Krugman
-- Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." So George Bush declared on Sept. 20, 2001. But what was he saying? Surely he didn't mean that everyone was obliged to support all of his policies, that if you opposed him on anything you were aiding terrorists. Now we know that he meant just that.

the president of Poland ? which has roughly 2,500 soldiers in Iraq ? had this to say: "That they deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction, that's true. We were taken for a ride."

This week the Bush campaign unveiled an ad accusing John Kerry of, among other things, opposing increases in combat pay because he voted against an $87 billion appropriation for Iraq. Those who have followed this issue were astonished at the ad's sheer up-is-down-ism.

Now a new wave of unexpected horror, leishmaniasis, is arriving at WRAMC ? which has the only accredited leishmaniasis lab in the United States ? and its dedicated docs are burning the midnight oil to find a treatment. A model predicts that 1 percent to 4 percent of our soldiers in Iraq can expect to be hit by this potentially deadly parasite, delivered by the bite of infected sand flies as common in the Middle East as fleas on a wild dog.
So far, more than 500 soldiers have been diagnosed with ?The Leish.?