Tag: war
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May 10, 2006 01:26 PM EDT --
I often write about the effects of war on our warfighters and the people who love them. But the subject "often leaves me feeling depleted of hope," a reader wrote. "How do you stay hopeful?" . . . more
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April 12, 2006 05:20 PM EDT --
Every time Private Luigi Pratt called home from Iraq, he could tell something was wrong. His wife Beth had sunk into a clinical depression, on the verge of suicide. From 6,000 miles away, Luigi, a trained . . . more
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June 08, 2006 08:16 AM EDT --
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaeda leader in Iraq who waged a terror campaign of suicide bombings and beheadings of hostages, has been killed in a U.S. airstrike.
What great news to hear upon awakening. . . . more
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August 10, 2006 06:49 AM EDT --
The Associated Press reports the U.S. government has raised the threat warning to red, the highest level, for commercial flights from Britain to the United States in response to a terror plot in London: . . . more
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December 26, 2006 02:14 PM EST --
Competition has been fierce this year for the fifteenth annual P.U.-litzer Prizes.
Many can plausibly lay claim to stinky media performances, but only . . . more
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August 12, 2006 02:02 PM EDT --
If you've read or watched the news over the past two days, you've unquestionably learned there was a terrorist plot uncovered in Britain. The plot allegedly involved terrorists who would . . . more
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August 16, 2006 07:12 PM EDT --
By now, we know George W. Bush and his administration have repeatedly used heightened terror alerts to push administration failures and scandals off the front page.
Similarly, Bush's handlers have . . . more
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March 28, 2006 05:43 PM EST --
Another sighting of a ridiculous religious protest. These folks have appeared this time in Grand Ledge, Michigan after appearances at three other Michigan funerals. They have been sighted . . . more
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June 15, 2006 09:25 AM EDT --
"I am Saoud. They call me Rabbit."
In the chow hall on Forward Operating Base (FOB) Diamondback in Mosul, a small, friendly Iraqi man in a black turtleneck sits down next to an American soldier . . . more
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April 14, 2006 10:27 AM EDT --
Six retired generals, some of whom served in the current Iraq war, are calling for Donald Rumsfeld to resign his post at the Pentagon. They claim he mismanaged the war, and micro-manages operations. They . . . more
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May 29, 2006 06:53 PM EDT --
People who are concerned about the state of the U.S. news media in 2006 might pause to consider those who have lost their lives in the midst of journalistic neglect, avoidance and bias.
We remember that . . . more
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June 12, 2006 03:05 PM EDT --
The scheduled speech by Sen. Hillary Clinton at the "Take Back America 2006" conference in Washington on June 13 is likely to intensify discussion about her relationship with the progressive . . . more
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August 23, 2006 12:30 PM EDT --
A N.Y. Times/CBS News poll released August 21 reveals that for the first time a majority of Americans (51%) no longer see a link between the war in Iraq and Washington's broader anti-terrorism efforts, . . . more
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July 17, 2006 12:54 PM EDT --
American Forces Press Service reports Taliban extremists attacked Afghan and coalition security forces with machine-gun fire from inside a hospital, which the terrorists were using for cover:
Despite . . . more
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June 08, 2006 08:50 AM EDT --
This morning at 7:30am EDT, President Bush announced that Abu Musab al Zarqawi was killed by a US air strike near Baquba, a cause for much celebration by all involved in the fight against al Qaeda . . . more
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April 08, 2006 12:47 PM EDT --
The AFP has gotten wind of an upcoming article in the New Yorker exposing the Bush administration's plan to use extensive bombing, particularly nuclear bunker busters, against Iran.
Participants in . . . more
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October 18, 2006 08:21 PM EDT --
Instead of coming home, he's dead
By Katie McDevitt, Tribune
October 17, 2006
If all had gone as planned, Sgt. Nicholas Sowinski would have been home by now, his mission in Iraq complete. But . . . more
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October 22, 2006 06:21 PM EDT --
We all have a hard time admitting errors, and doing so in public is even harder. But, when you have significant influence on the future of the U.S. and the world, it becomes even more important. . . . more
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September 06, 2006 11:33 AM EDT --
Rumsfeld and Cheney have recently accused the 65% of Americans who oppose the war as appeasers of terrorists. This is mind-blowing hypocrisy. After Saddam poison-gassed 300,000 of his Kurdish citizens . . . more
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October 03, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
According to the World Health Organization, 14 people have died of cholera in Iraq in the past six weeks. More than 2,200 cases have been reported in Kirkuk since mid-August and cases of the disease have . . . more
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