in the past seven months, at least 11 soldiers and three Marines have committed suicide in Iraq, military officials say. That is an annual rate of 17 per 100,000. The Navy also is investigating one possible suicide. And about a dozen other Army deaths are under investigation and could include suicides.

Identical letters signed by different soldiers describing their accomplishments in Iraq (news - web sites) have been appearing in newspapers across the United States.

America believes that up to $3 billion of Saddam Hussein's loot is stashed away in Syrian government-controlled banks, a senior US official said yesterday. It has asked Damascus to surrender the money

If Syria does not meet the conditions, Bush could choose among six penalties: banning exports; prohibiting U.S. companies from doing business in Syria; blocking Syrian airline flights to the United States; freezing Syrian assets in the United States; reducing diplomatic contacts; and restricting Syrian diplomats.

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) said the United States has "kowtowed to an undeserving Syrian regime," and passage of the bill sends a message that "no one in Washington is fooled anymore."

arnie... According to the article, after the actor had bedded the woman, he picked up a phone and, claiming he was dialling his lawyer to reschedule an appointment, asked her to take the receiver. It turned out the number he dialled was her husband's, and while she held the phone, he yelled into it these words : "I just fukked her! I just fukked her!"

Bush Swears He'll Hunt Down Osama and Saddam, But Says He Can't Find a Treasonous Betrayer in His Own Administration Because It's Too Big

Tensions mounted in Venezuela Monday after bombings rocked the capital and an ally of Presi-dent Hugo Chavez accused the CIA of backing opponents trying to oust the beleaguered leader.

Four Internet Web sites operated by two extremist Jewish groups have been included by the State Department on its list of "foreign terrorist organizations" — the first time the list has been extended to include Internet sites.

""They're still regularly shooting at us and using vehicle incendiary devices. It's quite a harsh environment. The lads have to keep on their toes," he said.

``I'm asserting very clearly that they misled America,'' Kerry said on ABC's ``This Week'' news program. ``I think the president and Vice President Cheney should be apologizing to America,'' he added.
``We have a fraudulent coalition, and I use the word fraud,'' Kerry said

I am trying to speak out and let the Americans know that they are sending us to be slaughtered. If you don’t mind I am going to cut through all the niceties and get down to why I am going against every oath I took and giving you this interview.

while they were screaming out ‘Support Our Troops’ the current regime makers were fu..ing the military and veterans out of almost every social program and non essential service that would make life easier.”

if I could I would go back in the past a few months, I would go AWOL or turn conscientious objector on them, but it’s too late for that now.”

The Americans have a way to go to reach the exalted Israeli standards of evil, but once collective punishment becomes accepted practice there is no end to the horrors that are possible.

condi is a tremendously enthusiastic, if not particularly gifted, liar, having lied about 9-11 and the supposed inability of anyone to predict it, the justifications for the war on Iraq, the Niger uranium story and how it got into the state of the union address, and most recently, of how Rumsfeld was aware of his upcoming effective demotion (a lie revealed by Rumsfeld himself).
Rice has been rumored to be in line to replace Colin Powell when he resigns in disgust, but I don't see why she would accept such a demotion. In her current status as national security adviser, she is the most powerful person in the White House after Cheney, and Cheney's star appears to be fading fast.

Using the Nixon Tapes — the gift that will forever keep on giving — Mann found Nixon one night fretting about "the Rumsfeld problem."

Well, folks, it looks like the all powerful Maha Rushie, The Doctor Of Democracy, The Dean Of The Institute Of Conservative Studies and so on turns out to be a weakling no different then those poor souls he has viciously criticized for years. Pray for this fake, phony, fraud, hypocrite devoted ditto heads, as he never did and never will for the less fortunate among us.


And isn't it interesting how Rush joins Bill Bennett as a discredited pillar of conservative thought after being publicly exposed as addicts of things they advised — nay, hammered — America about. Plus George Bush the boozehound and cokehead and Bill "I didn't inhale" Clinton, and how many other alcoholic and drug addicts are in political life passing laws to harshly punish other people for the stuff they themselves loved to do in secret!

Rush Limbaugh, on drugs:
"There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country.
"And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them.
"And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."
"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff.
"The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."

Ashcroft himself is not above using this technique to lump those who disagree with him in with the terrorists to thereby discourage debate. Recall his statement, three months after Sept. 11: "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists — for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies."
Americans are "freer today than at any time in the history of human freedom."

Schwarzennegger drafted a comprehensive energy policy, which can be found at ( http://www.joinarnold.com/en/agenda/#C1) that went unnoticed for much of his campaign during the recall election. He said he wants to eliminate public oversight on future power supply contracts the state signs with energy companies and adopt a design plan for deregulating California’s electricity market from other states that restructured its electricity markets, such as Texas, New Jersey and Maryland.

One of Schwarzenegger’s boldest moves, however, will be to enter into quick settlements with about a dozen energy companies accused of manipulating the state’s electricity market during the height of the state’s energy crisis two years ago, aides to Schwarzenegger said Wednesday.

For three years, California has been engaged in a costly legal battle against dozens of energy companies it said ripped off the state by purposely withholding much-needed electricity from consumers, creating an artificial shortage while boosting the companies’ profits.

Federal regulators ordered electricity refunds for California totalling about $3.3 billion, but Davis said the state deserves at least $9 billion and “not a penny less.”