From American Progress:
Think Fast
“I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional,” said neoconservative Richard Perle, a leading proponent for the war in Iraq. “And if it can’t get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.” But President Bush, Perle emphasized, is not to blame.
The U.S. Air Force has requested a “staggering $50 billion in emergency funding for fiscal 2007" -- an amount equal to nearly half its annual budget -- in part to help cover costs for transporting the “growing numbers of U.S. soldiers being killed and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Virginia police are investigating and trying to determine the names of the staffers for Sen. George Allen (R-VA) who physically accosted blogger Mike Stark yesterday at a campaign event.
P. W. Botha, “the South African leader who struggled vainly to preserve apartheid rule in a tide of domestic racial violence and global condemnation,” died yesterday at age 90. Botha was in power when conservatives, including Vice President Cheney, voted to block apartheid sanctions.
North Korea announced it will return to the six-nation nuclear disarmament talks. David Straub, a former State Department official, said that unless both the U.S. and North Korea “bring significantly different approaches to the talks, the talks will again amount to nothing.” He added, “Indeed, both will almost certainly take even tougher lines.”
After three years, $2.3 billion in government contracts, and 52 company contractors killed, Bechtel Corp. is leaving Iraq. The contracting giant has been criticized for shoddy work, cost overruns, and missed deadlines. “Did Iraq come out the way you hoped it would?” asked Cliff Mumm, Bechtel’s president for infrastructure work. “I would say, emphatically, no.”
The wife of Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY) “called police last December to complain her husband was ‘knocking her around‘ during a late-night argument at the couple’s home.” Sweeney called the report “campaign propaganda,” but did not deny that police were called to his house.
63 percent: Number of Americans who disapprove of President Bush’s handling of the Iraq war, up from 61 percent in June, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll.
And finally: After hosting “The Price is Right” for 35 years, Bob Barker plans to retire in June: “I will be 83 years old on December 12 and I’ve decided to retire while I’m still young.” Barker said he will be open to movie roles, but added, “I refuse to do nude scenes. These Hollywood producers want to capitalize on my obvious sexuality, but I don’t want to be just another beautiful body.”
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