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COLUMNS By Arvind Ramesh From
the eyes of the average American, who gets their news from CNN and Fox, the
only problems in the world seem to happen in Iraq, where soldiers face the
tangibility of death daily, the place where the bad guy Saddam ruled his
country through torture and with an iron fist. Everything else is fine, right? We’ve freed the Shiites and the Kurds from
gassing, and now everything in the world is fine and we can go back to being
in our small bubble. It’s a shame
stuff happens other places…(
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Kerry vs. Bush, We Don’t
Have Anyone Better? May 13, 2004 By Tim Brass Most American’s don’t like Bush, and don’t want him to become President
for another term. This is apparent
from his dwindling approval rating, which continues to shrink in the face of
sexual abuse and torture charges by the military in Iraq. However, many moderates, and few people
that would consider themselves or are considered “right wing” see little
choice…(
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Getting Rid of Rumsfeld
Doesn’t Really Solve the Problem By Joshua Robin This week everyone
has been clamoring for the resignation or the firing of Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld. This criticism is
pretty understandable, being that he is the Defense Secretary he is
responsible for the actions of the United States arm forces. In doing I would say people want to both
hold people responsible and, “deal with the problem.” Getting rid of Rumsfeld would in no way
deal with the problem…(
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