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WASHINGTON - President Bush visited the war wounded Thursday at a local military hospital and said those who tend to soldiers' injuries are "helping to protect America" just as much as troops on the battlefield. "All of you here today are engaged in a great cause, a noble cause, an important cause for our country, and for freedom and peace," Bush told some 200 cheering doctors, nurses and other staff of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. "By your good work, you're helping to protect America." Before speaking to the hospital staff, Bush met privately with a few dozen...

Sorry for the vanity but today at work some liberals were trashing Bush over Iraq- one was touting Ted Kennedy claiming that the only reason we're in Iraq is because Saddam tried to kill Dubya's father. That's when I lost it and said that I was sick and tired of the liberal lies about the war and that there hasn't been another attack in this country since we went into Afghanistan. I was then informed that another attack is imminent. The conversation got around to the libs saying that we don't have any support from the world and we should...

NEW YORK - The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Friday to tell Israel to drop its decision to "remove" Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, whom it described as the main obstacle to Middle East peacemaking. The 191-nation assembly, where Washington has no veto, voted 133-4, with 15 abstentions, in an emergency session to adopt a resolution demanding that Israel not carry out the policy to oust the Palestinian leader. The United States and Israel voted "No," joined by the Marshall Islands and Micronesia. Australia, Canada, Kenya and Colombia were among those abstaining. EU members unanimously swung in line behind...

Pacific islanders angry over Washington Post’s sarcasm WASHINGTON: Irate Northern Pacific island states on Thursday fiercely rebutted media sarcasm whipped up by their role in the US-led war on Iraq, arguing they offered the “coalition of the willing” far more than coconuts, tapioca and scuba diving. Nursing wounded pride, several governments complained that scoffing at their presence in President George W. Bush's much lampooned coalition was an insult to Pacific islanders who put their lives on the line alongside US troops in Iraq. Palau, the Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands and Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean are among nearly 50 nations...