Israel Planning for War With Iran & Syria

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Monday September 04, 2006 · 12:48 PM PDT

2006/09/04 · 12:48

From the Sept. 3 Sunday Times:

THREATENED by a potentially nuclear-armed Tehran, Israel is preparing for a possible war with both Iran and Syria, according to Israeli political and military sources.
The conflict with Hezbollah has led to a strategic rethink in Israel. A key conclusion is that too much attention has been paid to Palestinian militants in Gaza and the West Bank instead of the two biggest state sponsors of terrorism in the region, who pose a far greater danger to Israel's existence, defence insiders say.

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Saturday September 02, 2006 · 8:33 PM PDT

2006/09/02 · 20:33

In the wake of MoveOn.org's non-endorsement of Hillary Clinton in their recent online primary pitting Clinton against challenger John Tasini , the UK Sunday Times' Sarah Baxter posits a possible Hillary pullout from the '08 race:

FRIENDS of Hillary Clinton have been whispering the unthinkable. Despite her status as the runaway frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president, some of her closest advisers say she might opt out of the White House race and seek to lead her party in the Senate...
"I would not be surprised if she were to decide that the best contribution she can make to her country is to forget about being president and become a consensus-maker in the Senate," said a leading Democratic party insider. "She believes there is no trust between the two political sides and that we can't function as a democracy without it."

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Friday September 01, 2006 · 8:50 AM PDT

2006/09/01 · 08:50

The Big Daddy Party's loss of the Protector Meme is confirmed by the establishment icon:

(WSJ)--In both national elections since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President Bush and congressional Republicans successfully played the national-security card to win big victories against the odds. Now, with their party's control of Congress at stake, Republicans are betting on the issue again. But it may not be the trump card it used to be.
The public's patience has frayed as the Iraq war grows bloodier in its fourth year, eroding confidence in Mr. Bush's stewardship of national security. Mismanagement of the response to Hurricane Katrina contributed. Democrats, having ceded the security issue to Republicans in the past, now are on the offensive. They're attacking the administration's competence at home and abroad and fielding candidates with military experience.

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Thursday August 31, 2006 · 8:41 AM PDT

2006/08/31 · 08:41

California's legislature has passed a bill that may spur a national movement to elect the President by--gasp!--popular vote.

Lawmakers sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a bill Wednesday that would make California the first state to jump aboard a national movement to elect the president by popular vote.
Under the legislation, California would grant its electoral votes to the nominee who gets the most votes nationwide -- not the most votes in California. Get enough other states to do the same, backers of the bill say, and soon presidential candidates will have to campaign across the nation, not just in a few key "battleground" states such as Ohio and Michigan that can sway the Electoral College vote.

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Tuesday August 29, 2006 · 8:31 AM PDT

2006/08/29 · 08:31

Does Torquemada Cheney know something we don't? The Senior Prince of Darkness weighs in again on that pesky court ruling upholding constitutional law:

Vice President Dick Cheney predicted Monday that a recent federal court ruling finding a warrantless surveillance program unconstitutional will be overturned on appeal..."It's hard to think of any category of information that would be more important to the safety and security of the United States...The recent ruling by a federal judge ordering an end to this program is just dead wrong. We are confident it will be reversed on appeal.

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Wednesday August 09, 2006 · 2:17 PM PDT

2006/08/09 · 14:17

In a keynote address at the American Bar Association's annual meeting in Hawaii, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy gave a muted warning to members assembled there:

"We are at another turning point in the history of the law," Kennedy remarked. Discussing the importance of an independent judiciary, Kennedy added, "I sense a slight foreboding, I sense that we are not making the case as well as we ought."

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Sunday July 09, 2006 · 12:21 PM PDT

2006/07/09 · 12:21

At the recent Aspen Ideas Festival, Arianna Huffington cornered Colin Powell, who was there as part of a discussion panel entitled "Order, Law, and Governance in the 21st Century". Not one to beat around the bush, Huffington asked Powell the question foremost in the minds of many: Is the U.S. ever going to get out of Iraq? Read More

'Missing' votes may change Mexican election results

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Wednesday July 05, 2006 · 10:53 AM PDT

2006/07/05 · 10:53

Oops.

The margin between the two leading candidates for president narrowed suddenly Tuesday after election authorities revealed that about 2.5 million votes had been missing from earlier counts. The announcement meant the race between leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and conservative Felipe Calderon was still too close to call.

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Monday July 03, 2006 · 2:19 PM PDT

2006/07/03 · 14:19

The National Journal posts this story today:

President Bush told the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case that he directed Vice President Dick Cheney to personally lead an effort to counter allegations made by former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV that his administration had misrepresented intelligence information to make the case to go to war with Iraq, according to people familiar with the president's statement.

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Wednesday June 21, 2006 · 10:12 PM PDT

2006/06/21 · 22:12

In the face of mounting lawsuits against Verizon, BellSouth, and At&T claiming those companies illegally handed over private phone records to the U.S. government, guess who the telcom giants may soon find their defense boosted by: the U.S. government itself.

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Wednesday May 03, 2006 · 9:06 PM PDT

2006/05/03 · 21:06

The U.S. State Department's annual report on global terrorism, including nations and groups that sponsor it, has been released. Conspicuous by its absence is the infamous group that didn't make this year's terrorist list: the Taliban. Read More

"Russia has left the Western orbit. "

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Friday April 28, 2006 · 9:20 AM PDT

2006/04/28 · 09:20

The Guardian's Tom Parfitt offers this take on the growing chill in Russian-American relations--

Moscow could be on the verge of clinching an arms deal with Syria or Iran that would send the US and Israel into pop-eyed rage.

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