George Bush, at Sea in the Desert

Michael Winship writes: "President Bush's recent speech before the Knesset, ostensibly to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday, was not only a display of political cynicism at its worst - using a diplomatic occasion to perpetrate an unseemly attack on Barack Obama - but a microcosm for the disregard with which the president holds the rest of the world. And vice versa."
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Terrorism Trials Rushed to Influence US Election

CNN News reports: "Defense lawyers for five suspected al Qaeda members asked a military appeals court Thursday to delay their clients' arraignments because several of the attorneys have not received security clearances that would allow them to participate in the hearing."
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