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Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.
CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.
LONDON - JULY 25: Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England.
Anti-government demonstrators pass out free women's underwear to others Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, outside Government House in Bangkok, Thailand. Demonstrators continue to occupy the grounds of Government House and the surrounding area demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
Andy Roddick of the U.S. celebrates a point against Ernests Gulbis of Latvia during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows in New York August 29, 2008.
NEW YORK - AUGUST 29: Andy Roddick of the United States returns a shot against Ernests Gulbis of Latvia during Day 5 of the 2008 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 29, 2008 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning looks on from the bench during the second quarter of a preseason NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals in Indianapolis, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008.
India's bowler Harbhajan Singh brings water during the 5th and final One Day International cricket match between India and Sri Lanka on Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. India has an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the 5 match series.
South Africa's AB de Villiers (L) is run out by England's Matthew Prior (R) during the third Natwest one day International between England and South Africa at The Brit Oval cricket ground, London, England, on August 29, 2008.
Anti-government protesters lie down on the street to avoid tear gas during a demonstration at the Metropolitan Police Bureau in Bangkok on August 29, 2008. Thai police fired tear gas to try to break up about 2,000 anti-government protesters gathered outside the Bangkok police headquarters, an.
They're pretty similar. Well, one thing that's different is that we don't have a huge consulting industry like you do here. In Canada the parties like to produce their ads and such in-house. So if you work at a consulting firm and want to work on the election you take a leave and volunteer for the campaign. And don't get paid. When I see Mark Penn making millions of dollars. 
Mark [Penn] did not believe in it. And we always had to keep an eye towards the general election. In a general election, her support for the war would have been great.
Competing in South Carolina was bigger than any Mark Penn blunder and bigger than the experience versus her softer-side blunder. It was the central decision that lost the election.
Let’s consider what happens when major Dems are relentlessly demonized… And Mark Penn gets special mention too… You see Penn is the latest major Dem demon.
Some may argue that we would be more effective if we sanctioned torture or other expedient methods to obtain information from the enemy. Beyond the basic fact that such actions are illegal, history shows that they also are frequently neither useful nor necessary.
no good intelligence is going to come from abusive practices. I think history tells us that. I think the empirical evidence of the last five years, hard years, tells us that.
