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Democratic Response of Senator Jim Webb To the President’s State of the Union Address **Exclusive** Tue Jan 23 2007 19:10:01 ET [EMBARGOED UNTIL 8:45pm ET] Good evening. I’m Senator Jim Webb, from Virginia, where this year we will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown – an event that marked the first step in the long journey that has made us the greatest and most prosperous nation on earth. It would not be possible in this short amount of time to actually rebut the President’s message, nor would it be useful. Let me simply say that we...

The Sacramento City Council called Tuesday night for the "rapid and comprehensive withdrawal of United States military personnel and bases from Iraq," citing the financial and human costs of the war on local resources. The resolution, sponsored by council members Lauren Hammond and Ray Tretheway, puts Sacramento on a short but growing list of cities nationwide pressing for a quick withdrawal. Chicago's council recently approved a similar measure. San Francisco made the same call a year ago. And dozens of towns in Vermont have called for a withdrawal. "When enough Congress members see there are enough cities throughout the United...

(IsraelNN.com) Robert Menard, the head of the Paris-based "watchdog" organization Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF; Reporters Without Borders), was in Beirut this week for a solidarity visit with the television personnel of the Hizbullah terrorist group. The reason for the supportive RSF visit with Hizbullah was the French government's recent decision to ban broadcasts of the group's Al-Manar television station. Rather than a ban on the terror organization's broadcasts, Menard told As-Safir, a Lebanese daily, "we favor dialogue." Menard did, however, tell his interlocutors that he was opposed to the anti-Semitic broadcasts that led to the French decision in the first...