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President George W. Bush of the United States has been encountering hearing problems around the world, but they are beginning to evaporate. Among the dividends already harvested from the War in Iraq: sudden changes in attitude from the other two regimes he once listed in his "axis of evil". Iran publicly declared it would not grant admission through its borders to members of Saddam Hussein's fallen regime, and that if they tried to enter illegally they would be apprehended and put on trial. (Hence their general movement westward.) No less than Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, the hothead who has led crowds...

The future is now The reaction to the American and British victory in Iraq, in Iraq itself, was as predictable as the victory, to anyone with genuine knowledge of the situation there. The gratitude to President Bush and the allies is, momentarily, intense and euphoric. It is a comet-like condition that lasts about two days, but has a tail six months long -- the time in which the hard stuff has to be attempted, of creating a constitutional order for Iraq, out of almost nothing. After that, Iraq is likely to settle back into a mood fairly unlike gratitude, as...

I just saw a news flash on FOX an hour ago that said allies has destoyed the downed Apache, presumabley to keep its top secret software, radar, and avionics from the wrong hands. But now I can't find any reference to this. Anyone know if this has been confirmed? (Also, remember how we lost an F-117 Stealth Fighter in Serbia and Clinton let Serbs dance on it for days before they sold it to their patrons, the Russians. Never destroyed it even though he knew exact coordinates...?)