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Will ‘08 Democrats follow Murtha, vote to cut troop funds?

As dangerous as President Bush’s record on Iraq may be to Republican presidential candidates in 2008, Democrats also are risking ..


Straightforwardness was Ford’s virtue – and his limitation

In an Oval Office interview in 1976, I asked President Gerald Ford about charges made to me and many others ..


Needed: A governor to launch radical change in schools

What the Iraq Study Group said about the Iraq War situation -- "grim and deteriorating" -- has been echoed ..


Baker-Hamilton panel can solve domestic issues, not win wars

Now that the graybeards on the Baker-Hamilton commission have proposed consensus solutions for the Iraq war, they should be kept ..


Partisan fights likely over health care in ‘07

Partisan wrangling over health care could be as raucous in the new Congress as the sparring over Iraq, but in ..


U.S. weakness leads assassins, terrorists, demagogues to rise

All over the world, scoundrels are ascendant, rising on a tide of American weakness. It makes for a perilous future. President ..


Weakened Bush must wage fight for free trade

Having failed to convince fellow Republicans of the merits of comprehensive immigration reform, President Bush now faces the even more ..


U.S. should add troops to prevent disaster in Iraq

To salvage stability from what looks like inevitable chaos in Iraq, the United States needs a new strategy that produces ..


Message of 2006: Moderates fed up with polarization

The 2006 election results were a rebuke not just to President Bush and Congressional Republicans, but to radio talk-show hosts ..


Vietnam-like defeat in Iraq will have far worse consequences

The political cartoon on my office wall shows Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a frazzled father trying to drive ..


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