated by local police, but none were arrested.
The new allegations bring the total ... (more)
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BBC admits: We are biased on religion and politics LONDON – The British Broadcasting Corporation has been struggling for several years against criticisms and claims of biased reporting concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and distorted coverage of the global fight against terror.
Following a diplomatic incident with Israel, the BBC appointed an editor known for his objective reporting, however, the true stance of the corporation’s editors remained the same.
An internal memo, recentl... (more)
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NY Times ombudsman now says paper was wrong to report on banking-data surveillance programIn a "mea culpa" appended to the end of his column on Sunday, the ombudsman for the New York Times now says that the paper was wrong to report on the Bush Administration's "once-secret banking-data surveillance program."
In July, Byron Calame, a former deputy managing editor for the Wall Street Journal, defended the newspaper's June 23 article which revealed that "weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records... (more)
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A Clockwork Orange: How Britain became frightened of its young Britain is becoming fearful of its young people with most adults too scared to intervene if they see misbehaviour in the street, a report says.
It claims there is a growing "paedophobia" among adults and confusion as to who is to blame for the problems of wayward youth.
The Institute of Public Policy Research, the think tank which carried out the research, found that only 34 per cent of adults would be willing to intervene if they saw a group of 14-year-... (more)
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State Department official: I misspoke on Iraq policyWASHINGTON (CNN) -- A senior State Department diplomat apologized Sunday for having told the Arab satellite network Al-Jazeera on Saturday that there is a strong possibility history will show the United States displayed "arrogance" and "stupidity" in its handling of the Iraq war.
"Upon reading the transcript of my appearance on Al-Jazeera, I realized that I seriously misspoke by using the phrase 'there has been arrogance and stupidity' by the U.S. in Iraq," Alberto Fernandez said... (more)
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Nearly half of all UK race murder victims are whiteNearly half of all victims of racially motivated murders in the last decade have been white, according to official figures released by the Home Office.
The data, released under Freedom of Information legislation, shows that between 1995 and 2004 there have been 58 murders where the police consider a racial element played a key part. Out of these, 24 have been where the murder victim was white.
The disclosure will add to the intense debate over multiculturalism in Br... (more)
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Sexless relationships becoming more common among young peopleSexless relationships becoming more common among young people Sexless relationships are becoming increasingly prominent among young couples, with 28 percent of men in their 30s having sex less than once a month, a lifestyle survey has found.
The Internet-based survey, conducted by medical-based advertising agency Dentsu, Sudler & Hennessey Inc., found that many respondents claimed stress from work, and a lack of fulfillment in their daily lives led to their sexlessness. The poll a... (more)
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Cheney - War going wellReplying to a question on a radio talk show Vice President Dick Cheney said he believes the war in Iraq is going "remarkably well." The follow up question should have been 'who is it going well for?'.
The majority of reports from Iraq overwhelmingly agree that the situation in Iraq for the United States is far from well, let alone "remarkably well."
In fact, the vice president's own boss, President George W. Bush, the same day admitted for the first time... (more)
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Millions Stolen From Iraq's Treasury(CBS News) NEW YORK More than half a billion dollars earmarked to fight the insurgency in Iraq was stolen by people the U.S. had entrusted to run the country's Ministry of Defense before the 2005 elections, according to Iraqi investigators.
Iraq's former minister of finance says coalition members like the U.S. and Britain are doing little to help recover the money or catch suspects, most of whom fled the country. The 60 Minutes investigation also turned up audio recordings of a s... (more)
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Officials Probing Possible Theft of Voting Software in MarylandThe FBI is investigating the possible theft of software developed by the nation's leading maker of electronic voting equipment, said a former Maryland legislator who this week received three computer disks that apparently contain key portions of programs created by Diebold Election Systems.
Cheryl C. Kagan, a former Democratic delegate who has long questioned the security of electronic voting systems, said the disks were delivered anonymously to her office in Olney on Tuesday ... (more)
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O'Reilly's interview with Bush: Softball questions, misleading assertions, and attacks on DemocratsOn the October 16, 17, and 18 editions of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly aired portions of his October 16 interview with President George W. Bush, which consisted of such "tough questions" as whether Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) is "soft on terrorism," whether "the anti-Bush press" is responsible for popular opposition to the war, and whether Bush was aware that critics "are trying to destroy you." O'Reilly also asked Bush, "[Y]ou work hard, right?"
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Broadcast and cable news gave GOP free air time for new fearmongering terrorism adSummary: The Republican National Committee's (RNC) new political ad -- featuring clips of Osama bin Laden and other terrorists making threats against the United States and clips of explosions -- has not yet aired as a paid advertisement, but broadcast and cable news networks have already played portions of it several times as part of their news programming -- essentially giving the RNC the opportunity to fearmonger on their airwaves free of charge.
On October 19, ... (more)
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Fox Uses a "Threat" That Was "Dissed" by Homeland Security to Terrorize its ViewersAt 4:15 p.m. ET today (October 18, 2006) during Your World w/Neil Cavuto, Fox aired a FOX NEWS ALERT and Cavuto said,
We've got news of a disturbing report coming through the Associated Press from a website claiming that seven National Football League stadiums will be attacked with radiological dirty bombs this weekend in, among other cities, New York, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston. Again, we're not getting any indications as well what the government thinks of this althoug ... (more)
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Mehlman: Democrats have "concern for terrorist civil liberties"Here's some items you should be aware of just in case you get the insane urge to reach across the metaphorical aisle and make peace with a Republican today… On the heels of George W. Bush signing the torture bill into law this week, Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Ken Mehlman has sent an e-mail to GOP supporters calling this debasement of our national creed "an important reminder of what we can accomplish when the president and Congress work together for the saf... (more)
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US says troop deaths in Iraq are price of victoryWashington - US military deaths in Iraq are the price of fighting for victory in the battle against terrorism, the White House said Wednesday, as the US military reported 10 soldiers killed in a single day. The casualties in a string of separate attacks Tuesday raised this month's US death toll above 60, making October already one of the bloodiest months for US troops since the March 2003 invasion.
Asked by a reporter whether the latest deaths would prompt US President Georg... (more)
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U.S. Confidence in War on Terror Falls to 31%Fewer Americans believe the global effort to fight terrorism is proceeding adequately, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 31 per cent of respondents think the United States and its allies are winning the war on terror, down 13 points since July.
Conversely, 36 per cent of respondents believe the terrorists are winning the war on terror—up 10 points in three months—and 22 per cent believe neither side is ahead.
Al-Qaeda operatives hijacked and cras... (more)
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Conservative Radio hosts get talking points directly from BushThe Republican party has launched a campaign to win back conservative radio stars who have "been turning against the administration on a variety of issues," and some of the biggest names (excepting the biggest) went to the White House for a presidential command performance last month, it was reported today 10/16/06. Big Story host John Gibson didn't make the cut but right-wing guest Mike Gallagher did.
Sean Hannity was among the invited elite who got their las... (more)
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Poll: 74 percent of Americans say Congress out of touch(CNN) -- Just weeks before crucial midterm elections, a new poll says nearly three quarters of Americans see Congress as out of touch, much as they did in 1994, the last time the minority party took control of Capitol Hill.
Seventy-four percent of respondents to a new Opinion Research poll say Congress is generally out of touch with average Americans. That's up from 69 percent who agreed with that view in a January poll this year.
In 1994, 75 percent of respondents... (more)
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