Bush Administration officials should stop criticizing people who disagree with them as “less than patriotic.” That attitude helped get them into the trouble they are in.

Northern Ireland’s largest pro-Catholic political party voted overwhelmingly Sunday to cooperate with the predominantly Protestant police force, a remarkable reversal toward cementing peace in a British province recovering from three decades of sectarian war.

“(Castro) represents everything bad that has happened to the people of Cuba for 48 years,” said Miami City Commissioner Tomas Regalado, a Cuban American who came up with the idea.

“We’re hoping that it will convince people that climate change is real and that we have a responsibility for much of it, and that we really do have to make changes in how we live,” said Kenneth Denman.

Sen. Biden said that if America’s enemies were being emboldened, it was by “the failed policy of this president, going to war without a strategy.”

Mr. Qumi would not provide specifics on Iran’s offer of military assistance to Iraq, but said it included increased border patrols and a proposed new “joint security committee.”

“And we must persuade non-signatories to join, while building consensus for the urgent deployment of a UN-AU force on the ground,” Mr. Ban continued.

While many Republicans want to give their president “one last shot” at a military solution, there is pervasive pessimism about the new strategy.

“It’s not the American people or the U.S. Congress who are emboldening the enemy,” said Democratic Sen. Joe Biden. “It’s the failed policy of this President.”

Delaware Democratic Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., who will formally enter the 2008 presidential race on Wednesday, was first elected to the Senate in November 1972, about two weeks before his 30th birthday.