Article: Baker dons top hat for Moscow embassy debate

WASHINGTON The unrest of congressional Republicans over the Bush administration's opposition to tearing down the new, bug-riddled U.S. embassy building in Moscow was summed up in floor debate by Rep. Robert Walker, the astringent conservative from Pennsylvania.

" . . . it sounds like the State Department is more afraid of the Congress than the Soviets," Walker declared. There is indeed little doubt that administration policy on this important security issue is guided by a desire to please the Congressman who holds the State Department's purse strings: Rep. Neal Smith, a 17-term Democrat from Iowa.

Here is the extreme example of the be-nice policy assiduously followed by James A. Baker ...

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