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Federal Way schools restrict Gore film'Inconvenient Truth' called too controversial
Thursday, January 11, 2007
By ROBERT MCCLURE AND LISA STIFFLER
P-I REPORTERS
NOTE: This story has been altered since it was originally published. Thecomputer program Al Gore uses to present scientists' findings in the movie"An Inconvenient Truth" is Keynote. A competing software program's name wasmentioned in the earlier version of the story.
This week in Federal Way schools, it got a lot more inconvenient to show oneof the top-grossing documentaries in U.S. history, the global-warming alert"An Inconvenient Truth."
After a parent who supports the teaching of creationism and opposes sexeducation complained about the film, the Federal Way School Board on Tuesdayplaced what it labeled a moratorium on showing the film. The movie consistslargely of a computer presentation by former Vice President Al Gorerecounting scientists' findings.
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Bush Breaks 150-Year History of Higher US Taxes in Wartime
By Brian Faler
Bloomberg
Friday 12 January 2007
It was once considered Americans' patriotic duty: enduring extraordinarytax increases in wartime to help finance the fight.
Not today. Iraq is the only major U.S. conflict, except for the 1846-48Mexican-American War, in which citizens haven't been asked to make a specialfinancial sacrifice. President George W. Bush opposes tax increases, even asthe costs escalate far beyond predictions and he calls for more troops.
"It's a reflection of either a lack of public support for the war orperhaps an unwillingness of the Bush administration" to test its popularity,said Elliot Brownlee, an economic historian retired from the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara.
The Bush administration, which says any tax increase would harm theeconomy, is financing the Iraq conflict with borrowed money. That sparespolicy makers and pro-war politicians from riling voters already soured onthe war.
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January 12, 2007
A thoughtful 'primal scream' on Iraq
A hearty "Amen, brother!" to my friend Terry Michael, for his blisteringcritique of how Democrats rolled over for the president in the monthsleading up to the Iraq war. And worse yet, as Terry points out, they'restill rolling over - though, I would add, for the opposite reason.
Even though Terry's "primal scream" is from the left, it found a home in aright-wing newspaper- the Washington Times - that no doubt considers theenemy of its enemy its friend:
Like millions of other Americans, I can no longer contain the primalscream I want to direct at the members of my party who declined to engage areal debate in the run-up to this completely avoidable misjudgment of oldmen and women, willing to send boys and girls to die for their ideologicalhallucinations and political cowardice.
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Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-070114obama-story,1,7654298,print.story?coll=chi-newslocal-hed
Meet Obama's inner circle
Ahead of likely presidential campaign, senator relies on core of trustedadvisers
By Mike Dorning and Christi Parsons
Tribune staff reporter
January 14, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The gravitational pull around Sen. Barack Obama grows strongerday by day, as he and his advisers seek commitments from politicaloperatives and donors in preparation for a likely run for the presidency.
The existing core of advisers around the Illinois Democrat simultaneouslyanchors him in the pragmatic sensibility of his urban Midwestern home baseand encompasses the world of ideas of his Harvard Law School classmates.
The political professionals who are Obama's closest formal advisers arecareful, deliberate counselors, wary of unnecessary risks and no strangersto campaign street fights. The informal coterie is a multihued collection ofhigh achievers, men and women who are friends and intellectual peers.
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January 14, 2007
Sharpton: Don't celebrate yet, King's fight not over
By JOHN BOZZO
Staff Writer
DAYTONA BEACH -- Speaking at a posh banquet in the Hilton Oceanfront Resorthere Saturday, the Rev. Al Sharpton warned against letting celebrations hidethe legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The slain civil rights leader, who is remembered with a national holiday onMonday, fought for social justice, fairness and an end to war andsegregation, Sharpton said.
"If we are not careful, people will forget the mission and the work thatmade Dr. King worthy of this holiday," said Sharpton, a politician, civilrights activist and Pentecostal minister. "Dr King was a fighter for justiceand for peace when it wasn't popular."
Sharpton said black people with same backgrounds as white people are stillmore likely to be unemployed, go to jail, have a major disease and be turneddown for a bank loan.
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Prince Harry preparing for Iraq?
January 14, 2007
LONDON -- A British newspaper reported today that Prince Harry was to startfinal training for deployment to Iraq with his army regiment, but theDefense Ministry said no decision had been made on whether he would bedeployed.
