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In Fox News poll, President Bush earns 65 percent approval rating…Bush: “Islam brings hope and comfort to more than a billion people worldwide…Islam affirms God’s justice and insists on man’s moral responsibility…. Islam gave birth to a rich civilization of learning that has benefited mankind.” . . . Secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld: “Torture is systematic in Iraq, and the most senior officials in the regime are involved. Electric shock, eye-gouging, acid baths, lengthy confinement in small metal boxes are only some of the crimes committed by this regime. That this pattern of human-rights violations seems not of concern to some nations is disturbing.” . . . Karl Rove on whether administration can fight Iraq war and push domestic agenda simultaneously, in Roll Call: “We’re going to show that we can walk and chew gum at the same time on the domestic stuff.” . . . Pentagon orders 27,000 Reserve and National Guard troops to prepare for duty . . . Bush says he will take smallpox vaccination…Sen. Joe Lieberman (D., Conn.) on Iraq’s report to U.N., in Associated Press: “What they gave the U.N. yesterday was probably a 12,000-page, 100-pound lie.” . . . President and First Lady send out one million Christmas cards.

Senate GOP leader Trent Lott on Mississippi voting for segregationist presidential candidate Strom Thurmond in 1948: “We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over the years.” . . . Lott apologizes for remarks: “I was insensitive. … I did not in any way mean to be endorsing policies of 54 years ago.” . . Bush on Lott: “We will not, and we must not, rest until every person of every race believes in the promise of America because they see it in their own eyes, with their own eyes, and they live it and feel it in their own lives.”

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In Fox News poll, President Bush earns 65 percent approval rating…Bush: “Islam brings hope and comfort to more than a billion people worldwide…Islam affirms God’s justice and insists on man’s moral responsibility…. Islam gave birth to a rich civilization of learning that has benefited mankind.” . . . Secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld: “Torture is systematic in Iraq, and the most senior officials in the regime are involved. Electric shock, eye-gouging, acid baths, lengthy confinement in small metal boxes are only some of the crimes committed by this regime. That this pattern of human-rights violations seems not of concern to some nations is disturbing.” . . . Karl Rove on whether administration can fight Iraq war and push domestic agenda simultaneously, in Roll Call: “We’re going to show that we can walk and chew gum at the same time on the domestic stuff.” . . . Pentagon orders 27,000 Reserve and National Guard troops to prepare for duty . . . Bush says he will take smallpox vaccination…Sen. Joe Lieberman (D., Conn.) on Iraq’s report to U.N., in Associated Press: “What they gave the U.N. yesterday was probably a 12,000-page, 100-pound lie.” . . . President and First Lady send out one million Christmas cards.

Senate GOP leader Trent Lott on Mississippi voting for segregationist presidential candidate Strom Thurmond in 1948: “We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over the years.” . . . Lott apologizes for remarks: “I was insensitive. … I did not in any way mean to be endorsing policies of 54 years ago.” . . Bush on Lott: “We will not, and we must not, rest until every person of every race believes in the promise of America because they see it in their own eyes, with their own eyes, and they live it and feel it in their own lives.”