Topic: POLITIK - on March 16, 2003 at 11:49:09 PM CET
Fire Paul Wolfowitz
Memo To: Don Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense From: Jude Wanniski Re: The Monkeys on your Back
In case you have not noticed, Don, your deputy at the Pentagon, Paul Wolfowitz, has promoted himself and is now the Defense Secretary, and you are his deputy. We still see you quoted here and there, but Paul has already wrested policymaking from your hands and is making it himself. It is almost as if you have become his press secretary. He was bored with Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden long before the strikes began Sunday, as he is maniacally determined to cut to the chase, “finishing the war against Saddam Hussein,” as his many followers in the pundit community put it.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 16, 2003 at 11:46:14 PM CET
'Imperial spirit' inspires Hawks on Iraq and Paul Wolfowitz
"Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords."
So reads a bronze plaque that sits on Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld’s massive desk in his office across the Potomac River from here. It encapsulates much of the spirit that animates the hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush, and their supporters. The quotation is by former President Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Bush’s favorite president, who led the charge on San Juan Hill in Cuba in the supposedly decisive battle of the 1898 Spanish-American War that, with the defeat of the Spanish Navy in Manila Bay half a world away, established the United States as an imperial power with global reach.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 16, 2003 at 8:00:08 PM CET
Bush Urges Nations to Back U.S. on Iraq
President Bush met with allied leaders in an Atlantic island summit on Sunday and said "tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world" in the effort to disarm Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
He urged other nations to support "the immediate and unconditional disarmament" of the Iraqi leader.
"Iraq's liberation would be the beginning, not the end of our commitment to the Iraqi people," the president said at a news conference with the leaders of Great Britain, Spain and Portugal by his side.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 16, 2003 at 11:45:40 AM CET
Liechtenstein votes on prince
The people of Liechtenstein go to the polls on Sunday to vote on whether or not to make their prince an absolute monarch again. The 160 square kilometre country (62 square mile) is the sixth smallest in the world but it still has a thriving royal family who live in the capital city, Vaduz.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 14, 2003 at 7:09:14 PM CET
Litauens Präsident wegen Klopapierheilerin kritisiert
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Litauens Präsident Rolandas Paksas ist wegen seiner Kontakte zu einer angeblichen Wunderheilerin in die Kritik der Medien geraten. Lena Lolisvili behauptet, Kranke heilen zu können, indem sie sie mit Toilettenpapier umwickelt.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 14, 2003 at 1:27:36 PM CET
Media stink over Lithuania toilet-paper "Rasputin"
Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas has flown into a media storm over his faith in a mystic who wraps people in toilet paper to cure their ills.
Paksas' claims of being a "believer" in mystic Lena Lolisvili has sparked uproar in the Catholic former Soviet country, which is sensitive about its image in the outside world after being invited to join the European Union and NATO in 2004.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 13, 2003 at 1:34:31 PM CET
House cafeterias change names for 'french' fries and 'french' toast
The cafeteria menus in the three House office buildings changed the name of "french fries" to "freedom fries," in a culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over the country's refusal to support the U.S. position on Iraq.
Ditto for "french toast," which will be known as "freedom toast."
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 13, 2003 at 1:32:13 PM CET
Fritten heißen ab sofort "Freedom Fries"
Was zunächst wie ein Protest von Wirrköpfen gegen Frankreichs Irak-Politik aussah, ist in den USA jetzt amtlich: Das US-Repräsentantenhaus hat offiziell beschlossen, die bisher als "French Fries" bekannten Pommes frites in "Freedom Fries" umzubenennen.
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Topic: - on March 12, 2003 at 12:26:26 AM CET
Donald shows his working brain spectrum
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Topic: - on February 24, 2003 at 2:27:46 PM CET
Clinton: Bono Succeeded Where I Failed
Bill Clinton thinks Bono is a leader "we should follow in the new millennium."
The former president praised the lead singer of U2 Friday at a celebrity-packed reception honoring Bono's charitable work, most notably his efforts at promoting awareness of the AIDS epidemic and famine in Africa.
Clinton credited the rock star with helping close partisan gaps and getting Congress to pass a bill to provide debt relief for Africa.
"He did something I couldn't do: He convinced Jesse Helms (former Republican senator from North Carolina) to be for it," Clinton said, adding: "I love this man because he has a mind and a heart."
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Topic: - on February 15, 2003 at 10:50:09 PM CET
Mayor's passport misery
The Mayor of Shrewsbury, who has lived in Britain for more than 70 years, has been refused a British passport.
Councillor George Richey, who served for 27 years in the British Army, applied for a passport as he hoped to take part in a twinning trip to Zutphen in Holland in April.
But the Passport Office has told the 71-year-old that he is not a British national as he was born in Mauritius - even though his father held a British passport.
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Topic: - on February 10, 2003 at 1:14:28 PM CET
Ashamed that Rumsfeld is one of the family
The Rumsfelds of Weyhe-Sudweyhe, a suburb of Bremen, were once proud of their long-lost cousin, America's Secretary of Defence. No longer.
Like many Germans, they are appalled by Donald Rumsfeld's hawkish attitude to war in Iraq. Some 18,000 demonstrators marched through Munich on Saturday to protest at his presence at an international security conference - chanting slogans such as "No room for Rumsfeld!"
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