The News of the World said the 22-year-old prince, who is third in line tothe throne, would take part in a two-day pre-deployment course that includesinstruction in basic Arabic phrases.
Harry, known as ''Cornet Wales'' by his Blues and Royals regiment, hastrained to command 11 soldiers and four Scimitar tanks.
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011201952_pf.html
The Imperial Presidency
By Dahlia Lithwick
Sunday, January 14, 2007; B02
Why is the United States poised to try Jose Padilla as a dangerousterrorist, long after it has become clear that he was just the wrong Muslimin the wrong airport on the wrong day?
Why is Washington still holding hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay,Cuba, long after years of interrogation and abuse have established that few,if any, of them are the deadly terrorists they have been held out to be?
And why is President Bush still issuing grandiose and provocative signingstatements, the latest of which claims that the executive branch has thepower to open mail when it sees fit?
I once believed that the common thread here is presidential blindness -- anextreme executive-branch myopia that leads the chief executive to believethat these futile measures are integral to combating terrorism; aself-delusion that precludes Bush and his advisers from recognizing thatPadilla is a chump and Guantanamo Bay is just a holding pen for a jumble ofinnocent or half-guilty wretches.
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011201951_pf.html
In Baghdad, a Test Of the Petraeus Principles
By Jim Hoagland
Sunday, January 14, 2007; B07
Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, the soldier-intellectual chosen by President Bushto provide new leadership in the war in Iraq, got one thing he needed fromthe president Wednesday night. But what was missing will ultimately be moreimportant than what was provided.
Petraeus, who holds a doctorate from Princeton, is often described as thesmartest and most ambitious member of the class of generals and admiralsavailable to Bush. He has been given a rare opportunity to put the theorieshe has developed as a man of ideas into battlefield practice as a man ofaction.
Shortly before Bush appointed him to command the multinational forces inIraq, Petraeus finished assembling a new counterinsurgency training manualfor U.S. forces. The manual's opening sections emphasize the importance ofpolitical will in avoiding defeat in unconventional warfare:
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The Miami Herald
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16447851.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
Posted on Sun, Jan. 14, 2007
Yes, you could say mistakes have been made
By CARL HIAASEN
President Bush's prime-time TV appearance on Wednesday night was way morethan a speech. It was a séance.
The man was plainly in a deep trance, channeling Lyndon Johnson and RichardNixon.
Give us more, more, more, the president kept saying, and we'll fix thismess.
More soldiers. More money. More time.
It's what is best for the country, Bush recited somberly -- our nationalsecurity is at stake.
Good morning, Vietnam!
The president didn't mention that nasty ''conflict'' by name, but he didn'tneed to. You remember the old script -- just scratch out ''communists'' andpencil in ``terrorists.''
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011201955_pf.html
Petraeus on Vietnam's Legacy
Sunday, January 14, 2007; B04
Among Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus's qualifications for the post of seniorU.S. military commander in Iraq is his work training Iraqi security forces,as well as his oversight of the Army and Marine Corps' updatedcounterinsurgency field manual. But another document may prove useful toPetraeus in Iraq. In 1987, he earned a PhD from Princeton's Woodrow WilsonSchool with a 328-page thesis titled "The American Military and the Lessonsof Vietnam: A Study of Military Influence and the Use of Force in thePost-Vietnam Era." Excerpts below.
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011202056_pf.html
The Time to Negotiate Is Now
By Robert K. Brigham
Sunday, January 14, 2007; B01
They're reportedly favorite reruns on Arab television: scenes of U.S. troopspacking up and going home, from Beirut in 1983, Mogadishu in 1993 and thatpanicked flight from Vietnam in 1975. The message in these images, broadcastrepeatedly on al-Jazeera, al-Manar and other channels, is clear: The UnitedStates doesn't have the will to win. Soon, it will pull out of Baghdad justas its diplomats hightailed it out of Saigon.
Islamic radicals' fervent dream that Iraq will turn out to be anotherVietnam has now become Washington's nightmare. Despite President Bush's callfor more troops in Iraq, each day seems to bring closer an endgame therethat could echo the one of three decades earlier, with U.S. helicopterslanding "inside the Green Zone, taking people off the roof," as Sen. JosephR. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) recently put it.
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011202061_pf.html
Don't Ban Your Instincts, Ban Ki-moon
By John R. Bolton
Sunday, January 14, 2007; B01
Ban Ki-moon, the new U.N. secretary general, has done some unusual things tokick off his tenure. At the recent annual dinner of the U.N. CorrespondentsAssociation in New York, for instance, he entertained the guests briefly bysinging, to the tune originally written for Santa Claus, his ownarrangement: "Ban Ki-moon is coming to town."
