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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jamey who wrote (749712)	9/20/2006 7:38:54 PM
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Bush says he'd send troops into Pakistan 1 hour, 28 minutes ago WASHINGTON - President Bush said Wednesday he would order military action inside Pakistan if intelligence indicated that Osama bin Laden or other top terror leaders were hiding there. "Absolutely," Bush said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. ADVERTISEMENT With bin Laden still at large five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and believed to be hiding somewhere along the mountainous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Bush disputed any suggestion that Pakistan has not done enough to hunt down terrorist leaders. Bush meets Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf at the White House on Friday and again next week. "I view President Musharraf as somebody who would like to bring al-Qaida to justice," Bush said. "There's no question there is a kind of a hostile territory in the remote regions of Pakistan that makes it easier for somebody to hide." In a news conference last week, Bush said he could not send thousands of troops into Pakistan to search for bin Laden without an invitation from the government. "Pakistan's a sovereign nation," Bush said then. In the television interview, Bush was asked whether he would give the order for American troops to kill or capture bin Laden or other terror leaders if good intelligence pointed to their whereabouts, even if it was inside Pakistan's borders. "We would take the action necessary to bring them to justice," the president said. On the standoff over Iran's suspected nuclear weapons ambitions, Bush said he takes Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seriously when he says Israel shouldn't exist. Ahmadinejad has called the Nazis' slaughter of 6 million Jews a myth and said Israel should be wiped off the map or moved to Germany or the United States. "You can't just hope for the best," Bush said. "You've got to assume that the leader, when he says that he would like to destroy Israel, means what he says. If you take — if you say, well, gosh, maybe he doesn't mean it, and you turn out to be wrong, you have not done your duty as a world leader. ... Absolutely I take him seriously." Bush would not address Israeli estimates that it could take Iran only a few more months to get to the point where it could start building a nuclear bomb. "I'm not going to discuss with you our intelligence on the subject," the president said. "But time is of the essence." Earlier Wednesday, White House press secretary Tony Snow said Bush did not watch Ahmadinejad's speech Tuesday evening at the U.N. General Assembly. In those remarks, which took place only hours after Bush stood at the same podium in New York, the hard-line leader denounced U.S. policies in Iraq and Lebanon and accused Washington of abusing its power in the Security Council to punish others while protecting its own interests and allies. Ahmadinejad insisted that his nation's nuclear activities are "transparent, peaceful and under the watchful eye" of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog.

To: Jamey who wrote (749712)	9/20/2006 7:40:52 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

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To: Jamey who wrote (749712)	9/20/2006 8:50:49 PM
From: Stan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Isolated numbers appear larger (or smaller) than they really are. Half of that 8 trillion includes intra-government debt, such as what is owed to Social Security or to civil pensions. The rest is public debt. Household net worth is over 50 trillion. That makes the national debt either 17% or 8 1/2% of net worth (approximately), depending on your preference.

To: Jamey who wrote (749712)	9/20/2006 11:21:23 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

Both Parties in Ky. Battle Try to Take Right Flank By Jim VandeHei and Chris Cillizza Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, September 21, 2006; Page A01 ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky., Sept. 20 -- Mike Weaver, age 67, is a former Army colonel who said he knows what war is about. He'll tell you that if you ask, or if you don't. In fact, he rarely goes more than a few sentences without mentioning his military career. He's eager also to share his views on abortion rights: opposed. Or gun control: opposed. Or same-sex marriage: very much opposed. Weaver is the Democrat in Kentucky's 2nd District. At first blush, that might seem like an advantage. There are 100,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in these precincts, home to tobacco fields and Fort Knox, south of Louisville. But for the past 12 years a good many of these Democrats have been happy to vote again and again for one of the most reliably conservative Republicans in Congress. Rep. Ron Lewis, who used to own a Christian bookstore, has won seven straight elections -- most times without breaking a sweat. Weaver is doing his best to make Lewis sweat this time. Weaver's campaign revolves largely around convincing even his fellow Democrats that he is conservative enough. This is one of the places where the "Republican Revolution" began in 1994 -- before then, Democratic representative William H. Natcher held the seat for 40 years -- and it is a good window into whether the GOP reign will end in 2006. It is also the first stop in The Washington Post's nine-day trek through nine congressional districts that sit on the dividing line between the upper South and the industrial Midwest. There is no place outside the Ohio River Valley where so many competitive districts are clustered in an unbroken line. The aim is to capture the 2006 campaign -- its characters, issues, back stories -- at eye level, touring 500 miles of main roads and less-traveled paths through Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia. Even in a year buffeted by unease over the Iraq war and other national issues, many competitive races are shaped by local twists. There is the Democratic candidate who worries that a decades-old high school basketball rivalry could cost him the election, and a Republican hopes to turn local pork-barrel spending into political gold. And there is Kentucky's 2nd, where Weaver is running not only against Lewis but also against long currents of political history. Natcher, who as Appropriations Committee chairman prided himself on the bridges and highways his political clout made possible, was a beloved figure right up until his death in office in March 1994. In the special election to replace him, Lewis hit hard on President Bill Clinton's unpopularity in the district. At the time, Lewis's victory was seen as something of an aberration.