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Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry minces no words when he attacks President George W. Bush about his Iraq policy. Kerry calls the…
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I visited Tinian Island in the western Pacific, the base from which the B-29 bomber Enola Gay took off to drop the…
“In the century and a half since (Commodore Matthew) Perry came to Japan, Japan-U.S. relations have probably never been better,” gushed Deputy…
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