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A Fuzzy StrategeryAgree to DisagreeBy Rob FishmanNov 15 2006Yesterday, Sun Columnist Billy McMorris argued that, as students, we should take time away from partying and sleeping, and express our gratitude to the nearly 3,000 soldiers who have died so far in Iraq. Billy does what George Bush does: instead of defending the Iraq War, he points to the sacrifices of our soldiers. It’s a crafty strategy of misdirection, to channel our grief for dead soldiers into support for the ongoing war in Iraq.There was a time when such sacrifices might have been sensible. Maybe at first, we could justify soldiers’...

Egypt is astonished at Israel's tribute to nine Egyptian Jews recruited by the Jewish state to carry out "terrorist operations" in Cairo and Alexandria in the 1950s, the foreign minister said. Israeli President Moshe Katsav last week honored the Egyptian Jews recruited by Israel as agents to ruin Cairo's rapprochement with the United States and Britain by firebombing sites frequented by foreigners the cities. Israel hoped the attacks, which caused no casualties, would be blamed on local insurgents. But the young Zionist bombers were caught and confessed at public trials. Two were hanged and the rest served jail terms and...

University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill speaks during a public lecture entitled 'Speaking Truth to Power: Academic Freedom in the Age of Terror,' at the University of Hawaii campus in Honolulu, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2005. Churchill, criticized for his comments likening some Sept. 11 victims to Nazis, defended his position before an overflow crowd Tuesday night at the University of Hawaii, saying the attack on the World Trade Center was inevitable given U.S. international and economic policies. (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman)

<p>Howard Dean (news - web sites) is on the verge of an astonishing comeback. Can he replicate that feat for his demoralized party?</p> <p>Dean, the former Vermont governor and presidential candidate, is the frontrunner to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) when its 447 members cast their votes Feb. 12. As of Thursday, Dean had public commitments from 213 members. He needs a simple majority to win.</p>