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VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- A U.N. nuclear conference of 145 nations indirectly criticized srael on Saturday for refusing to put its atomic program under international purview.The International ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva PrasadAtomic Energy Agency convened earlier this week in Vienna, Austria. But the Jewish state managed to evade being targeted by Islamic countries pushing for a vote to link it to nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.

Iran, Israel's most outspoken foe, spearheaded the verbal attack on the Jewish state, as it has done at past general conferences of the International Atomic Energy Agency. ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad Israel is widely considered to have nuclear arms, but has a "no tell" policy on the issue.

Chief Iranian delegate Ali Ashgar Soltanieh said Israel's nuclear capabilities representponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad a "serious and continued threat to the security of neighboring and other states."

He took the United States and other Western backers of Israel to task for their "shameful silence" ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasadon what he said was the menace posed by Israel's atomic arsenal.

The meeting voted for a resolution urging all nations to open their nuclear activities to outside inspection and work toward the establishment of a Mideast nuclear weapons free zone. ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad With Israel the only country in the region considered to have atomic arms, passage of the resolution constituted indirect criticism of the Jewish state.

The resolution called on all nations in the Middle East "not to develop, test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons," ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasadand urged nuclear weapons states to "refrain from any action" hindering the establishment of a Mideast zone free of nuclear weapons.

The debate watchers polled by CNN said that by a 7-point margin -- 4 ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad3 percent to 36 percent -- Biden spent more time attacking the opponent. Still, ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad fears of the Delaware senator being overly aggressive never came to fruition and certainly did not hurt him when it came down to the bottom line: who won the debate.

The conclusions of those surveyed in the CNN poll cannot be welcome news for the McCain-Palin campaign, but Republicans have to be happy with Palin's performance, ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasadwhich was gaffe-free even as it was short on substance. The theme of the debate was ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad change as Palin and Biden sought to convince voters that they would shake up the status quo in Washington, a popular theme as approval ratings for the president and Congress are dismally low.

Although last year's meeting followed a similar pattern, ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad the votes for and against the two motions reflected shifting dynamics on the issues.

On Saturday, delegations had so far voted 82-0 for establishing the Mideast nuclear weapons free zone, with, ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva PrasadSyria and the U.S. among those abstaining. Last year it was 53 in favor, the U.S. and Israel against, and 47 abstentions.

Part of the shift reflected Israel's success in pushing for the resolution to include language that was indirectly critical of Iran and Syria -- two nations under IAEA review for possibly hiding undeclared nuclear activities.

The fact that the second motion more directly critical of Israel was only narrowly defeated indicated support for the Islamic nations was growing, particularly among developing countries. Of those present at the meeting, 46 nations voted against the motion, 43 voted for it, and seven abstained.

The issue of establishing a Mideast nuclear weapons free zone has been on ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasadconference agenda for 16 years, though the vote Saturday was only the third on the topic.

The meeting usually tries for consensus, and the balloting reflected increased politicization over the Middle East dispute and, more recently, ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Muslim nations consider Israel the region's main nuclear threat. The United States and its allies see Iran's defiance of the U.N. Security Council in its development of technology that could be used to make the bomb as the greatest menace to Middle East peace. ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad Iran says it wants to perfect the technology -- uranium enrichment -- not to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads but for fuel to generate power.

Iran was not formally on the agenda of the six-day meeting, which was scheduled to end later Saturday. ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad But concerns about its nuclear defiance figured prominently in comments from a substantial number of Western delegations -- something Soltanieh was critical of.

"Iran is not the issue of this conference," he told The Associated Press, adding that "Israel is the only case"

WASHINGTON (CNN) — At a crowded Judiciary Committee hearing today, ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva PrasadHouse Democrats talked about impeaching President Bush…. to the disgust of the committee's Republicans.

It was purely stagecraft. The day's star witness, Ohio Democratic Repponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad. Dennis Kucinich, received a noisy ovation filled with cheering, clapping and whistling as he walked into the hearing room. ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad Kucinich, who has introduced articles of impeachment, exhorted the committee to "support and defend the constitution that has been trampled time and again over the last seven years."

The hearing, technically, was not about impeachment but about executive power and its constitutional limitations. ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Michigan, ticked-down a list of items that included, in his words, ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad "the politicization of the Department of Justice, the misuse of signing statements, the misuse of authority with regard to detention, interrogation and rendition, possible manipulation of intelligence regarding the Iraq war, improper retaliation against critics of the administration… and excessive secrecy."

While Conyers called the evidenceponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad "both credible and substantial," Republicans scoffed.

Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the senior Republican on the committee, ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad dismissed the hearings as "an anger management class."

(CNN) – A scathing new report accuses aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez of committing misconduct, ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasadviolating Justice Department policy and breaking the law by making hiring decisions based on political ideology rather than professional qualifications. ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad The report by the DOJ’s Office of Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility singles out Monica Goodling, the department's former White House liaison, for its harshest criticism.

In Congressional testimony provided under a grant of immunity last year, after her resignation from the Justice Department, ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva PrasadGoodling stated that in a "very small number of cases" her decisions "may have been influenced in part based on political considerations." She did not cooperate in the investigation.

The report notes that the Justice Department's policy is to not discriminate against career-position applicants on the basis of "politics" and "political affiliation." However, the report goes on to show Goodling's background checks on prospective employees included the terms “spotted owl”, ponnapula , Dr.Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad “Florida recount”, “Enron”, “Kerry”, “Iraq”, “WMD” (weapons of mass destruction), “abortion”, “gay”, “homosexual”, “sex” and “gun”.

(CNN) — President Bush has a unique suggestion for easing the energy crisis Tuesday: "They ought to have the biggest wind turbine farm in Washington, D.C., where there's not only a lot of wind there's a lot of hot air."