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Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va) criticized President Bush yesterday for giving the United States the image "of a belligerent bully," and said Bush's contrasting handling of threats posed by North Korea and Iraq revealed major flaws in his foreign policy. Byrd said Bush appeared eager to apply his doctrine of preemptive military action against less powerful countries such as Iraq, but not against countries that may pose a nuclear threat, such as North Korea.

'He has to go,' Spike Lee said, [on ABC Television's Good Morning America program] and called Senator Trent Lott 'a card carrying member of the Klan..I know he has that hood in the closet somewhere..the hood and the robe.'Film Director Lee said that the African Americans in the Bush Administration, such as Secretary of State Colin Powell and NSA Advisor Condoleeza Rice, should take a stand against Lott.'Bush, Powell, Miss Rice, lets go,' he said.'You know, prominient African Americans in the Bush Administration, what's this, mum's the word? Bush got you in check, you can't speak out? Going to let...