This is not the icing on the cake of the Bush Administration. That’s still to come.
Rather, the sticky mess we’re mired in–as Feds ponder ingredients of their soon-to-come Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailout on top of the IndyMac fiasco, second largest bank failure in American history, not to mention the Bear Stearns bailout–is only the latest layer in a tall leaning cake historians will someday deconstruct like archaeologists at a dig to try and figure out how we could’ve allowed such a chef as George W. Bush in the kitchen to begin with.
Senator Obama published a sketch of a plan for Iraq in the New York Times today, and it's about the same as his plan has always been, clearly superior to Bush or McCain and yet horribly muddled, vague, and militaristic, until he gets to the highly encouraging last few lines.
ISLAMABAD JULY 13/08 - Over the past few days the Americans have hit the Pakistanis at the border and are increasing threats of hot pursuit. Some of the peace deals between frontier forces and militant groups are holding. In other areas, the Taliban have besieged Pakistani troops, kidnapped soldiers and others, and killed them in ambushes.
France has begun Bastille Day celebrations amid controversy as Syria's leader joined dozens of other leaders to watch the Champs Elysees military parade.
China has unveiled fresh steps to tighten security for the upcoming Olympics, warning of an unprecedented threat to the games less than four weeks ahead of the opening ceremony in Beijing.
The International Criminal Court (ICC), based in the Netherlands, has announced its intention to seek the arrest of Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, for alleged war crimes.
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, has said that Israel and the Palestinians have "never been this close" to a peace deal, at a press event before the launch of a revamped Euro-Mediterranean union.
The spotlight at a summit of more than 40 countries around the Mediterranean has been stolen by the Middle East peace process and the emergence of France as a key player in it.
Australian athletes and spectators wanting to express their concerns over Tibet at the Beijing Olympics have been offered a protest group's resource pack, but the country’s Olympic Committee is discouraging its athletes from taking them to China.
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China has unveiled fresh steps to tighten security for the upcoming Olympics, warning of an unprecedented threat to the games less than four weeks ahead of the opening ceremony in Beijing.
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, has said that Israel and the Palestinians have "never been this close" to a peace deal, at a press event before the launch of a revamped Euro-Mediterranean union.
The spotlight at a summit of more than 40 countries around the Mediterranean has been stolen by the Middle East peace process and the emergence of France as a key player in it.
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