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Rice and Straw
From EPA/ Geoff Caddick

Rice Visits Baghdad in Desperation Over Iraqi Leadership

The secretary of state and U.K. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw drop in on Baghdad unannounced - ostensibly to urge government unity, but in all likelihood to try to force the Iraqi prime minister out of his post.

Posted on Apr 2, 2006 READ MORE  | 22 READS


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AP / Michael Probst

Carroll Disavows Statements Against U.S.

The freed American journalist said her captors forced her to make the anti-U.S. propaganda tape, and told her she would be released if she cooperated.
UPDATE: Carroll lands safely in Boston.

Posted on Apr 1, 2006 READ MORE  | 181 READS


Seven Questions: What’s Next for Iraq?

An Arabic-speaking U.S. reporter in Iraq talks about the possible collapse of the country, and urges American policymakers to make friendly overtures toward Iran.

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Karen Spector

Nuke Expert: Some U.S. Officials Set on Hitting Iran

A growing number of high level American officials have already decided they want to attack Iran, according to one of the world’s leading nuclear proliferations experts.

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From Bloomberg News

William F. Buckley: Bush Will Be Judged on “Failed” Iraq War

If he’d invented the Bill of Rights it wouldn’t get him out of his jam,Ӕ the father of the American conservative movement says of the president, in a Bloomberg News interview with Judy Woodruff.

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    Posted on Mar 31, 2006 READ MORE  | 670 READS


    Ex-DeLay Aide Pleads Guilty in Lobby Case

    Rep. Tom DeLay’s former top aide admitted to conspiring with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff to corrupt public officials and defraud his clients.
    The stench of corruption spirals ever upward

    Posted on Mar 31, 2006 READ MORE  | 33 READS


    Hatch, John Dean Trade Barbs at Censure Hearing

    After Nixon-era whistle-blower John Dean speaks in favor of censuring Bush, Sen. Orrin Hatch tells him: “Quit trying to score political points.”

    Posted on Mar 31, 2006 READ MORE  | 81 READS


    Glasnost at NASA

    The space agency will now allow its scientists to speak to the media without public affairs officials muzzling them.

    Posted on Mar 31, 2006 READ MORE  | 60 READS


    Shocker: Study Shrugs Off Prayer’s Power to Heal

    A nationwide study finds that having strangers pray for heart patients does not help their health. In fact, the prayed-for are actually more likely to suffer complications.

    Posted on Mar 31, 2006 READ MORE  | 59 READS


    Rice Concedes Errors in Iraq

    The secretary of state admits that the U.S. has probably made thousands of “tactical errors” in Iraq but defends the larger policy of invading Iraq.

    Posted on Mar 31, 2006 READ MORE  | 59 READS


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    From Brad Blog

    Jon Stewart Rips Bush’s Bolten Selection

    His take on Bush’s appointment of Josh Bolten as chief of staff: “He just gave a promotion to the guy in charge of our $9-trillion debt. You know what? I really think if you walked into a cabinet meeting and started hurling your feces at the wall, Bush would name a state after you.”

    Posted on Mar 30, 2006 READ MORE  | 71 READS


    Bush Was Warned Repeatedly on Aluminum Tubes

    Karl Rove kept the public from knowing before the 2004 election that Bush had been apprised “directly and repeatedly” that Saddam’s infamous aluminum tubes might have been for conventional—not nuclear—weapons.

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    Ibrahim al-Jaafari
    From Christoph Bangert/Polaris/NY Times

    Iraqi Leader to U.S.: Stop Meddling

    Jafaari rebuffs Bush’s alleged call for him to step down, telling Washington to stop interfering in Iraq’s politics.

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    American Reporter Set Free in Iraq

    Jill Carroll, 28, was released unharmed after nearly three months of captivity. “I was treated well, but I don’t know why I was kidnapped,” she tells Iraqi TV. As yet, there is no explanation as to why she was let go.

    Posted on Mar 29, 2006 READ MORE  | 10 READS


    New Lobbying Law Falls Short on Reform

    The bill, which passed 90 to 8, requires lobbyists to disclose more information about their interactions with lawmakers, but there’s little increase in the enforcement of ethics laws.

    Posted on Mar 29, 2006 READ MORE  | 36 READS


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