Ed Koch voices reasoned support for the President.
Why aren’t more Democrats doing the same?
It seems that those on the “far-left” in the Democratic Party are damaging the Democratic Party more than they truly understand, through their continuous, unrelenting, and unfounded attacks on the President. They are those that still have blood in their eyes over their perceived persecution of Bill Clinton, their perceived theft of victory in the 2000 Presidential election, and their embarrassing, humiliating losses during the 2002 elections. They are now so desperate for Republican blood that they go into an ugly feeding frenzy when they imagine even smelling it.
Ed Koch
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"Can we be sure that terrorism and weapons of mass destruction will join together?
"Let us say one thing. If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least, is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering.
"That is something I am confident history will forgive.
"But if our critics are wrong, if we are right, as I believe with every fibre of instinct and conviction I have that we are, and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in the face of this menace when we should have given leadership.
"That is something history will not forgive."
Tony Blair
Blair's Address to Congress
Members of Congress, I feel a most urgent sense of mission about today's world.
September 11 was not an isolated event, but a tragic prologue, Iraq another act, and many further struggles will be set upon this stage before it's over.
There never has been a time when the power of America was so necessary or so misunderstood, or when, except in the most general sense, a study of history provides so little instruction for our present day.
We were all reared on battles between great warriors, between great nations, between powerful forces and ideologies that dominated entire continents. And these were struggles for conquest, for land, or money, and the wars were fought by massed armies. And the leaders were openly acknowledged, the outcomes decisive.
Tony Blair
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Taking Liberties
AFTER PEARL HARBOR, President Roosevelt rounded up more than 100,000 Japanese residents and citizens and threw them in internment camps. Indeed, both liberal deities of the 20th century, FDR and Earl Warren, supported the internment of Japanese-Americans. In the '20s, responding to the bombing of eight government officials' homes, a Democrat-appointed attorney general arrested about 6,000 people. The raids were conducted by A. Mitchell Palmer, appointed by still-revered Democrat segregationist Woodrow Wilson, who won the 1916 election based on lies about intelligence and war plans.
Ann Coulter
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Liberal Democrats' Perverse Foreign Policy
Why? In terms of brutality, systematic repression, number of killings, relish for torture and sum total of human misery caused, Charles Taylor is a piker next to Saddam Hussein. That is not to say that Taylor is a better man. It is only to say that in his tiny corner of the world with no oil resources and no scientific infrastructure for developing instruments of mass murder, Taylor has neither the reach nor the power to wreak Hussein-class havoc. What is it that makes liberals such as Dean, preening their humanitarianism, so antiwar in Iraq and so pro-intervention in Liberia?
Krauthammer
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Red Planet never closer than now
If the Martians want to invade, now would be the time. During the next few months, the Red Planet is making its closest pass by Earth in 50,000 years.
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
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New Iraqi Council Named in Inaugural Meeting
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq took an important step on the road to democracy Sunday when the first post-Saddam Hussein (search) governing body held its inaugural meeting, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
The panel of 25 prominent Iraqis from diverse political and religious affiliations was named at the meeting. The council, designed to help fill Iraq's postwar power vacuum, will have real political muscle, with the power to name ministers and approve the 2004 budget, but final control of Iraq still rests with U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer (search).
Security was tight at the Baghdad convention center, near where the council meeting was taking place. Fighter jets flew over the city early Sunday, and helicopters circled the area. Bomb-sniffing dogs were on hand at the convention center, and scores of heavily armed U.S. soldiers kept watch.
Coalition officials handed out a list of the 25 council members, and a news conference was expected later in the day.
The panel was selected after more than two months of consultations that culminated in intense negotiations this week. Bremer was believed to have seen its quick establishment as critical to the success of the American mission in Iraq. People have clamored for say in the running of their country, and several U.S. delays and backtracking fueled a common perception that the Americans were here to colonize, rather than liberate, the country.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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