Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
I'm generally not in the business of giving advice to Democrats, but if they do change their foreign policy message, I suggest forgetting boring nuances and just saying, "perfect security is impossible to achieve without utopia. There are tough choices to make and we have to make them. And oh yeah Bush plays each and everyone of you for idiots whenever he talks about defeating terrorism."
No, I don't think this would go over well but it is factually based and that should count for something.
"When President Bush and his advisers talk about the widening federal budget deficit, they usually place part of the blame on economic shocks ranging from the recession of 2001 to the terrorist attacks that year," Edmund L. Andrews writes in today's New York Times. "But a report released on Monday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that economic weakness would account for only 6 percent of a budget shortfall that could reach a record $500 billion this year."
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"Haitian ex-president Jean Bertrand Aristide arrived in Jamaica, provoking the ire of authorities in Haiti, who froze ties with the neighboring nation," AFP writes.
Haitian appointed Prime Minister Gerard Latortue announced Monday he temporarily suspended his country's membership in the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) and withdrew Haiti's ambassador from Jamaica, reports from Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince stated.
The announcement was issued after Haiti's former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide arrived in Jamaica from exile in the Central African Republic.
Latortue said he would reconsider Haiti's relations with CARICOM because the bloc had voiced support to Aristide's presidency when considering his ouster was clouded by unclear circumstances...
At a Monday press conference, Latortue indicated to "any partner in the world and in the Caribbean community that they can no longer take Haiti for a fool because we are a government that must be taken into account."
"Nope, there was no harm to Haiti's democracy done by Aristide's resignation," Uncle Sam told reporters.