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Bush, The Appeaser “delivers nothing but a lousy speech”

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(CBS/AP) Egypt’s state-owned press opened fire Saturday on U.S. President George W. Bush as he arrived for talks with regional leaders at the conclusion of a five-day Mideast tour.
The newspapers, whose management are all appointed by the government, criticized Mr. Bush’s speech Thursday in front of the Israeli Knesset for being overly supportive of [...]

Bush Legacy: What Should Be The First Chapter

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When it comes to power, the Bush administration has always firmly believed two things: first, the President should have more of it; and second, international institutions like the U.N. should have less of it. In that respect, the landmark ruling on U.S. treaty commitments handed down by the Supreme Court Tuesday seems to be both [...]

Bush Exit Strategy, Spend $3.1 Trillion, Let Rebates Boost China

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WASHINGTON — President Bush unveiled a $3.1 trillion budget on Monday that supports sizable increases in military spending to fight the war on terrorism and protects his signature tax cuts.
The spending proposal, which shows the government spending $3 trillion in a 12-month period for the first time in history, squeezes most of [...]

Bush-Pelosi deal - Stimulates The Senate And IRS

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Washington Post Op Ed
It will take some heroics by the Internal Revenue Service to get any tax rebate checks out by June — assuming a bill passes the Senate soon. Several Senate Democrats have said they plan to tinker with the Bush-Pelosi deal, trying to add not only unemployment insurance and food stamps but [...]

Iraqi Children For Sale

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UNICEF:
- An estimated 2 million children in Iraq continue to face threats including poor nutrition, disease and interrupted education.
- Many of the 220,000 displaced children of primary school age had their education interrupted.
- An estimated 760,000 children (17 per cent) did not go to primary schools in 2006.
- An average 25,000 [...]

Global Shift In Wealth May Not Include America

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Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth
Iran, Russia and Venezuela Feel the Benefits
High oil prices are fueling one of the biggest transfers of wealth in history. Oil consumers are paying $4 billion to $5 billion more for crude oil every day than they did just five years ago, pumping more than $2 trillion [...]

George ‘WALL’ Bush Builds Legacy With Concrete and Chain Link

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Walls are everywhere in Baghdad, put up by U.S. forces to offer a degree of security to hard-pressed residents. But do they merely perpetuate divisions? Critics argue the walls divide communities, stifle economic activity, imprison residents and only widen the sectarian rifts that remain at the root of Iraq’s political gridlock. Full Article

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Putin Mocks Rice And Gates Foreign Policy And Dismisses Bush Goals

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Putin Publicly Rebukes Rice, Gates on Foreign Policy Goals
MOSCOW, Oct. 12 — Two of President Bush’s most senior Cabinet members pitched an unusual new missile defense partnership Friday to Russian President Vladimir Putin, but they received a firm public rebuke as the Kremlin made clear it remains deeply skeptical of the administration’s foreign policy goals.
Secretary [...]

Bush and Olmert, Crafting Amageddon, Who’s God At Work

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Israel consulted US before Syria strike, report says
Israel’s decision to launch an air strike against a suspected nuclear site in Syria allegedly set up with the help of North Korea came after Israel shared intelligence with the US, it was reported today.
Binyamin Netanyahu, yesterday confirmed in a TV interview that such an attack did take [...]

Poorly Trained Troops Have No Clue How To Behave

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Documents Show Troops Disregarding Rules
by Ryan Lenz
New documents released Tuesday regarding crimes committed by U.S. soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan detail a troubling pattern of troops failing to understand and follow the rules that govern interrogations and deadly actions.
“The simple fact of the matter is interrogation is supposed to be stressful or you [...]

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