By Molly Ivins
AlterNet August 22, 2006 Royal Masset, a Texas Republican political consultant who has been accused of being less than brilliant, recently had this to say about Karl Rove: "I think we actually like Karl a lot more now than we did when he was more active locally." He told the San Antonio Express-News he believed that Rove in Washington is remaining loyal to Bush while "fighting the good fight. He's fighting budgets. He's fighting wars. He's doing conservative kinds of things."
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Posted by David DeGraw
August 22, 2006. In light of Bush's recent puzzlement over the fact that the Iraqi people are not appreciative of the US occupation of their country, Jon Stewart interviewed their Baghdad Senior Bureau Chief to get the inside scoop on why they are so damn ungrateful.
Click to see the Daily Show Clip.
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CNN
22 August 06 WASHINGTON -- President Bush has authorized the U.S. Marine Corps to recall 2,500 troops to active duty because there are not enough volunteers returning for duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, Marine commanders announced Tuesday.
The recall was authorized last month, and will begin in spring 2007 to fill positions for upcoming rotations, Marine officials said. The Marine Corps is currently picking volunteers from the Marine Individual Ready Reserve, the officials said. |
By Kim Sengupta
22 August 2006 The second trial of Saddam Hussein, who is accused of killing thousands of Kurds with poison, began yesterday with the former Iraqi leader refusing to accept the "laws of occupation".
Saddam and seven fellow defendants, among them his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid - known as "Chemical Ali" - refused to enter a plea at the hearing to charges of genocide and war crimes. |
Agence France Presse
23 August 06 WASHINGTON (AFP) - For the first time since it began, a majority of Americans believe the Iraq war is not part of the war on terrorism, as US President George W. Bush keeps insisting it is, according to a poll.
Fifty-one percent of the 1,206 adults surveyed in the August 17-21 New York Times/CBS News poll believed the two wars were separate, while 44 percent saw a link between them. In June, opinion was split evenly at 41 percent. |
Bush is crap, says Prescott - UK Deputy PM criticises US handling of Middle East, condemning 'cowboy' President at private meeting
By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor
The Independent 17 August 2006 John Prescott has given vent to his private feelings about the Bush presidency, summing up George Bush's administration in a single word: crap.
The Deputy Prime Minister's condemnation of President Bush and his approach to the Middle East could cause a diplomatic row but it will please Labour MPs who are furious about Tony Blair's backing of the United States over the bombing of Lebanon. The remark is said to have been made at a private meeting in Mr Prescott's Whitehall office on Tuesday with Muslim MPs and other Labour MPs with constituencies representing large Muslim communities. Muslim MPs wanted to press home their objections to British foreign policy and discuss ways of improving relations with the Muslim communities. |
By Francisco Sarsfield Cabral
Jornal Tribuna, Macau Translated By Brandi Miller August 16, 2006 |
By Ding Gang
People's Daily Editor August 17, 2006 Is the flagging effort in Iraq the death knell of the Neocon creed? - the attempt to impose U.S.-style democracy by force of arms has revealed to the American people and the world the bankruptcy of those surrounding President Bush.
Iraq seems to have been forgotten. On August 10, the shocking scenes at London's Heathrow airport raised the fears of the British and Americans to the highest level and attracted media attention from around the world. People were frightened, imagining a dozen airplanes exploding in the sky over the Atlantic. Passengers waiting for flights couldn't shrug off the shadow of fear taunting their hearts.
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