In its earliest incarnations, hollingers advisory board included Mr. Kissinger, Mr. Perle and Mr. Brzezinski, as well as Paul A. Volcker, the former head of the Federal Reserve; Chaim Herzog, the former president of Israel, who died in 1997; and Lady Thatcher, Mr. Siklos wrote.

safire: "The Republican Party, in control of all three branches of government and most of the statehouses, fat and sassy because the economy is rising and the war is being won. "

Then in May, a case of mad cow disease appeared in Canada, and he quickly sought a meeting with Ann M. Veneman, the secretary of agriculture. He was rebuffed, he said in an interview yesterday, until he ran into Karl Rove, senior adviser to President Bush.mred - ah ha - k.roves fingerprints! the artricle doesnt elaborate at all about his role.

I tell you what. Let President Bush declare we will absolutely never ever use WMDs against anyone who invades Iraq or attacks American troops there, even if they use WMDs to start things.
Sound ludicrous? Well, that is what we were demanding Saddam do, somehow survive living wedged between Iran and Syria without having any WMDs as a possible deterrent.

"I think a weakened, fragmented, chaotic Iraq, which could happen if this isn't done carefully, is more dangerous in the long run than a contained Saddam is now," zinni told reporters in 1998. "I don't think these questions have been thought through or answered."

Cheney's certitude bewildered Zinni. As chief of the Central Command, Zinni had been immersed in U.S. intelligence about Iraq. He was all too familiar with the intelligence analysts' doubts about Iraq's programs to acquire weapons of mass destruction, or WMD. "In my time at Centcom, I watched the intelligence, and never — not once — did it say, 'He has WMD.' "

In 1999, 1,350 wiretaps were authorized by state and Federal courts. Of these, 978 (72.4%) were for drug-related investigations, 139 (10.3%) were for racketeering, 60 (4.4%) were for gambling, 62 (4.6%) were for homicide or assault, and only 7 (approximately 0.5%) were for kidnapping.

Lee was held in solitary confinement for nine months before the government's case collapsed and 58 of the 59 charges against him were dropped. The conservative Reagan-appointed judge in the case said in freeing Lee, "I sincerely apologize to you, Dr. Lee, for the unfair manner in which you were held in custody by the executive branch."

In the end, in a plea bargain forced by prosecutors threatening Lee with life in prison, the scientist admitted to one count of mishandling government data. The data had not even been classified as secret when Lee mishandled it. But no matter, his reputation and career had been destroyed, leaving U.S. District Judge James Parker to conclude that the government's treatment of Lee "embarrassed our entire nation and each of us who is a citizen of it."

When Robert Dreyfuss of the American Prospect asked an unspecified Bush neocon "strategist" how best to deal with the resistance in Iraq, the response he received was chilling, "It's time for 'no more Mr. Nice Guy.' All those people shouting, 'Down with America!' and dancing in the street when Americans are attacked? We have to kill them."

Dramatic videotape from the city of Ramadi 75 miles west of Baghdad showed unarmed supporters of Saddam Hussein being gunned down in semi-darkness as they fled from Americans troops. Eleven of the 18 dead were killed by the Americans in Samarra to the north of Baghdad.

Thus, the Bush men have raised everyone’s expectations, but are prepared to satisfy none of them. It is as if, as thousands of troops scoured the countryside all these months searching for Saddam, there was no plan for what to do when they caught him. Karl Rove’s domestic policy brain may not know it, but his colleagues have stumbled into another crisis in the making.

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star Don Marie signs an autograph for an unidentified U.S. soldier after a wrestling performance by wrestlers who flew to Iraq

"The only big city near this route is Las Vegas, which they would consider a nice, attractive target," the Post quoted an unidentified government official as saying.