Yearly Archives: 2006

Editorial: A Bad Leak

President Bush says he declassified portions of the prewar intelligence assessment on Iraq because he “wanted people to see the truth” about Iraq’s weapons programs and to understand why he kept accusing Saddam Hussein of stockpiling weapons that turned out … Continue reading

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White House admits Iraq WMDs error

The White House has acknowledged for the first time that a key moment in post-war Iraq, the declaration by George Bush that “we have found the weapons of mass destruction”, was based on intelligence known in Washington to be false. … Continue reading

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Retired US Iraq general demands Rumsfeld resign

 – A recently retired two-star general who just a year ago commanded a U.S. Army division in Iraq on Wednesday joined a small but growing list of former senior officers to call on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign. “I … Continue reading

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‘There was a little girl clinging on to her dead dad screaming her eyes out. We never had time to stop’

On one of the first days after we breached the border, our section went firm while the American gunships’ Cobra helicopters cleared a village. It was an awesome sight, but an hour or so after it was chaos as cars … Continue reading

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Iran Can Now Make glowing Mickey Mouse Watches

Despite all the sloppy and inaccurate headlines about Iran “going nuclear,” the fact is that all President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday was that it had enriched uranium to a measely 3.5 percent, using a bank of 180 centrifuges hooked … Continue reading

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Homeless no longer

The line between despair and hope can be strikingly thin. In Leo Morse’s case, it wasn’t much thicker than a bare mattress on the carpeted floor of a warm room he could call his own. Morse, an ex-Marine who’s been … Continue reading

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Taliban ‘hard to combat’ in Afghanistan, US military says

The US military said yesterday that increased militant violence in Afghanistan was proving ”very hard to combat” as separate attacks killed two police officers and a truck driver delivering food to coalition forces in a former Taliban stronghold in the … Continue reading

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Bush says disclosures showed truth on Iraq

President Bush told a Washington audience Monday that he had declassified intelligence information in 2003 to help the American public understand the basis for statements the administration had made about Iraq before the start of the war. “I wanted people … Continue reading

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Vets get aid to shake war

Josh Dobbelstein drives as close to the middle of the road as he can. Over on the side of the road, he’s more vulnerable to the enemy intent on killing him by hiding bombs stuffed in plastic bags or the … Continue reading

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Airmen Get New Skills for War

For a service usually stationed so far from the front lines that it has earned the sobriquet “Chair Force,” some of the scenes now unfolding at the Air Force’s primary training base almost seem blasphemous. New recruits are being trained … Continue reading

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