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Dean: Brutal Ruler Doesn't Justify Force BY KATE McCANN Associated Press Writer November 7, 2003, 4:34 PM EST MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean said Friday that the use of U.S. military force is not warranted simply because a nation is ruled by a despot. The front-runner said he supported the war to oust the Taliban in Afghanistan, and backed President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia and Kosovo during the 1990s because force is sometimes necessary to stop genocide. That was not the case in Iraq, said Dean, a staunch opponent of the war. "I do...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- If you're a Democrat, you might just want to stay in bed for a few days. To pass the time while your party faces possibly one of its worst weeks this year, you can curl up with your new copy of "Like No Other Time," Tom Daschle's nostalgic memoir, due out Tuesday, of a happier time known as the 107th Congress.</p>

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Roses are red Violets are blue Oh my, lump in the bed How I've missed you. Roses are redder Bluer am I Seeing you kissed by that charming French guy. The dogs and the cat, they missed you too Barney's still mad you dropped him, he ate your shoe The distance, my dear, has been such a barrier Next time you want an adventure, just land on a carrier.

The remains of more than a thousand people who died in the attack on the World Trade Center will be preserved in a memorial space built at ground zero, in the hope that science will advance to the point that they can be identified, according to city and state officials. Many relatives of victims killed in the attack have asked that unidentified remains be interred at the former World Trade Center site. The challenge was to accommodate that wish in a way that did not complicate the project design but did preserve the remains for future scientific study. Investigators have...

GOP Pressures Schwarzenegger's Rivals to Quit Republican leaders are urging businessman Bill Simon, state Sen. Tom McClintock and former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth to quit the race to replace Gov. Gray Davis and clear the way for Arnold Schwarzenegger, the San Francisco Chronicle reported today. Sean Walsh, a spokesman for the movie star, acknowledged the effort but said Schwarzenegger's campaign was not involved. "There are numerous politicians, activists and business leaders who believe Arnold is what we need to fix California's problems," Walsh said. "They have informed us that they've tried to convince the others to leave." Duf Sundheim, the...

NDP in hot water over 'Shrub' memo Canadian Press Wednesday, July 30, 2003 Saskatchewan's plan to petition the United States to reopen borders to Canadian beef stumbled out of the gate Wednesday when an internal government document flippantly referred to U.S. President George W. Bush as "Shrub." "Re: Petition to President Shrub," is the title of the memo, dated Tuesday, and sent to NDP legislature members and candidates by party researcher Ted Bowen. The memo was sent to media outlets by mistake. "Shrub is Molly Ivins' dismissive nickname for President Bush," reads the P.S. Shrub: The Short But Happy Political...

Roh Vents as Problems Pile Up by President Roh Moo-hyun, after saying he was "uneasy" and "depressed" in an interview with the Munhwa Ilbo last month, said Wednesday at an official appearance that he was beginning to think he would be better off not being the president. “Recently, the problems I’ve been facing are too difficult,” said President Roh as he met at Cheong Wa Dae with the organizers of last weekend's ceremony in Gwangju to mark the anniversary of the May 18 revolt - the organizers had come to express their apologies for the disturbance that marred the event....

Bush Says No to Roh's Proposal for Summit at Crawford Ranch By Ryu Jin Staff Reporter With President Roh Moo-hyun's maiden trip to the U.S. just days away, there was a small dispute in the ruling party's morning meeting yesterday over the treatment Roh would receive from the U.S. government. In the supreme council meeting of the Millennium Democratic Party (MDP), Cho Soon-sung, head of the party's special committee on the North Korean nuclear problem, took issue with the venue of the summit meeting between Roh and U.S. President George W. Bush. ``What I'm concerned about is that President Roh...

Republicans could immediately break the current filibusters against two of President Bush's judicial nominees with a rarely used parliamentary procedure that would confirm them through a simple majority vote, according to a plan under consideration by Senate Republicans.

I'm a Texan and I'm so teed off at the Saddam Chicks and that fat hefer they have for a lead singer. I would like to suggest that we all chip in and buy a billboard in their hometown of Lubbock, TX to say the following: Just so y'all know, we Texans are ashamed that the Saddam Chicks, aka the Dixie Chickens, are from Texas. I'll start with a $100 donation to the Blitz the Ditzy Chicks Billboard fund.

I'm a Texan and I'm so teed off at the Saddam Chicks and that fat hefer they have for a lead singer. I would like to suggest that we all chip in and buy a billboard in their hometown of Lubbock, TX to say the following: Just so y'all know, we Texans are ashamed that the Saddam Chicks, aka the Dixie Chickens, are from Texas. I'll start with a $100 donation to the Blitz the Ditzy Chicks Billboard fund.

<p>The USS Cowpens, a guided missile cruiser, steams in the Persian Gulf as it protects the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk.</p> <p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy may order about a dozen ships equipped with surface-to-surface missiles from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea as part of preparations for a possible war with Iraq, U.S. military sources said Thursday.</p>

Brits Backing Out? March 11, 2003 (CBS/AP) "What the president has said is that there is room for a little more diplomacy, but not a lot of time to do it." White House spokesman Ari Fleischer President Bush has been working the phones ahead of a U.N. vote expected this week. (AP) French Foreign Minister de Villepin is traveling through Africa in hopes of swinging the votes of Angola, Cameroon and Guinea to the anti-war side. (AP) Read: • Bush Press Conference Text • Transcript of Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein Interview • U.S.-British 2nd Resolution Text • French-German-Russian U.N. Memorandum Text...

Israeli monitor intercepts order: War starting on March 18 SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Tuesday, March 11, 2003 TEL AVIV — The U.S. military has been ordered to launch a war against Iraq on March 18, an Israeli official said in a televised report. Israeli government monitor, Michael Gurdus, reported on late Tuesday that the order was relayed by U.S. Central Command to all American forces in the Persian Gulf. Gurdus told Israel's Channel 2 television that he heard the order being relayed to U.S. fighter-jet pilots and others over U.S. military radio communications he intercepted. Gurdus is regarded as the...

FRANCE ONLY LEADS WORLD IN ARROGANCE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eiffel Tower - Photo by: AP FRIG the frogs. Screw-ay les Francais. Up the French. France, a countrylet forever famous for immortal boons to civilization like shoemaker Christian Leboutin, dressmaker Christian LaCroix, stylemaker Christian Dior, is dissing the United States? Mes enfants, vous can take votre French toast and shove it up your cafe au lait. Look, I know today's big topics are: Our snow job, biggest blinking blizzard since that sprinkle of '88 ... our TV full of Michael Jackson who is also full of it and sticks his runt of a...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Tiger Woods announced on his website Sunday that he will not play in next week's Dubai Desert Classic due to the threat of an impending war in nearby Iraq.

Okay, sorry for the rant, but I'm just about mad as hell right now. I've had it up to my eyeballs with these so-called celebrities who think that they're experts on geo-political and foreign affairs. Mike Farrell, Sheryl Crow, Martin Sheen, etc., can all go to hell as far as I'm concerned. And now, my niece just showed me the MTV Germany site, and guess what little ant-brained prick is on it under the "war is not the answer" banner?!? Her former favorite singer Justin Timberlake from that boyband N'SYNC. That prick doesn't have even have the guts to take...