What About Us, Mr. President? No Japanese? And We Have Our Troops With You in Iraq. . .

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The State Department website is going to “audio stream” tonight’s State of the Union address by President Bush in several languagues. From a State Department release: President George W. Bush will deliver the annual State of the Union Address to a Joint Session of Congress, Tuesday, January 31, 2006.

New PIPA Poll Has Disturbing Message about “Real State of the Union In Iraq”: By TWN’s Count, 62% of non-Kurdish Iraqis Support Attacks on U.S. Troops

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Today, the Program on International Policy Attitudes is releasing a new World Public Opinion poll on Iraqi public opinion. Here are the poll results. Among the findings: The poll has found that 80% of Iraqis believe that the U.S. plans to have permanent military bases in Iraq. 76% thought America would not withdraw if asked….

Bipartisan Message In <em>New York Times</em> Tomorrow Designed to Scare: Is a High Fear America the Only Thing That Will Bring Americans Together?

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Truth in advertising. I have friends involved with the Partnership for a Secure America ad posted above, which will appear as a purchased full page in tomorrow’s New York Times. This ad and what it represents will be one of the primary topics of my speech tomorrow at the “Real State of U.S.

George Stephanopoulos Queries Obama on Harry Reid’s “Draw a Line Strategy” on Ethics Reform

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Today, on This Week with George Staphanopoulos, Senator Barack Obama was queried on whether he was ‘the unnamed Senator’ mentioned by Senator Harry Reid in a blogger conference call, on which TWN reported several days ago.

C-Span Will Cover “Real State of U.S. Foreign Policy 2006” Conference — LIVE on Monday, 30 January

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Here is the final schedule for Monday’s forum that my colleagues and I have organized titled “The Real State of U.S. Foreign Policy 2006“. The meeting will take place from 8:30 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. on Monday, January 30th, in the SD-G50 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

Hamas Projected to Win 40% of Ballots in Today’s Palestinian Elections: Unofficial Israeli Leadership Drew the Line of Acceptability at 30% — Stress Ahead

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We learned in the last U.S. presidential election that one has to tiptoe carefully through exit polls, which are often wrong and distracting, but this news out of the Palestinian election rings true to me. If anything, the Palestinians may even perform better than figures being released because of the cohesiveness of their party list….