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Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California tried to send a clear message on Friday that any legislative victory Bush won this week, when Democrats acceded to his demands and removed the withdrawal timeline, would be short-lived. "We are going to bring an end to this war," Pelosi said. "All of us have that goal."
Withdrawing from the country in no way ends

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[capnstamey]

I think the problem with so-called progressive measures is that they're so short-sighted. Raising minimun wage won't help at all. It'll pay people more to do minimal tasks, and with inflation being the natural order of things, minimum wage will just continue to be minimum wage... it's a vicious cycle. Wages increase, prices increase. Etcetera

corruption

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> But since the Middle East's plethora of conflicts have been escalating since the dawn of time, I don't think resolution is really viable.

Right... I feel that we jumped into the middle of it, and by upsetting Saddam, upset the precarious balance between the religious warring factions. But I can't make any judgment as to whether that was for the better or worse, because I don't know. But it would certainly be foolish to regard it as a war for us to win, or even a war that we can win