But neither of those are central to an enduring Republican majority, and hopefully in 2008 those people who shoot themselves in the foot will retire ahead of 2008, and that the war will be in the rearview mirror rather than in the windshield.

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Robin Cook, the most senior minister to resign over the war, wrote an article in the Sunday Mirror on March 30th, calling for British troops to be brought home before more are killed.

ECONOMIST: Those awkward hearts and minds

Here we were treated to a mirror image as Ferguson's concise answers to routine questions were made to seem like whole chapters from War and Peace by the time Fifa's Japanese translator had worked her magic.

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