President George W. Bush on Sunday will visit the site where New York’s twin towers once stood, as he marks the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks amid an intensifying election-year debate over whether his policies have made America safer or more vulnerable.
President Bush personally signed off on a visa allowing former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami to visit the United States because he wanted hear his views, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
President Bush says he believes Republicans will retain control of the Congress after the November elections, even as members of his own party predict a loss of some seats.
To many of President Bush’s allies, it is time to free intelligence officials from “legislative purgatory” and get the CIA back in the business of effective interrogations of suspected terrorists.
By DALE McFEATTERS
The immediate aftermath of 9/11 produced a phrase that quickly became a cliche: "the new normal." It was a tacit acknowledgement that we would never return to the status quo that existed before that brilliant September morning, when four hijacked airliners came careening out of the sky.