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WASHINGTON -- The United States is losing credibility in Europe because of the situation in Iraq and must quickly repair the damage or face eroding support for the fight against terrorism, lawmakers said Sunday."If you were president of the United States and I were your secretary of state, I'd say, 'Get on the plane now, go to Europe. This is a time to unite, unite Europe,'" Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., told the host of ABC's "This Week.""And if you continue to lose Europe, you're jeopardizing my country," said Biden, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.Strains in...

A presidential primary is a way for a political party to make up its mind. Through the process of nominating a candidate, a party figures out its stances on the new issues and what adjustments, if any, it will make in its positions on the old. So with that, through their collective rhetoric and actions, the ten Democratic candidates have arrived at the outlines of a rough philosophy — the credo of the Democrats of '04. This credo is often nonsensical and hypocritical, but it is clearly discernible. The Democrats of '04 believe: That wars should be authorized, but never...