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I think it would be a shame to kill or even jail Baghdad Bob, There are people who would pay good money to have him in the US. Let freepers rise to the occasion. What is the perfect second career for Baghdad Bob? 1)Replace any anchor at either NPR or PBS. Bill Moyers with a beret? They'd never know the difference. 2)DNC Chairman. Replacing the ranting and raving Terry McAuliffe would be perfect. They are both pathological liars. Perfect. 3)Hollywood would welcome Baghdad Bob with open arms. Replace Jack Valenti as Hollywood lobbyist? Maybe do William Holden's role in a...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's information minister Monday denied U.S. troops had stormed Baghdad, declaring: "Be assured Baghdad is safe, secure and great." "They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind," Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf said. "There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad at all." Sahhaf, at a rooftop news conference amid a crowd of foreign reporters, said amid sirens and clouds of dusts that Saddam Hussein's forces had given invading...

Baghdad Bob says "U.S. Forces are not in Baghdad...er...wait a minute."

In honor of our Freed and the men and women who risked their lives to rescue her! Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Army Photo Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Private Photo Good Morning. This is the Daily Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - LIVE THREAD. It is designed for general conversation about the events of the day. In depth discussion of events should be left to individual threads - but links to the threads or other articles is highly encouraged. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of...

<p>March 29, 2003 -- U.S. warplanes continued their assault on the Iraqi leadership yesterday, blowing away the Baghdad headquarters of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party with Tomahawk missiles.</p> <p>The precision strike took place shortly after the United States unleashed two monster 4,700-pound bunker-buster bombs on a communications site inside the Iraqi capital.</p>

The Central Intelligence Agency's ability to gather intelligence in the Middle East has been injured by reforms triggered in 1995 by then-Rep. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.), members of the House Intelligence Committee said last week. In the wake of disclosures by Torricelli that a Guatemalan colonel linked to the murder of an American was on the CIA payroll, the agency fired one-third of its informants - roughly 1,000 "assets" - and instituted new rules on the recruitment of sources. Some of the assets were fired because of poor production, but others were fired for criminal activity that could have proved ...

<p>September 17, 2002 -- NEW Jersey voters already concerned about Sen. Robert Torricelli's low ethical threshold now learn that he's been a paid shill for a group the government identifies as a terrorist organization. Called on this by his Republican opponent, Douglas Forrester, in a debate Thursday, Torricelli said the group had been pulled from the State Department's global terror list and given a clean bill of health. Not true.</p>