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[description] (NECN/ABC) - Democrats are taking offense at remarks President Bush made before the Israel Knesset -- comments that compare Nazi appeasers to those who might negotiate with today's rogue states. Mr. Bush may have moved onto Saudi Arabia, b...

[description] (NECN/ABC) - Time for hard-ball politics, presidential style. He may be in Israel, but President Bush has jumped into the middle of this year's run for the White House. He and John McCain are taking on democrat Barack Obama. He may have...

[description] (NECN) - Senator Barack Obama is speaking out against President Bush and John McCain for accusing him of appeasing terrorists. Lumping McCain together with President Bush, Obama declared: "If they want a debate about protecting the United...

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[description] A law expanding the government's ability to spy on Americans without court-approved warrants may expire Saturday, because House democrats are unhappy about a provision granting immunity to telephone companies that cooperated with the government in the surveillance. We speak with Wall Street Journal correspondent Siobhan Gorman. President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Malaki are forging a long term defense pact that would oblige US troops to protect Iraq for years to come. The president says he can approve the deal without congressional approval, but legal experts say this kind of deal has never been approved without Senate ratification. Boston Globe reporter, Charlie Savage, joins us with more. We also speak with retired Marine captain and former assistant secretary of defense, Bing West, who's just back from Iraq. West says the surge is working and U-S troops are doing great things in Iraq but the political situation there is still chaotic. Today we look at romance

[description] The storm has moved on, but tens of thousands are still without power in Oregon and Washington and several miles of Interstate 5, the main artery connecting Canada, the US, and Mexico, is still under water. We'll get a report with Tom Banse of KUOW-FM. Jared Cohen is a member of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, where he works on outreach to youth in the Muslim world. He traveled around the Middle East meeting other twentysomethings in Lebanon, Syria and Iran and finds them surprisingly similar to their American counterparts. He writes about his experiences in a new book called, "Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East." The film "The Golden Compass" opens in theaters on Friday but the Catholic League has already called for a boycott of the movie. William Donohue, head of the League, charges that the books on which the film is based are anti-religion. We talk about the controversy surrounding Philip Pullman's trilogy, "His

[description] Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been put under virtual house arrest as President Pervez Musharraf continues his crackdown on protests against the emergency rule he declared six days ago. We get the latest from Suzanna Koster, a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor in Islamabad. A conversation with Jan Scruggs, the Vietnam War veterans who had the original idea for a memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Wall is marking its 25th anniversary this weekend. Here and Now's Bob Oakes speaks with Illinois Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. We peruse our email folder, mailbag and voice mail to air listener comments on some of our recent coverage.

[description] Michael Desch, then at the University of Kentucky, observed just as the US invasion of Iraq began, that the Ominous Precedent and in a sense the strategic model for the Bush warriors was Israel’s war on Lebanon, led by Ariel Sharon in 1982 and ended 18 years later by Ehud Barak’s withdrawal from Southern Lebanon. As chance would have it, Michael Desch now holds a Texas A and M professorship named for the Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in the school of public policy named for the President of the United States. He remains, in our conversation, unflinchingly critical of “the party of war” and the thinking that took us to Iraq. Shouldn’t we be hearing more from the brave sages who pegged the dangers — even called the outcome — of the Iraq war remarkably, precisely right. This is a series of interviews with a slate of them. On my office wall I keep posted a quarter-page New York Times ad ad from September 26, 2002 — paid for by the signatories because the Times wouldn’t accept it as an op-ed — in which 33 scholars of international relations spelled out the reasons why “WAR WITH IRAQ IS NOT IN AMERICA’S NATIONAL INTEREST.”