As Wall Street Journal columnist and presidential hagiographer Peggy Noonan has put it, "Bush brings character to the table." That's the claim. Here's the record over the past eight months.

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Napoleon left instructions that he was not to be awakened if the news from the front were good; with good news there is no hurry. But if the news were bad, he said, "rouse me instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost."

the soldiers thought democracy was worth fighting for, even dying for. The least we can do is to help make democracy worthy of them.

Eyewitnesses Testify that US Troops Were Complicit in the Massacre of up to 3,000 Taliban Prisoners During the Afghan War. evidence gathered indicates that the responsibility for the war crimes in Afghanistan goes “as high as [US Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld’s office.”

His belief was that the attacks in Saudi Arabia and Morocco were not a consequence of the US war in Iraq because of the time needed to organise the sophisticated planning and logistics for the coordinated bombings operations.
The implication of such a conclusion were "daunting" as it suggests al-Qaeda and its affiliates already had the capacity to develop and stage such attacks with the effect of the US-led invasion of Iraq, the professor said.

Soldiers from Jessica's El Paso, Texas-based 507th Maintenance Company have been warned not to talk. A soldier in that unit said, "It's almost 'say a word and you'll be shot at dawn.'" Almost daily, her cover story changes from amnesia to partial amnesia to more recently: "She's blocked just the ambush event."

Attorney General John N. Mitchell once said of the Nixon administration in which he served, “Don’t pay any attention to what we say. Watch what we do.”
“A senior adviser to President Megawati Sukarnoputri said in an interview that the American campaign against terrorism helped Indonesia justify its stance in Aceh…"