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Just another day in the Bush Presidency

No-Confidence Vote Sought on Gonzales
By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, May 18, 2007; Page A03

 

Two leading Senate Democrats called for a vote of no confidence in Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales yesterday as political pressure for his resignation intensified in the wake of revelations about the plan to dismiss U.S. attorneys and Gonzales's role in a 2004 government crisis.


60 Die in Iraq; Study Warns Of Collapse
British Center Finds Country Close to Being a 'Failed State'

By John Ward Anderson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, May 18, 2007; A14

BAGHDAD, May 17 -- More than 60 people were killed and dozens wounded in mortar strikes, drive-by shootings, roadside explosions, suicide bombings and other violent attacks in Iraq on Thursday, as a new study warned that the country was close to becoming a "failed state."

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