On Tuesday, Ban is coming to this town, his first visit since assumingoffice on Jan. 1. The former South Korean foreign minister has already madeit clear that he intends to be a different kind of "SG" from hispredecessor. The United States backed Ban for his new post, largely withsuch a change in mind. Nonetheless, his first few days in office havealready raised some questions. The struggle is underway to determine whatsort of leader Ban will be: Will the status quo of the U.N. system overwhelmhim, or will he follow his instincts and those of his supporters, includingWashington?
Consider the following issues:
First, responding to Iraq's recent execution of Saddam Hussein, Ban saidthat the decision of whether to invoke the death penalty is a matter foreach U.N. member state to decide for itself. This provoked howls of outragefrom the international high-minded, who over the past decade hadsuccessfully encouraged U.N. resolutions opposing the death penalty from theU.N. Human Rights Commission (a body that eventually was abolished becauseit had only an incidental relationship with human rights).
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011202054_pf.html
Trapped by Hubris, Again
By Robert G. Kaiser
Sunday, January 14, 2007; B01
After nearly four years of ineffectual war-fighting, after the collapse ofdomestic support for President Bush and his policies, after the expenditureof thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, it no longerseems possible to avoid the grim conclusion: For the United States, Iraq hasbecome another Vietnam.
Fortunately, the overall death toll in Iraq so far, while high, is stillsmaller than it was in Vietnam. But tragically, the most importantdifference between the two conflicts may be that defeat in Iraq is likely toproduce catastrophic consequences for that nation, its neighbors and theUnited States, too.
For a gray-haired journalist whose career included 18 months covering theVietnam War for The Washington Post, it is a source of amazement to realizethat my country has done this again. We twice took a huge risk in the hopethat we could predict and dominate events in a nation whose history we didnot know, whose language few of us spoke, whose rivalries we didn'tunderstand, whose expectations for life, politics and economics were allforeign to many Americans.
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/world/americas/14iran.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print
January 14, 2007
Iranian President Visits Venezuela to Strengthen Ties
By SIMON ROMERO
CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 13 - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran arrivedhere on Saturday for talks with President Hugo Chávez, on the first leg of aLatin American visit to enhance Tehran's stature with governments wheredistrust of the Bush administration already runs deep.
It is Mr. Ahmadinejad's second visit to Venezuela in the past five months,and the two leaders were scheduled to talk about strengthening theireconomic ties. From here, the Iranian president is to visit Ecuador andNicaragua, where leftist presidents aligned with Mr. Chávez are takingoffice this month.
Venezuela's government promoted the visit as an example of Middle Easternsolidarity with Mr. Chávez's opposition to American foreign policy.Venezuela has been a vociferous defender of Iran as the United States stepsup efforts to circumscribe Mr. Ahmadinejad's government, most recentlythrough military raids this week on people suspected of being Iranianoperatives in Iraq.
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/nyregion/14title.html?ei=5094&en=090f473f31a8e170&hp=&ex=1168837200&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1168794056-w14wke+F2FVfCXUZjvr5oQ
January 14, 2007
Equal Cheers for Boys and Girls Draw Some Boos
By WINNIE HU
WHITNEY POINT, N.Y. - Thirty girls signed up for the cheerleading squad thiswinter at Whitney Point High School in upstate New York. But upon learningthey would be waving their pompoms for the girls' basketball team as well asthe boys', more than half of the aspiring cheerleaders dropped out.
The eight remaining cheerleaders now awkwardly adjust their routines forwhichever team is playing here on the home court - "Hands Up You Guys"becomes "Hands Up You Girls"- to comply with a new ruling from federaleducation officials interpreting Title IX, the law intended to guaranteegender equality in student sports.
"It feels funny when we do it," said Amanda Cummings, 15, the cheerleadingco-captain, who forgot the name of a female basketball player mid-cheer lastmonth.
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/world/middleeast/14rice.html?pagewanted=print
January 14, 2007
Rice Backs Mideast Moderates, but Offers No Plan
By THOM SHANKER and GREG MYRE
JERUSALEM, Jan. 13 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Israelicounterpart declared their mutual backing on Saturday for a bilateraldiplomatic strategy that would support moderate political leaders across theMiddle East, but after a first evening of talks here offered little new topush ahead any agreement with the Palestinians.
