July 22, 2006
The Pen And The Sword
Amid rapidly escalating violence between Israel and its tormentors in the Middle East, diminishing traction of the ersatz governments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a renewed curiosity toward his behavioral motivations, George W. Bush exercised his constitutional power to veto legislation this week — for the first time in an improbable six-year run as President of the United States.
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