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WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2007 – Vice President Richard B. Cheney today emphasized the importance of victory in Iraq and urged continued support for the men and women in uniform. Speaking to about 300 people in Indianapolis at the Indiana War Memorial before the opening of an American Legion conference, the vice president urged vigilance in standing up to terrorists who seek to destroy all that America and the rest of the free world stand for. “Through acts of stealth and murder and spectacular violence, they intend to frighten us and break our will (and) to hit us again and...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, June 5, 2007 – Although acknowledging he’d like to see faster progress in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today refused to point fingers at the Iraqi army and said that force is standing up to challenges confronting it. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates meets with Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, June 5. Photo by Cherie A. Thurlby  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “We would certainly be happy if there was faster progress on the political front in terms of reunification,” Gates said in response to a question during a joint news conference with...

WASHINGTON, June 22, 2006 – Iranian support for insurgents in Iraq has become a major factor in a "quite complex" security environment, the commander of ground forces in Iraq told Pentagon reporters today. Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., commander of Multinational Force Iraq, pointed to Iranian support for Shiia insurgents as a problem in what he said has become a constantly changing security environment. The environment hasn't necessarily worsened, but has increased in complexity since Iraq's December elections and the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra in February, he said. "We are quite confident that the Iranians, through...

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, the US Secretary of State, delivered a blunt message to America’s closest ally in the Arab world yesterday, when she told Egypt it had to hold free and fair elections and stop intimidating pro-democracy activists. In an important policy speech setting out the Bush Administration’s vision for the region, Dr Rice told an audience at the American University in Cairo that Washington would no longer tolerate oppression in the name of stability. “For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved...

I witnessed the dead of Belsen: we must always confront tyranny By James Molyneaux (Filed: 27/01/2004) My first encounter with Belsen was the sight of dead bodies hanging from the electric fences. These victims had thrown themselves on the fences to end their own unimaginable suffering. The camp authorities had left them where they died. It was May 1945. The Allied and Russian armies were battling to link up in central Germany; Field Marshal Montgomery led his 21st Army Group to Lüneburg, with our RAF Regiment Wing in close support. On arrival at Tactical Headquarters, we had been briefed on...

<p>President Bush's new proposal on immigration has at least one virtue. It represents an effort to confront - and begin an open discussion about - an immigration system that is clearly not working. Whether you think immigration should be more restricted or less restricted, the fact that 8 million to 12 million people are in this country illegally suggests strongly that the current system is broken.</p>