Female GIs Report Rapes in Iraq War
37 seek aid after alleging sex assaults by U.S. soldiers
Nearly 30 percent of 202 female Vietnam veterans surveyed in 1990 said they experienced a sexual encounter "accompanied by force or threat of force," according to the Congressional Record. And a study of troops in the 1991 Persian Gulf War by Department of Veterans Affairs researchers found that 7 percent of surveyed women reported sexual assaults, while 33 percent reported sexual harassment.

So far exactly two people who spent time at Guantanamo have had access to due process -- and the government's record stands at 0 and 2.

By a complete coincidence, almost all the top USDA officials are former meat industry employees, consultants, and lawyers.

"No special rights for Christians"

Rehnquist poo-poos Scalia recusement request

The Bush administration intensified its defense of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act on Thursday, threatening to veto legislation in Congress that would scale back key provisions.

He also says the Pentagon figures don't include bases in Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar and Uzbekistan. Except for the one in Kosovo, those were all set up following the Sept. 11 attacks.

Somebody smarter than me says that investigations like this one, that pesky 9/11 one of ours and others in the pipeline that ultimately pit intelligence services against the administrations they serve, are the next big politically explosive thing. Don't know. Not sure what to look for, wouldn't know it if it peed on my leg.
We all knew it was going to be a lying cover-up job when Hutton allowed Blair another secret kick at the can to explain the lies in his government's testimony, and even more so when Blair announced he'd resign if he was criticized by Hutton (something we know he wouldn't have offered to do unless he knew the fix was in), but no one could possibly have foreseen that it would be this bad.

Referred to in internal Pentagon messages as the "spring offensive," the operation would be driven by certain undisclosed events in Pakistan and across the region, sources said.
A source familiar with details of the plan said this is "not like a contingency plan for North Korea, something that sits on a shelf. This planning is like planning for Iraq. They want this plan to be executable, now."
A military source in Washington, D.C., said last week: "We are told we're going into Pakistan with Musharraf's help." Yet a large-scale offensive by U.S. forces within the nuclear-armed Islamic republic could be political dynamite for Musharraf.
Speaking on Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Musharraf again rejected the need for U.S. forces to enter Pakistan to search for bin Laden. "That is not a possibility at all," he said.

"In the days and in the years that are to come we shall work for a just and honorable peace, a durable peace, as today we work and fight for total victory in war. We can and we will achieve such a peace."
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1945

"With God's help, the future of mankind will be assured in a world of justice, harmony, and peace."
President Harry S. Truman, 1949

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

"Our policy has been one of patience and restraint, as befits a peaceful and powerful nation, which leads a worldwide alliance.
President John F. Kennedy, 1962

"Will you join in the battle to make it possible for all nations to live in enduring peace ? as neighbors and not as mortal enemies?
President Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1964

"I wrote out some of my goals for my second term as president. Let me read them to you: To make it possible for our children, and for our children's children, to live in a world of peace. ..."
President Richard M. Nixon, 1973

"I pledge an uninterrupted and sincere search for peace."
President Gerald Ford, 1974

"America [is] a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world."
President Jimmy Carter, 1979

"We need to preserve the peace."
President Ronald Reagan, 1984

"We must ensure that America stands before the world united, strong, at peace, and fiscally sound."
President George H. W. Bush, 1989

"We will be partners for peace."
President Bill Clinton, 1994

"I look forward to doing what is right to make the world more peaceful."
President George W. Bush, 2001