Ms. Rice played down expectations for any breakthrough during her travels.
"I expect this trip to really be one in which we have intensiveconsultations," she said to open weeklong travels across the Middle East andthe Persian Gulf before consulting with allies in Western Europe. "I'm notcoming with a proposal. I'm not coming with a plan."
The focus of her first two days is to push Israeli and Palestinian leadersto move forward on a number of smaller issues, and then she will speak withother regional allies to try to gather support for President Bush's newstrategy for Iraq.
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/washington/14spy.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=203bd3d1f0cd9644&hp=&ex=1168750800&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1168772846-tOy/rT1FTk70g7N3mBUsBA&pagewanted=print
January 14, 2007
Military Is Expanding Its Intelligence Role in U.S.
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 - The Pentagon has been using a little-known power toobtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and otherssuspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part of anaggressive expansion by the military into domestic intelligence gathering.
The C.I.A. has also been issuing what are known as national security lettersto gain access to financial records from American companies, though it hasdone so only rarely, intelligence officials say.
Banks, credit card companies and other financial institutions receiving theletters usually have turned over documents voluntarily, allowinginvestigators to examine the financial assets and transactions of Americanmilitary personnel and civilians, officials say.
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/opinion/14sun1.html?pagewanted=print
January 14, 2007
Editorial
Picking Up the Pieces
It was surreal how disconnected President Bush was the other night, bothfrom Iraq's horrifying reality and America's anguish over this unnecessary,mismanaged and now unwinnable war. Indeed, most Americans seem far ahead ofthe president. They understand that what the country urgently needs is forMr. Bush to chart a way out of Iraq that also limits the chaos that will beleft behind.
The president's disconnect goes far to explain the harshly critical reactionof Congress and the public to his plan to further bleed America'soverstretched forces by sending some 20,000 additional troops in an attemptto impose peace on Baghdad's vengeful streets. He proposes to do thatwithout any enforceable commitments from the Iraqi government that it willtake the necessary political steps that are the only hope for tamping down aspiraling civil war.
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/13/AR2007011301189_pf.html
House GOP Shows Its Fractiousness In the Minority
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 14, 2007; A01
House Republican leaders, who confidently predicted they would drive a wedgethrough the new Democratic majority, have found their own party splintering,with Republican lawmakers siding with Democrats in droves on the House'sopening legislative blitz.
Freed from the pressures of being the majority and from the heavy hand offormer leaders including retired representative Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), manyback-bench Republicans are showing themselves to be more moderate than theirconservative leadership and increasingly mindful of shifting votersentiment. The closest vote last week -- Friday's push to require thefederal government to negotiate lower drug prices for Medicare -- pulled 24Republicans. The Democrats' homeland security bill attracted 68 Republicans,the minimum wage increase 82.
"You're freer to vote your conscience," said Rep. Jo Anne Emerson (R-Mo.),who received an 88 percent voting record from the American ConservativeUnion in 2005 but has so far sided with Democrats on new budget rules,Medicare prescription-drug negotiations, raising the minimum wage andfunding stem cell research. "Or, really, I feel free to represent myconstituents exactly as they want me to be."
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/washington/14spyside.html?_r=1&adxnnl=0&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1168751148-sWwJH98TCgDIqJjz7/XSLg&pagewanted=print
January 14, 2007
Deletions in Army Manual Raise Wiretapping Concerns
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 - Deep into an updated Army manual, the deletion of 10words has left some national security experts wondering whether governmentlawyers are again asserting the executive branch's right to wiretapAmericans without a court warrant.
The manual, described by the Army as a "major revision" tointelligence-gathering guidelines, addresses policies and procedures forwiretapping Americans, among other issues.
The original guidelines, from 1984, said the Army could seek to wiretappeople inside the United States on an emergency basis by going to the secretcourt set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, orby obtaining certification from the attorney general "issued under theauthority of section 102(a) of the Act."
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/us/14library.html?pagewanted=print
January 14, 2007
A Discordant Chorus Questions Visions for a Bush Library at SouthernMethodist
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
HOUSTON, Jan. 13 - With growing faculty unease over plans to enshrinePresident Bush's official papers and a policy institute at SouthernMethodist University in Dallas, the process of creating the nation's 13thpresidential library is off to a familiar start: discord.
