Shameful

However, this will only last if the Palestinians refrain from violence. If attacks on Israelis resume, so will the old American position...By training she is a Soviet specialist and one thing she and the president share is a belief that totalitarianism can be overthrown by the "power of the people". The Bush team is now applying that philosophy to the Middle East. Those who play ball will be favoured. The Palestinians are finding that out.
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Second, the elections in Iraq have had a profound effect. Le Monde, the left-leaning newspaper of France's intelligentsia, headlined Tuesday: "Franco-American Rapprochement After Iraq Elections." My dictionary says a rapprochement is "an agreement between two opposing groups."
http://www.techcentralstation.com/021005D.html

Voting is underway for Saudi men only in the first phase of the country's first-ever municipal election.
http://www.voanews.com/...voa7.cfm

"It's kind of a shame," he told the Associated Press news agency. "The reason we're having to do this is that we never reached out to those who have the ability and capacity to do this to begin with," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/...1.stm

Bush, by refusing to seek even a temporary solution to the minimum tax's impact in 2006, will pressure Congress to either make fundamental changes to the tax code or act to protect those 14 million people, about 11 percent of the tax-filing public, from a higher tax bill, according to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan research group.
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