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2004 US Elections

Monday, May 24, 2004

"Did Somebody Say War?(New York Times)
By BOB HERBERT
Published: May 24, 2004

President Bush fell off his bike and hurt himself during a 17-mile excursion at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Saturday. Nothing serious. A few cuts and bruises. He was wearing a bike helmet and a mouth guard, and he was able to climb back on his bike and finish his ride.
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Tribal Warfare in Iraq(New York Times)
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Published: May 24, 2004

The three factions controlling Iraq long suspicious of one another are now on the brink of open tribal warfare. Not the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds I mean the Pentagon, State Department and C.I.A.
The spark setting off this U.S. bureaucratic conflagration is the former Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi, a sophisticated, secular Shiite who organized resistance to the Sunni despot Saddam Hussein before it was popular.
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