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Just hours after being informed on Sunday that more than a dozen U.S. soldiers had been killed when their helicopter was shot down in Iraq, presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark was making political hay over the tragedy, telling a California audience that President Bush should be held accountable. "On a day in which 15 more Americans were killed in a tragic escalation of the war there is still no success strategy, there is no plan, there is no leadership," Gen. Clark complained. "Where is the leadership? Where is the accountability?" The New York Sun reports that Clark told the...

ACROSS THE COUNTRY Republicans and conservatives are asking each other the same basic question: Has the other side gone crazy? Have the Democrats totally flipped their lids? Because every day some Democrat seems to make a manic or totally over-the-top statement about George Bush, the Republican party, and the state of the nation today. "This republic is at its greatest danger in its history because of this administration," says Democratic senator Robert Byrd. "I think this is deliberate, intentional destruction of the United States of America," says liberal commentator Bill Moyers. George Bush's economic policy is the "most radical and...