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Murtha--and unlike the drumbeaters who seek to disparage him--I remember all too painfully how more than half of the 59,000 people whose names are on the Vietnam Memorial were killed during the five years that it took the "best and brightest" of that era to find political and diplomatic fig leaves big enough to hide the bankruptcy of their policies, to cover our nation's retreat from their ill-conceived and misdirected crusade, and to insulate themselves from public accountability.

The Iraq discussion we need by Bobrowsky, Igor / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

It's chock full of a wealth of information on varieties, fig botany and cultivation, quick ideas for fresh and dried figs, sources for buying figs and how to cook with fig leaves.

COOK'S CORNER GET CREATIVE WITH FRESH FIGS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Behind all the media euphemisms and diplomat-speak, a cold hard reality about Resolution 1441 is already history: the resolution was fashioned to provide important fig leaves for domestic politics and foreign governments.

Unilateral power--by any other name. (Media Beat) by Solomon, Norman / The Humanist

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