Washington Affairs |
7 July 2003
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US Uses Military Aid for Leverage -- Quite Right
The United States has decided that there are 50 countries that are unworthy of the military aid sent to them, and therefore, the money won't be arriving this year. It seems that the countries in question won't sign so-called "Article 98" deals with the US to prevent Americans from being tried before the International Criminal Court. What is laughable are the administration's opponents who claim the money should be sent anyway. Click here to read more.
Democrats' Prescription Debate Shows Loss of Conviction
Ask a conservative American whether Senator Dianne Feinstein of California or Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts is more liberal, and a long pause will follow while the decision is weighed. Yet when it comes to the pending prescription drug benefit in the latest Medicare bill in Congress, these two arch-liberals are on opposite sides of the wrong fence. No wonder the country has shifted to the right in the last 40 years. Click here for more.