Just over a year ago, the Pentagon had promised a "shock and awe" campaign in Iraq, and by George, we got shock this past week -- an abundance of it.
It seems the president is allergic not just to the words but to the concept of responsibility that underlies them. To apologize would be to admit he'd made a mistake. And mistakes are forbidden in the Bush White House.
But Bush does not have the guts to do it. He swallowed Sharon's calculated insult and, publicly humiliated, smiled like a little boy.
There is something seriously wrong with a man who denies any economic problems, any budget problems, any problems in intelligence and any problems in Iraq and insists he has made no mistakes. One has to wonder if he isn't living in his own private world.
"You should have threatened your accusers with legal action. When I warn those who claim in their vicious postcards that my mother was Eichmann's daughter that they will receive a solicitor's letter - Peggy Fisk was in the RAF in the Second World War, but
``You have placed U.S. diplomats, civilians and military doing their jobs overseas in an untenable and even dangerous position,'' ...
Post-colonial theories examine the discourses and representations that are present at every level of Western art, history and culture, which express, reveal and perpetuate the imbalance in power relations between Western nations and the recently decoloniz
Bush could suffer a net loss of one-third (170,000) of Arab-American votes in the four states compared with the 2000 elections, when he won a solid plurality of those votes.
Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) of Illinois will address the Arab American Institute Foundation's 2004 Kahlil Gibran "Spirit of Humanity" Awards.
Siegman said Israel chose to ignore potential partners such as the Palestinian Authority's current prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, because Sharon would rather impose a solution than negotiate.
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