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AMMAN, Jordan - Mohammed Domeh was relaxing on his living room sofa, watching the TV news when he heard the fateful words: President Bush was flatly ruling out the return of Palestinians such as himself to what is now Israel. "When I heard what Bush had to say — and I am saying this as a Palestinian intellectual — I wished I could wear an explosive belt around my waist and blow myself up in front of Bush," said Domeh, 44. Such anti-American rage, from an otherwise mild-spoken, middle-class Palestinian writer, is being echoed around the Arab world at a...

ot to trivialize a serious matter, but the hearings of the Sept. 11 commission have begun to remind me of one of Smokey Robinson's less famous hits. It's called Who's Gonna Take the Blame. Over the last month, the men and women in the hot seat have spent as much time pointing fingers at one another as they have analyzing the lessons of the terrorist attacks. What should have been a search for facts has instead become an exercise in pinning -- and trying not to be pinned with -- the blame. Who was responsible for Sept. 11? Web Vote...

<p>MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — New York Gov. George Pataki (search) urged supporters Saturday to back President Bush's re-election by saying Democrats' failure to respond to previous acts of terrorism led the way to the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.</p> <p>Pataki criticized the Clinton administration for not properly responding to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa, the bombing of the USS Cole (search) and an attack on a U.S. military barracks in Saudi Arabia.</p>

Given the reaction to the presidential news conference this week, the following announcement is necessary. So here goes: Oprah Winfrey is not the president of the United States. George W. Bush is the president. Sounds shocking? Perhaps only to those demanding a misty-eyed Oprah moment from the prime-time news conference. I like Oprah, and she delivers emotion. Bush's critics wanted emotion too. They wanted feelings, perhaps a trembling lip, some guilty breast-beating, something juicy; oh, the humanity of it all. They wanted him to take sound-bite blame for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed thousands of Americans. The...

Innocent Democrats blame Republicans for 911 Recently, during the 911 National Commission hearings dealing with terrorist attacks upon the United States, we heard Condoleezza Rice respond to questions. One statement she made that needs reemphasis, “The terrorists were at war with us, but we were not yet at war with them.” Not only should Americans in general grasp the importance of those words, but slumbering Republicans, best heed those words as well. It should be perfectly clear to all American citizens that it does not matter what happened concerning national security preparations to fight terrorists before President Bush placed his...

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States — more commonly known as the 9-11 Commission — is in the process of conducting what ostensibly is a bipartisan investigation into the events leading to 9/11, but what is in reality a partisan assault upon President Bush's greatest asset, his handling of the War on Terror. But it's all so much smoke and mirrors, since the two actual culprits will be mostly ignored. Culprit #1 is al-Qaida. The fanatical terrorists who perpetrated 9/11 are, of course, the principal villains. But there is another culprit, an unindicted co-conspirator upon whom...

In 1992, when Richard Clarke assumed the counterterrorism portfolio in the White House, terrorism was not a serious problem. Libya's downing of Pan Am 103 four years before had been the last major attack on a U.S. target. Yet when Clarke left his post in October 2001, terrorism had become the single-greatest threat to America. Clarke would have us believe this happened because of events beyond anyone's ability to control. He argues, moreover, that the Bush administration has adopted a fatally wrong approach to the war on terror by including states, particularly Iraq, in its response to the 9/11 attacks....

WorldNetDaily / Commentary Henry Lamb High-gas-price blues? Blame the greens {And Democrats!} Posted: March 27, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com As gasoline prices continue to climb, finger pointing is becoming a national pastime. Led by Sen. Ted Kennedy, of all people, Senate Democrats say they are "outraged that the administration is not doing everything in its power to alleviate the strain on drivers, consumers and businesses." This same Ted Kennedy, and Tom Daschle, have led Senate Democrats to block the administration's energy bill. They have done everything in their power to increase the strain on drivers, consumers and businesses by...

The seminal moment of this week's hearings on 9/11 surely came yesterday when Richard Clarke, the former antiterrorism chief in the Bush and Clinton administrations, opened his testimony by apologizing to the families whose loved ones died in the terror attacks. The government, Mr. Clarke said, had failed them, "and I failed you." He added, "We tried hard, but that doesn't matter because we failed." It suddenly seemed that after the billions of words uttered about that terrible day, Mr. Clarke had found the ones that still needed saying. The two days of hearings by the commission investigating the attacks...

Granholm focuses on job losses during Bush administrationThe Associated Press3/20/2004, 12:36 p.m. ET LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Jennifer Granholm used the Democratic response to President Bush's weekly radio address to focus on the loss of manufacturing jobs in Michigan and across the country.She recounted the January decision of Sweden-based appliance maker Electrolux AB to move 2,700 jobs from its plant in Greenville to Mexico next year.Granholm said the Bush administration is to blame for the decision of Electrolux and other manufacturing companies to lay off workers and move jobs oversees."After losing over 2.7 million manufacturing jobs over the last...