On Thursday, 68 theologians, professors and other faculty members presentand past, citing complaints about President Bush's "poor marks" on civilliberties, the environment, gay rights and the war in Iraq, sent theuniversity president a letter questioning whether visions of the librarywere consistent with the school's religious and academic values.
"According to George Bush's closest associates, the half-billion-dollarendowment will be used by the institute to hire conservative scholars toagree to 'write papers and books favorable to the president's policies,' "said the letter calling for a campuswide dialogue on the affiliation.
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http://select.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/opinion/14brooks.html?pagewanted=print
The New York Times
January 14, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
The American Way of Equality
By DAVID BROOKS
Income inequality is on the rise. The rich are getting better at passingtheir advantages on to their kids. Lifestyle and values gaps are wideningbetween the educated and uneducated. So the big issue is: Will Americansdemand new policies to reverse these trends — to redistribute wealth, toprovide greater economic security? Are we about to see a mass populistmovement in this country?
Nobody was smarter on this subject than Seymour Martin Lipset, the eminentsociologist who died at 84 on New Year’s Eve. Lipset had been a socialist inthe hothouse atmosphere of City College during the 1940s, and though helater became a moderate Democrat, he continued to wonder, with some regret,why America never had a serious socialist movement, why America neveradopted a European-style welfare state.
Lipset was aware of the structural and demographic answers to suchquestions. For example, racially diverse nations tend to have lower levelsof social support than homogeneous ones. People don’t feel as bound togetherwhen they are divided on ethnic lines and are less likely to embrace mutualsupport programs. You can have diversity or a big welfare state. It’s hardto have both.
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The New York Times
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/opinion/14rich.html
January 14, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
He’s in the Bunker Now
By FRANK RICH
PRESIDENT BUSH always had one asset he could fall back on: theself-confidence of a born salesman. Like Harold Hill in “The Music Man,” heknew how to roll out a new product, however deceptive or useless, withconviction and stagecraft. What the world saw on Wednesday night was adefeated Willy Loman who looked as broken as his war. His flop sweat waspalpable even if you turned down the sound to deflect despair-inducingphrases like “Prime Minister Maliki has pledged ...” and “Secretary Ricewill leave for the region. ...”
Mr. Bush seemed to know his product was snake oil, and his White Househandlers did too. In the past, they made a fetish of situating their star intelegenic settings, from aircraft carriers to Ellis Island. Or they placedhim against Orwellian backdrops shrieking “Plan for Victory." But this timeeven the audio stuttered, as if in solidarity with Baghdad’s continuingelectricity blackout, and the Oval Office was ditched, lest it summon upmemories of all those past presidential sightings of light at the end of theIraqi tunnel. Mr. Bush was banished to the White House library, where thebackdrop was acres of books, to signify the studiousness of his rethinkingof the “way forward.”
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http://select.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/opinion/14kristof.html
The New York Times
January 14, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
Stumbling Around the World
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
With Iraq sliding off a cliff, and now tugging another 20,000 youngAmericans along as well, it’s worth wrestling with a larger question: Whyare we so awful at foreign policy?
Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize, dropped bythe other day, and she made the same point with characteristic bluntness.“It amazes me that the U.S., with all its scientific accomplishments, is soshortsighted in its foreign policy,” she noted.
It is pathetic. We can go safely to the moon but not to Anbar Province. Wecan peer into the farthest reaches of the universe, but we fail to notice(until it’s too late) that many Iraqis loathe us. We produce movies thatdelight audiences all over the world, but we can’t devise a foreign policythat anybody likes.
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January 12, 2007
The Neuropsychology of George W. Bush
By Abbas Sadeghian, Ph.D.
"Why don't they have Bibles? Can we get them Bibles? Would they likeBibles?"
The most reported inquiry by George Bush about the fate of the US Air crewof the American surveillance plane downed over China.
Newsweek, April 23, 2001, Atlantic edition
When I read of the above quote in the papers during the Chinese stand off, Iwas happy to find the missing link in understanding George Bush.
The incident occurred five months before 911. An American spy plane collidedwith a Chinese fighter plane, forcing the American plane to land on anisland off of China. The crew had infuriated the Chinese by remaining lockedin the plane until they had destroyed sensitive material and equipment. Whenthey emerged, they were taken prisoner and were held for 22 days whileAmerica negotiated for their release.
As State Department officials worked on the situation, President Bush madethe above comment, which was considered the most reported statement of theevent.
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