A motorcycle officer injured last week while escorting President Bush in the islands of Honolulu died Sunday, police said.
Steve Favela, 30, and two other officers crashed their cycles as the presidential motorcade was traveling across Hickam Air Force Base to meet troops for breakfast early Tuesday. The other officers were treated at The Queen's Medical Center and released.
Favela, an eight-year veteran of the Honolulu Police Department and father of four, had suffered internal injuries and had been listed in critical condition at the medical center.
Light rain had been falling on the partly cloudy morning, and some roads on the base were slick.
Military victory is no longer possible in Iraq, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in a television interview broadcast Sunday.
Kissinger presented a bleak future for Iraq, saying the US government must enter into dialogue with Iraq's regional neighbors, including Iran, if progress is to be made in the region.
"If you mean by 'military victory' an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible," he told the British Broadcasting Corp.
But Kissinger, an architect of the Vietnam war who has advised President Bush about Iraq, warned against a rapid withdrawal of coalition troops, saying it could destabilize Iraq's neighbors and cause a long-lasting conflict.
"A dramatic collapse of Iraq - whatever we think about how the situation was created - would have disastrous consequences for which we would pay for many years and which would bring us back, one way or another, into the region," he said.
"I think we have to redefine the course, but I don't think that the alternative is between military victory, as defined previously, or total withdrawal," he said.
3 years, 8 months, 9 days since the war began thousands have died, and victory of what is the question. Sure we have done good for many people, yet it is out of control at this point and it all started at the beginning with the looting in the streets, after the fall of the dictator. Where was the armor for Troops, who was suppose to police the streets.
No Weapons of Mass Destruction found in Iraq, yet North Korea and Iran push ahead with their goals to have the weapon. Who's the threat is the question.
U.S. and Argentine media reported that one of U.S. President George W. Bush's 24-year-old twin daughters had her purse stolen while being guarded by the Secret Service during a visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
ABC News, citing unidentified law enforcement reports, reported on its website Tuesday that Barbara Bush's purse and cell phone were taken while she was dining in a Buenos Aires restaurant.
La Nacion newspaper, citing anonymous government sources, said in its online edition early Wednesday that one of Bush's daughters had her purse taken Sunday afternoon in the popular tourist district of San Telmo.
A pair of thieves removed the purse from under a table while Secret Service agents stood guard at a distance, La Nacion reported. La Nacion said its sources did not reveal which of the Bush daughters had her purse stolen.
It was hard to tell from the picture which one had the fight with the would be attackers aka; purse snatchers.
The Democratic Party is declaring victory in its bid to take control of the Senate and with it, both chambers of Congress.
Sen. George Allen, the Virginia Republican who had his eyes on the presidency before his own campaign for reelection started unraveling with his greeting of a young man of Indian descent at a rally as "macaca,'' has not conceded defeat yet, calling for and awaiting the outcome of a canvassing of votes in the close Virginia election that apparently has handed the Senate seat to Democrat Jim Webb, with a 7000 plus lead in votes.
"It is now apparent that Democrats have captured a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate,'' N.Y. Democrat Schumer said in a statement released last night by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. "We look forward to setting a new direction for America, in Iraq and here at home."
President Bush, acknowleding a "disappointing" defeat on Tuesday, already is starting to meet with the Democrats who will take control of the House in January. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat slated to become speaker, and a fierce campaign combatant who had described Bush as "in deinal'' and "dangerous" the day before the election, will lead the party's luncheon delegation at the White House. Bush, who explains that this campaign wasn't his first "rodeo," says he's ready for peace.
If Webb's Virginia victory holds, Bush will be having lunch with a lot more Democrats in coming days.
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resigned Wednesday, a day after an American electorate, frustrated with the progress of the war in Iraq, have elected a Democratic leadership in Washington (D.C.).
President George W. Bush announced Rumsfeld's resignation at a press conference Wednesday, and said he had asked Robert Gates, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to replace him.
"Now, after a series of thoughtful conversations, Secretary Rumsfeld and I agreed that the timing is right for new leadership at the Pentagon," Bush said. "Our military has experienced an enormous amount of change and reform during the last five years while fighting the war on terror, one of the most consequential wars in our nation's history." Asked whether his announcement signaled a new direction in the war that has claimed the lives of more than 2,800 US troops, Bush said, "Well, there's certainly going to be new leadership at the Pentagon."
Evangelical Leader Haggard Involved In Gay Sex & Drugs
Ted Haggard evangelical Christian leader in the US has admitted to buying drugs from a male prostitute and seeking a massage, but denied ever having sex with the man or using the drugs.
Haggard, a vocal opponent of gay marriage, resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals on Thursday, after being accused by a male escort of having had a sexual relationship with him and using the drug methamphetamine over the past three years.
The 50-year-old father of five told a local television channel in his home state of Colorado that he called the man to buy drugs but that he later threw them away.
His accuser, Mike Jones, has denied that the allegations, coming days before crucial mid-term elections, were politically motivated.
Jones said he had felt compelled to come forward because he believed Mr Haggard's stance against same-sex unions was hypocritical.
Haggard has close links to the White House and was described in 2005 as being one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in the US by Time Magazine.
The 30-million member NAE represents 45,000 churches across the United States.
He is seen as an influential supporter of President George W Bush, and up to this day has been talking with Bush weekly on the upcoming elections, and is often credited with rallying evangelical voters behind the Republicans during the 2004 election.
Bill Clinton said he tried smoking marijuana but didn't inhale, what can Haggard say about meth, "I snorted it, but I didn't catch a buzz." No he said, "I bought it but I threw it away."
Ok I buy crack all the time from drug dealers, hoping someday I will get the courage to smoke it, until then I just continue to buy it and toss it in the garbage, then I pray for courage and then proceed to call up gay guys to give me a massage.
Total Bull Shit, this is why I don't go to church, "What does the messenger do in his spare time, molest little boys and girls, then they tell me I'm a sinner for drinking beer."
A motorcycle officer injured last week while escorting President Bush in the islands of Honolulu died Sunday, police said.