<p>Despite fears that it could promote anti-Semitism, the new film by Mel Gibson "The Passion of the Christ'' may have made Americans less likely to blame Jews for the death of Jesus, according to a new survey.</p> <p>Among those interviewed for a new national poll who had seen or knew about the film, 83 percent said the movie and its surrounding controversy had no effect on the extent they believe contemporary Jews are responsible for the death of Jesus. Only 2 percent said the movie made them more likely to blame Jews, while 9 percent said the movie made them less likely to hold Jews responsible.</p>

Filipino islanders blame GM crop for mystery sickness Monsanto denies scientist's claim that maize may have caused 100 villagers to fall ill John Aglionby in Kalyong, southern Philippines Wednesday March 3, 2004 The Guardian (UK) The recently planted rows of pineapple plants in the four-acre field on one side of the Malayon family home look neat and well-tended, but are otherwise not really worth a second glance. But what occurred last year on and around this plot in Kalyong village, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, is threatening to turn this unremarkable field into a battleground in the war...

NORTHFIELD, MINN. -- Former President Jimmy Carter delivered a Saturday sermon to a standing-room-only crowd at St. Olaf College, condemning the American people as much as their leaders for what he called their indifference to the disease and despair that prevail in much of the developing world. "It's a different world from ours," he said. "And we don't really care what happens to them." The winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize was in Minnesota as the centerpiece of the two-day 16th annual Nobel Peace Prize Forum. He was greeted with foot-stomping rapture, applauded not only in the college's Skoglund...

GOP Blames Clinton for Iraq Intel Lapse 1 hour, 9 minutes ago WASHINGTON - In a sign of how Republicans may try to quell criticism of prewar intelligence in Iraq, the head of the House Intelligence Committee tried Wednesday to direct blame to the Clinton administration. Rep. Porter J. Goss, R-Fla., said he heard a 1998 speech in which then-President Clinton warned that something must be done about Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. "Unfortunately, he did not complete that task before his term expired," Goss said at a Capitol Hill press conference. Goss said the...

Annan slams Bush for reliance on U.N. inspectors - January 29, 2004 http://www.jewishworldreview.com | United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today slammed the Bush administration for its reliance upon a decade of intelligence gathered in Iraq by United Nations weapons inspectors. Mr. Annan's critique came after David Kay, the outgoing chief of the Iraq Survey Group, told a Senate panel that U.S. intelligence agencies had become dependent upon the U.N. weapons inspectors and didn't develop their own sources. This resulted in faulty analysis of Saddam Hussein's remaining WMD stockpiles. "Bush is naive," said Mr. Annan. "He's a lemming who blindly went...

QUITE A FEW people would probably rail against Laura Schlessinger, the radio pop psychologist known for her diatribes against abortion, working mothers, and gay rights, even if she said that you should be kind to animals and brush your teeth regularly. When "Dr. Laura" writes a book which pins most of the blame for modern marital problems on selfish, overly demanding women, that's bound to ruffle feathers.

Blame falls on BBC as Hutton report leaks Richard Norton-Taylor, Michael White and Patrick Wintour Wednesday January 28, 2004 The Guardian The government is expected to be cleared by Lord Hutton today of the central charge that it sexed up its Iraqi weapons dossier, the Guardian has learned. He is believed to have exonerated Alastair Campbell, the prime minister's former communications chief, from unduly influencing the joint intelligence committee, chaired by John Scarlett. Lord Hutton is also understood to have cleared Tony Blair of wrongdoing in the stategy which led to the unmasking of the government scientist, who later killed...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Iraqi weapons inspector David Kay said he blames U.S. intelligence for telling President George W. Bush that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction prior to going to war last spring. Kay, who was appointed by the Bush administration to look for chemical and biological weapons in Iraq, concluded on Friday that there were no stockpiles of weapons. Some of the Democrat presidential candidates used this news from Kay to lambaste Bush as well as Vice President Dick Cheney. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), the new front-runner for the Democrat nomination for president, said that Bush, Cheney and...

THE Arab world should stop blaming others and accept responsibility for its own failings, a panel of reformist Arab political and business leaders urged yesterday. The speakers at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos said many Arab governments were "in denial" about the need for real political reform. The statements are likely to cause anger in conservative Arab states such as Saudi Arabia, which have been resisting calls to become more democratic. They were also a swipe at Arab leaders, including Islamic militants, who blame the West for problems in the Arab world. "Arab governments...

THE Arab world should stop blaming others and accept responsibility for its own failings, a panel of reformist Arab political and business leaders urged yesterday. The speakers at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos said that many Arab governments were “in denial” about the need for real political reform. The statements are likely to cause anger in conservative Arab states such as Saudi Arabia, which have been resisting calls — particularly from the West — to become more democratic. They were also a swipe at Arab leaders, including Islamic militants, who blame the West for...