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Medics Testify to Fallujah’s Horrors

Medics Testify to Fallujah’s Horrors Navy Corpsmen Treated Unusually Devastating Injuries at Field Hospital By Jackie SpinnerWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, November 24, 2004; Page A15 FALLUJAH, Iraq — The first time Jose Ramirez saw a human body ripped apart by … Continue reading

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Federal Judge Blocks Vote Counting in Ohio

Recount Can Wait, Federal Judge RulesFrom Times Wire ReportsNovember 24, 2004 A federal judge in Toledo denied a request by third-party presidential candidates who wanted to force a recount of Ohio ballots before the official count was finished. Judge James … Continue reading

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PTSD and my Iraq Homecoming

Nightmare #1 I am in command of a four-vehicle convoy in Iraq.  We are skirting the edge of a town on our way back to our camp after having performed a mission elsewhere.  My vehicles are unarmored HMMWV’s mounted with … Continue reading

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Government Accountability Office (GAO) to Investigate 2004 Election Irregularities

Government Accountability Office to Conduct Investigation of 2004 Election Irregularities WASHINGTON — November 23 — Reps. John Conyers, Jr., Jerrold Nadler, Robert Wexler, Robert Scott, and Rush Holt announced today that, in response to their November 5 and 8 letters … Continue reading

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Ohio Democrats joins recount effort

Ohio Dems joins recount effort Keith Olbermann (Bloggermann), November 21, 2004 | 5:51 p.m. ET SECAUCUS— The headline might be a little expansive since the national headquarters has not yet echoed it, but it’s still pretty impressive as it is: … Continue reading

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Washington Post Editorial Board Slams Gonzales’ Record

Mr. Gonzales’s Record Washington Post Editorial BoardMonday, November 22, 2004; Page A18 Investigations have determined that some U.S. interrogators who tortured Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison reasonably believed that their actions had been authorized by a memorandum from … Continue reading

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Misfire: Senator Santorum Lives in Virginia, but Represents Pennsylvania

Editorial: Santorum, R-Va. / Is the senator an ‘inhabitant’ of Pennsylvania? The Penn Hills School District asked Sen. Rick Santorum a $38,000 question. That is whether his children are residents of the municipality to the point that their educations should … Continue reading

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Federal Money for Veterans Healthcare Falls $1.2 Billion Short

Groups Disappointed by Veteran Health Aid WASHINGTON  (AP) – Veterans’ health care got a lot of attention in the just-concluded election campaign, but the Republican-led Congress is not devoting as much money to it as veterans groups and even some … Continue reading

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U.S. ELECTION: Democracy in Question

U.S. ELECTION Democracy in QuestionJohn Zogby, president of the polling firm Zogby International, told IPS he has been calling it “the Armageddon election” for about a year. Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader believes the Republican Party was able to “steal … Continue reading

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Walter Reed Hospital stops accepting ambulance patients due to Iraq War casualties

Casualties up at military hospitals U.S. facilities undergo ‘very intense’ week as war-wounded stream in BY JAMES W. CRAWLEY MEDIA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE Saturday, November 20, 2004 WASHINGTON – Injured Marines and soldiers wounded during the intense fighting in Fallujah … Continue reading

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