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(Thursday, February 12th) Communication Minister of Iran Ali Unesi rejected threats of the American President George Bush pertaining to the Islamic Republic. "We do not doubt American President's stupidity. However, we do not think that the US will invade Iran," declared Unesi. According to him, American threats are nothing but an expression of conservative and aggressive politics. "Obviously, Bush has already learned a lesson after attacking Afghanistan and Iraq. Americans failed miserably in both cases," said the Iranian Minister. He also proclaimed that "Washington does not have guts to invade Iran." "A recent celebration of the anniversary of Islamic revolution...

Beyond making some amiably assorted stabs at speaking Spanish, the Democratic presidential candidates were united in their first major debate on at least one thing, resolutely targeting President Bush for his foundering postwar policy in Iraq. The clownish intramural sideshows that usually haunt the Democratic Party on the early primary circuit were missing in Albuquerque. But those Americans bothering to tune in on Thursday night were also offered an early look at how the Democrats disagree. While they competed to come up with the most dismissive description of Mr. Bush's foreign policy (Richard Gephardt may have won with "miserable failure"),...

Watching Ann Coulter promote her new book on television is like driving by a bad car wreck. It's horrible and ghastly, but, somehow, you can't help but look. That's probably why I've been stopping periodically along the channel-flipping superhighway to hear what this supposedly serious political analyst has to say (not, of course, because she's blond). I even sat and suffered through the sorry spectacle of Coulter being interviewed by Bill O'Reilly, both striving with some success to sound slightly sensible. Coulter makes terribly tasteless, hateful and provocative comments about her political adversaries, then, never changing her doe-eyed, slyly smiling...