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President George W Bush told Europeans yesterday it was "absurd" to regard the United States as the greatest threat to world peace, as he concluded an EU-US summit overshadowed by disputes on Guantanamo Bay and trans-Atlantic trade barriers. A visibly annoyed Mr Bush was responding to a journalist's question about opinion polls, asking why most Europeans believe the United States is a greater menace than Iran or North Korea. President Bush at the summit: 'I'd like to end Guantanamo' "It's absurd, is my statement," Mr Bush snapped, taking the microphone ahead of the president of the European Commission in his...

Stay Out Of Liberia By the time you read this, the president will probably have made the decision to send or not send troops to Liberia. I hope he has chosen not to send the troops. Let's clear the intellectual debris away from this subject. The fact that the American government played some role in establishing Liberia in the 19th century does not in any way obligate America in the 21st century to clean up the mess the Liberians have made in their own country. There are no foreign invaders in Liberia. The people who have been killing, mutilating and...