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White House reconsiders policy, options
BY BEN FELLER ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — While President Bush acknowledges the need for major changes in Iraq, he will not use this week's Iraq Study Group report as political cover for bringing troops home, his national security adviser said Sunday.
"We have not failed in Iraq," Stephen Hadley said as he made the talk show rounds. "We will fail in Iraq if we pull out our troops before we're in a position to help the Iraqis succeed."
But he added: "The president understands that we need to have a way forward in Iraq that is more successful."
The White House readied for an important week in the debate over Iraq: Bush planned a meeting Monday with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the Shiite leader of the largest bloc in Iraq's parliament, and awaited the recommendations Wednesday from the bipartisan commission.
Yet his administration, hoping to find a new way ahead in Iraq, found itself on the defensive from the second recent leak of an insider's memo on Iraq in a week.
The latest, first reported in Sunday's New York Times, showed that Donald H. Rumsfeld called for a "major adjustment" in U.S. tactics on Nov. 6 — the day after an election that cost Republicans the Congress and Rumsfeld his job as defense secretary.
Hadley played down the memo
as simply a laundry list of ideas rather than a call for a new course of action.
He said that Bush — just before a pivotal election — was not portraying a different sense of the war to the public than his own defense secretary was giving him in private.
The president "has said publicly what Rumfseld said, that things are not proceeding well enough or fast enough in Iraq." Hadley said.
Democrats did not buy that.
"The Rumfeld memo makes it quite clear that one of the greatest concerns is the political fallout from changing course here in the United States," said Sen. Joseph Biden, D-DeL, the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "The bottom line is there is no one, including the former secretary, who thought the policy the president continues to pursue makes any sense."
Bush has nominated Robert Gates to replace Rumsfeld. His confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee is on Tuesday.
As pressure builds for a new strategy, the report from the Iraq Study Group increasingly is viewed as perhaps clearing the way for a U.S. exit strategy in Iraq. Hadley, though, said the review will be just one factor the White House considers, along with views of congressional leaders, U.S. military commanders and the Iraqi government.
BY MEGHAN BARR ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mail still sent toWorld Trade Center
>> SEPT. 11
NEW YORK — It's the kind of holiday mail that have been tossed aside, discarded like any other piece of junk mail a special offer for a facial at a local spa.
Only the address on the letter no longer exists. And the woman the letter is addressed to died more than five years ago in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Hundreds of pieces of mail destined for the former trade center still arrive every day at a post office facing ground zero — the relics of the unfinished lives of Sept. 11 victims.
Telephone bills, insurance statements, wine club announcements, college alumni newsletters, even government checks populate the bundles of mail. Each bears the ZIP code once reserved exclusively for the twin towers: 10048.
"I guess sooner or later they'll realize the towers aren't back up," said letter carrier Seprina Jones Sims,
who handles the trade center mail. "I don't know when."
Some of the nation's most recognizable companies and organizations, from retailers to research hospitals, are among those sending the mail. Much of it seems to result from businesses not updating their bulk mailing lists, said U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman Pat McGovern.
The postal service declined to identify the senders and recipients of the letters according to policy. Several companies formerly housed
in the towers also declined comment.
The trade center mail meets varied fates once it arrives at the Church Street station.
A handful of companies pay for a service that forces the post office to hold the mail until a messenger picks it up. The rest of the mail travels various routes. Some will be returned to the sender, some will be forwarded to the company's current address and some will be sent to a Brooklyn recycling firm to be destroyed.
HEALTH
Organic-labeled salmon are not from the U.S.
BY LIBBY QUAID
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — If you buy salmon with an organic label, do not assume it is truly organic.
The round, green "USDA Organic" seal is not allowed on seafood. At least not yet.
If the label says organic, the fish are not from the United States. Rather, they come from countries where chemicals and antibiotics might be used to keep fish healthy.
not any better for you, and certainly not better for the environment," says Andrea Kavanagh, who heads the Pure Salmon Campaign for the National Environmental Trust.
Those who sell organic fish say the fish have been raised as naturally as possible and certified in other countries that recognize the organic designation.
"You're paying more for something that is not any different and
In the United States, an organic label has very specific meanings; depending on the product:
— Food animals cannot be given antibiotics or growth hormones.
—No pesticides, synthetic fertilizers or genetic engineering are
allowed.
—Farms must be certified by a government approved agent.
are sold in American supermarkets and restaurants, often with an organic label. The U.S. government says that is OK, even if chemicals or antibiotics are present.
"We don't have a standard for organic fish," says Barbara Robinson, head of the Agriculture Department's National Organic Program, which provides the "USDA Organic" seal.
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In other countries, the rules are not always so strict. For example, Europe allows antibiotics if an animal is sick. Also, organic salmon farmers can use a pesticide to control a vermin called sea lice.
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