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  • Imagine the Year, 1943

    12/02/2003 3:46:49 PM PST · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 35 replies · 2,118+ views
    EIB ^ | 12/2/03 | Rush
    RUSH: "Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, fresh from her own trip to Iraq, accused President Bush yesterday of conducting the war by a political calendar, saying he had dispatched the wrong mix of troops to secure the country and that victory is not certain. In an interview on The Today Show yesterday," portions of which we played, "Hillary said that her war zone visit last weekend with not only the military but civilian American representatives revealed that, 'clearly what we're doing now is not an effective strategy. Success at rebuilding Iraq,' she said, 'can only come with the involvement of the...
  • Forty fighters held in Iraq after US troops killed

    09/19/2003 3:29:19 AM PDT · by kattracks · 40 replies · 313+ views
    Reuters | 9/19/03 | Rosalind Russell
    TIKRIT, Iraq, Sept 19 (Reuters) - U.S. forces captured 40 suspected Iraqi guerrillas in a night-long battle near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit after three U.S. soldiers were killed in an ambush, a U.S. commander said on Friday. Backed by attack helicopters, U.S. troops battled guerrillas until first light after the 4th Infantry Division soldiers were ambushed and killed in part of a series of coordinated attacks east and west of the Tigris river late on Thursday. Colonel James Hickey said U.S. forces encircled an area of farmland on the east side of the river near Tikrit and captured...