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This spring, the [Bush] administration significantly increased its pressure on Pakistan to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, his deputy, Ayman Al Zawahiri, or the Taliban's Mullah Mohammed Omar, all of whom are believed to be hiding in the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan... ...This public pressure would be appropriate, even laudable, had it not been accompanied by an unseemly private insistence that the Pakistanis deliver these high-value targets (HVTs) before Americans go to the polls in November.

This weekend, Aspen will play host to a slew of the nation’s top experts in the fields of terrorism, the environment, global climate change and the political climate. This may come as no surprise to most of you but the physical state of the world at this moment SUCKS. Global warming, famine, war, bad water, bad air, environmental destruction, children sick from pollution, breast cancer on the rise with no real solutions on the horizon, threats of terrorist attacks looming each day, corporate polluters and looters being given free reign to pollute as they please. In case you haven’t noticed,...

Okay, I've been lurking here for 2 years and finally read something today that made we want to write. First of all, I'm a life long Republican of the Conservative branch. And Bush blew it on the WOT. Sept. 12th he should of declared war on Iran and Pakistan, forget about Iraq. Iran and Pakistan are the ones that came to our country and MURDERED 3,000 of us. Not Iraq, Not North Korea, Not Syria. WE ARE FIGHTING THIS WAR BECAUSE 3,000 AMERICANS WERE SLAUGHTERED ON AMERICAN SOIL. Has everyone forgotten that??? If Bush had went full force into Iran...