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4 hours ago By CHRIS RODKEY, Associated Press Writer Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, demonstrates the set ...More... SPOKANE, Wash. - Call it the burning Bush. The co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream is on the road, towing a 12-foot-tall effigy of President Bush with fake flames shooting out of the pants. Ben Cohen says it's an acceptable way to point out what he calls the president's lies. "In a polite society, you don't go up to a person and look at them in the face and say, 'You're a liar,'" Cohen said in a...

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I need positive, verifiable, documented, and referenceable information about the impact we are having in Iraq and any other geographies where we are focusing our national energy. Over the last few months I have become increasingly engaged in discussions about world events with my loving but misguided parents. To this end, I have become very good at keeping them on-point and presenting them with a solid "alternate view" of the world. This has been especially challenging since they are about as far left as you can get without drowning. One of them is intrigued by what I have to say...