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BERLIN - A senior member of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's own party on Wednesday contradicted the German leader’s demand that the US swiftly hand over Iraqi sovereignty to leaders in Baghdad. "Let me remind you again of the German example. It took four years (after the Nazi defeat in 1945) until we had a German government,” said Hans-Ulrich Klose, a member of Schroeder’s Social Democrats (SPD) and deputy chairman of the German Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. Klose, speaking in an NDR radio interview, noted that Iraq had far fewer structures and political leaders needed for nation-building than did Germany after the...

This week Bill took his villain of the week segment one step further and named the top 10 villains of 2002. 1) James Ziglar and Blake Brown both of the INS — Brown, a former Seattle Chief in the INS, overruled the Border Patrol to allow John Lee Malvo, one of the alleged Beltway snipers, to enter the country. Former head of the INS Ziglar ran the agency poorly. 2) FBI Chief Robert Mueller — For his treatment of whistle blower agent Coleen Rowley. 3) The Vatican Curia — For their handling of the Catholic Church sex scandal. 4)...