- Amid talk of withdrawal, Bush calls for “a last, big push.” He wants 20,000 more troops deployed to Iraq, sharp increases in funding to Iraqi security forces, and a regional summit to involve Syria, possibly Iran. If he fails, officials expect withdrawals by Fall 2007.
- Shifting party alliances and looming 2008 politics trump substantive debate at first post-election hearing on Iraq. To their credit, Democrats arrive early, stay late, while Republicans are largely absent.
- Fun as it must have been to make, Venezuelan Prez Hugo Chavez’s “Bush is the Devil” speech is still costing the Leftist leader regional and international influence, says an official at the U.S. State Department.
- Clear Channel Communications, inc. — the advertising and media giant whose empire of billboards and Top 40 radio stations blankets the nation — sells for $18.7 billion.
- Richard Causey, last of the big-name Enron execs to be sentenced, receives five-a-half years imprisonment.
All The News That Fits. . . Bush’s “Last, Big Push” for Iraq and More
11/16/06, 12:36 pm EST
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Robodoc | 11/17/2006, 11:37 am EST
One last, big push to insert our troops into virgin territory! We must keep pushing, harder and harder! If we stop now, then we are not real men! We must not stop, must not stop, until we achieve, we achieve, we achieve… VICTORY!!! Ahhhhhhhh!
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