Yearly Archives: 2005

Homeless vets get heroes’ funeral BY EMILY NGO Staff Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times, Wednesday, August 17, 2005 From the procession of uniformed officers to the solemn rendition of taps, the double funeral Tuesday of U.S. Army veterans Harold Beison Jr. and … Continue reading →

Continued violence claimed the lives of four American soldiers today, the military said. They were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in the northern city of Samarra this morning. No other details were made available. Today’s violence follows a deadly … Continue reading →

SEVEN months into George W. Bush’s second term, it is clear that whatever his expansive second Inaugural Address may have promised, American foreign policy has taken a decidedly pragmatic turn. In practice, the Bush administration has recently begun to pursue … Continue reading →

It looks increasingly as if President Bush may have been off by 74 years in his assessment of Iraq. By deposing the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, Bush assumed he would bring Iraq to its 1787 moment — the crafting of … Continue reading →

PRESIDENT BUSH HAS so far fended off Cindy Sheehan, a grieving mother demanding to know the “noble purpose” of her son’s death in Iraq. However, Bush has been forced to address the existence of the antiwar constituency for perhaps the … Continue reading →

Leak Disputes Government’s Allegations into Killing of Innocent Subway Rider in London Leak disputes Menezes death story; Leaked documents appear to contradict the official account of how police mistook a Brazilian man for a suicide bomber and shot him. The … Continue reading →

Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq who has set up a vigil near President Bush’s ranch, said Tuesday that she was “very disturbed” that a local resident had mowed down hundreds of small crosses bearing the … Continue reading →

US veterans’ invisible wounds   By Richard Allen Greene, BBC News, August 16, 2005  Nearly 2,000 US troops have been killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, and tens of thousands wounded. But many have found themselves dealing with psychological … Continue reading →