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In recent months, the major foreign policy issue of the 2000 presidential election campaign has been military readiness, with Vice President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush each addressing the subject. Governor Bush has accused the Clinton Administration of military neglect, referring to the U.S. armed forces as "a military in decline." 1 Vice President Gore, on the other hand, has countered that "Our military is the strongest and the best in the entire world." 2 While there are clear signs that readiness is a problem for the U.S. military, Al Gore is factually correct when he contends...

Pentagon possesses three disks of photos, one of which includes some brief video clips. Many of the photos are redundant, and some have little to do with Iraqi detainees but show sex between U.S. soldiers... Pentagon officials prevailed at least temporarily in their insistence that the administration not immediately release the images, which include the forced masturbation of a detainee...

IN THE MILITARY Just say 'no' to pregnant soldiers? Petition asks Bush to revise Clinton-era 'social engineering' policies Posted: September 26, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Diana Lynne © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com As the death toll of American soldiers continues to rise in Iraq, one civilian woman on the sidelines here at home continues her battle to strengthen the military by taking her case to the commander in chief, and she's launched a petition drive to catch his attention. Question: Why was a 7-pound baby boy born aboard a warship in the Gulf war zone near Kuwait in May? Question: Why...

Eight years of Clinton administration military cutbacks have left the U.S. Air Force spread so thin that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been forced to accept help from the Norwegian Air Force to protect the country from another 9-11-style terrorist attack. Citing the "scarcity of a number of (U.S. Air Force) assets," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced Tuesday that he and Norwegian Defense Minister Kristin Devold were in basic agreement on the unprecedented plan to have foreign pilots guard U.S. air space. "We have offered the F-16's to the U.S., and the signal is that they might be needed,"...