Priceless!
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Amid calls to inject fresh blood into his White House staff, President Bush announced Tuesday that his chief of staff, Andrew Card, has resigned and will be replaced by budget director Josh Bolten.
"Andy Card has served me and our country in historic times," the president said in making his announcement from the White House, with Card and Bolten by his side.
Card served "on a terrible day when America was attacked, during economic recession and recovery, through storms of unprecedented destructive power, in peace and in war," Bush said.
Keeping closed borders Open.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two teams of government investigators using fake documents were able to enter the United States with enough radioactive sources to make two dirty bombs, according to a federal report made available Monday.
The investigators purchased a "small quantity" of radioactive materials from a commercial source while posing as employees of a fictitious company and brought the materials into the United States through checkpoints on the northern and southern borders, according to a Government Accountability Office report prepared for Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican.
New for Spring 06: Guaranteed discord
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A Senate committee on Monday approved what its chairman called "comprehensive" immigration legislation, including a temporary guest-worker program.
The Judiciary Committee had rushed to finish the election-year legislation, with the full Senate scheduled to begin debate Tuesday.
Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, told the Senate after the panel vote that he expected "considerable controversy when the bill reaches the Senate floor."
Picked Papers
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government is making public a huge trove of documents seized during the invasion of Iraq, posting them on the Internet in a step that is at once a nod to the Web’s power and an admission that U.S. intelligence resources are overloaded.
Republican leaders in Congress pushed for the release, which was first proposed by conservative commentators and bloggers hoping to find evidence about the fate of Iraq’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs, or possible links to terror groups.
Bush comments bite Bush in Bush’s ass.
Civil war:A civil war is a war in which the competing parties are segments of the same country or empire. Civil war is usually a high intensity stage in an unresolved political struggle for national control of state power. As in any war, the conflict may be over other matters such as religion, ethnicity, or distribution of wealth. Some civil wars are also categorized as revolutions when major societal restructuring is a possible outcome of the conflict.
According to President Bush, there is of course no civil war in Iraq…
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Iraq’s interim prime minister warned Monday that the rebels were trying to foment a sectarian war in the country, as thousands of mourners attended funerals in the Shiite holy cities of Najaf (search) and Karbala (search) a day after car bomb attacks killed 67 people.
LONDON, March 19, 2006
(CBS/AP) Iraq is in the middle of a civil war, Iraq’s former prime minister, Ayad Allawi, said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. aired on Sunday.
Allawi said there was no other way to describe the increasing violence across the country.
"It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more," Allawi told the BBC. "If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."
WASHINGTON, March 21 (Xinhua) — U.S. President George W. Bush flatly denied on Tuesday a civil war has broken out in Iraq, reaffirming his confidence of a ultimate U.S. victory in Iraq.
Speaking at a White House news conference aimed to confront doubts about his strategy in Iraq, Bush said, "we all recognized that there is violence, that there is sectarian violence. But the way I look at the situation is, the Iraqis looked and decided not to go into civil war."
In OTHER news. North Korea requests the same rights afforded to the US in the right to defensively strike first in order to protect itself. Sound familiar?
North Korea is entitled to launch a pre-emptive strike against the US rather than wait until the American military have finished with Iraq, the North’s foreign ministry told the Guardian yesterday.
Warning that the current nuclear crisis is worse than that in 1994, when the peninsula stood on the brink of oblivion, a ministry spokesman called on Britain to use its influence with Washington to avert war.
"The United States says that after Iraq, we are next", said the deputy director Ri Pyong-gap, "but we have our own countermeasures. Pre-emptive attacks are not the exclusive right of the US."
March 17, 2006
In his first major foreign policy review since 2002, President George W. Bush renewed his strike-first policy against terrorists and other U.S. enemies in a report Thursday.
"The president’s strategy affirms that the doctrine of preemption remains sound and must remain an integral part of our national security strategy," said Stephen Hadley, Bush’s national security adviser. "We do not rule out the use of force before attacks occur, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy’s attack."
And additionally:
Pakistan’s failure to secure US nuclear technology for civilian use has triggered the most difficult challenge for the two countries since the terrorist attacks on the US in 2001, Pakistani officials warned yesterday.
Amid growing criticism in Pakistan of the US agreement to supply civil nuclear technology to India, Pakistan’s ambassador to Washingtoncalled for the two south Asian countries to be treated equally.
"Instead of a country-specific deal on a subject as critical as nuclear technology, there should be a package for both India and Pakistan," said Jehangir Karamat, Pakistan’s former army chief, in Dawn, the country’s English-language newspaper.
Islamabad officials said Pakistan, which is the closest US ally in the war on terror, was pressing Washington for concessions similar to those offered to Delhi during this month’s visit to south Asia by President George W. Bush
Jeez. you’d think other nations had the same world rights as the US or something.
Stepping backwards is a type of progress too?
CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) — In the face of flagging support for the war, President Bush said Monday that though Americans might be dismayed by events in Iraq, he sees signs of progress.
"The situation on the ground remains tense," Bush told an audience at the City Club of Cleveland. "In the face of continued reports about killings and reprisals, I understand how some Americans have had their confidence shaken.
"Others look at the violence they see each night on their television screens, and they wonder how I can remain so optimistic about the prospects of success in Iraq. They wonder what I see that they don’t."
Gordon Parks Passes
NEW YORK (AP) — Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood’s first major black director with "The Learning Tree" and the hit "Shaft," died Tuesday, a family member said. He was 93.
Parks, who also wrote fiction and was an accomplished composer, died in New York, his nephew, Charles Parks, said in a telephone interview from Lawrence, Kansas.
"Nothing came easy," Parks wrote in his autobiography. "I was just born with a need to explore every tool shop of my mind, and with long searching and hard work. I became devoted to my restlessness."
And Black is White….
NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — The United States will send nuclear fuel and expertise to India under the terms of a pact reached on the last day of President Bush’s visit to New Delhi.
In return, India pledged to open up its 14 civilian nuclear reactors to international inspectors and keep power generation separate from its military program.
But India — which first tested its nuclear weapons nearly eight years ago — will keep eight sites for secret military purposes under the terms of the deal, reached after intense negotiation.
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