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Running On Empty

Heading into the 2000 election, then-candidate George W. Bush blasted the Clinton administration’s 1990s deployments to places like Bosnia and Kosovo, saying they depleted our military’s readiness. “Our military is low on parts, pay...

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Bee Baw

Humanitarian workers speak of US gunmen firing at ambulances and civilians … The head of mission of a European humanitarian agency with staff in Falluja told BBC News Online that, according to his staff,...

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Iraq Contra

Iran-Contra involved a network of aides outsourcing U.S. foreign policy like a separate government to circumvent the separation of powers, by selling missiles to Iran to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. The Iraq war was...

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Shadow Of The Torturer

So King Bush has appointed the Torturer’s Friend John Negroponte as Ambassador to Iraq. While he was Ambassador in Honduras during the 1980s he shielded the Honduran military from fallout concerning their use of...

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Business Plan

[private] security costs could claim up to 25 percent of the $18 billion budgeted for reconstruction … that could delay or force the cancellation of billions of dollars worth of projects to rebuild schools,...

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Dereliction of Duty

Why mess with the Boston Globe’s original headline? Following an important meeting on Iraq war planning in late 2001, President Bush told the public that the discussions were about Afghanistan. He made no mention...

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Brits Staying On Sufferance

During an interview in Basra last week Brig Carter acknowledged that the Coalition’s presence in southern Iraq was entirely dependent on the goodwill of the local Shia Muslim leader, Sayid Ali al-Safi al-Musawi. He...

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Enjoyed His Own Product Just A Little Too Much?

McDonald’s Corp Chairman and Chief Executive Jim Cantalupo died of an apparent heart attack on Monday in Florida … Cantalupo, 60, died while attending a franchisee convention in Orlando … He also recognized the...

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Get ‘Em While They’re Soft

Cicadas are a low-carb, low-fat rare treat apparently best served sauteed in butter and parsley. Some, however, prefer to go more upscale: The soft-shelled cicada, it’s done just like a soft-shelled crab,” says executive...