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The Telegraph also ran an article by Richard Perle, a former U.S. assistant secretary of defense, attacking British, French, and German leaders for trying to influence the Senate vote through an article in the New York Times . "Why didn't the Senate congratulate its friends [Blair, Chirac, and Schröder] on their wise and timely counsel?"
The queen had sent her a telegram to congratulate her.
Senators congratulate themselves for conscience, bipartisanship, and fidelity to the Constitution.
I say this not to congratulate myself (well, not merely to congratulate myself) but to ask why St. Martin's Press, which announced yesterday that it was "suspending" publication of the book, was unable to make a similar determination before shipping 70,000 copies to book stores--copies that it has so far not recalled, by the way.
Again, let me congratulate you on your unanimous nomination for Inner Circle membership and urge you to accept this honor as soon as possible.