What I like better than Cooper's admission, or the good reasons he summarizes for making such an admission, is his insistence that even under these circumstances he has a right to a private life, and he intends to invoke those rights.

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Harry listed some of the work that you did on behalf of the American people, even under these difficult circumstances: extending health insurance to 4 million children, protecting consumers from getting ripped off by their credit card companies, and kids being targeted by big tobacco.

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Yet even under these wonderful circumstances, politicians in Europe and America (leftists, conservatives, Democrats and Republicans alike) are wringing their hands about the perils of globalisation, abdicating their duty to explain the facts to voters, and equipping the anti-capitalists with weapons to use in the next fight.

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Under these circumstances, even modest cuts in military spending, let alone those contemplated by Mr. Frank, risk another "hollowing-out" of the armed forces of a kind not seen since another "progressive" Democrat, Jimmy Carter, occupied the White House in the late 1970s.

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And I want to thank President Abbas for participating in these proximity talks even under some difficult circumstances.

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Under these circumstances, surging more troops into Iraq on even a short-term basis may be problematic, to say nothing of maintaining an extra 15, 000-50, 000 soldiers and Marines there for a couple of years time (various options said to be under consideration by the President).

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To hold the suspect as an enemy combatant under these circumstances would be contrary to our laws and may even jeopardize our efforts to prosecute him for his crimes.

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