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To the editor: Say it isn't so! The war in France is rapidly nearing a grim milestone. Car deaths are now closing in on the magic number of 10,000. How much longer can this quagmire go on? How much longer before the French admit defeat and pull out? Where's the United Nations? Isn't it time for a Security Council resolution and a peacekeeping force? But as we all know, it is President Bush's fault. Bush lied, cars fried.

FAIRFIELD, Ohio Two teenage boys charged with burning 20 small American flags set up in honor of a soldier who died from injuries sustained in Iraq have been sentenced to community service. A Butler County juvenile court judge ordered the two boys, aged 13 and 15, to complete 40 hours of community service at a Veterans of Foreign Wars post. The boys admitted to taking the flags from the yard and setting them afire under a car belonging to the soldier's sister-in-law. The vehicle was destroyed. The flags commemorated Army Private First Class Tim Hines of Fairfield, who died in...