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Day in and day out, al-Katie Quric rattles the skeleton of the Abu Ghraib prison affair. In the middle of a war, Botox Nancy Pelosi calls the Commander-In-Chief incompetent, and Terry "The 18 Million Dollar Man" McAuliffe rushes to agree with her. Chappaquiddick Ted Kennedy bloviates about Iraq as "George Bush's Vietnam". The Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) pull out all the stops to politicize the war, and defeat President Bush. They've run "campaign finance reform" over like roadkill, and are talking about jimmying their upcoming Boston nominating convention to beat the system. Fine. You want to...

Amazing Bush Secret Kept With Iraq Visit Nov 28, 6:30 AM (ET By TERENCE HUNT President Bush holds up turkey during a surprise visit to troops at Baghdad airport Thursday, Nov. 27, 2003. ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) - Three hours from landing on a high-risk visit to Baghdad, President Bush was most anxious about keeping it a secret. "I was fully prepared to turn this baby around, come home," Bush said later aboard Air Force One. To everyone's amazement the secrecy held. The world did not learn that Bush had spent 2 1/2 hours Thursday on a Thanksgiving Day...

Iraqi officer reveals army chaos The Republican Guard did not offer as much resistance as anticipated A colonel in Iraq's Republican Guard says he received few orders from the country's leaders during the war. Speaking from his home in a prosperous area of Baghdad, he told the BBC's Andrew Gilligan that the coalition bombardment of Iraq badly affected troop morale, with soldiers wanting to desert every day. In one of the first insights into how the elite Republican Guard has acted during the war, he said Iraq's military leaders only agreed to fight the war in the first place because,...

About two dozen Capital High School students stood in a courtyard and flashed peace signs Thursday while their angry classmates shouted “war” and pelted them with cartons of chocolate milk. The heated confrontation lasted about 15 minutes. Students from both sides were disciplined and may face suspensions. The war protesters left classes 10 minutes early, hoping their courtyard gathering would draw attention and alert students that “business shouldn’t go on as usual.” “I’m pro truth,” said Emily Basile, an 11th-grade student who helped to organize the protest. Many students taunted the protesters, calling them “hippies” and stripping them of the...

efreedomnews         WAR ON TERRORISM - AN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE Shock & AweJonathan Rhodes6 March 2003Shock & Awe: This is not a sound bite invented by yellow journalists seeking larger than life headlines - but they do love to use it that way. Shock & Awe is the military operational doctrine to be applied in Iraq.Based upon Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance, published by National Defense University in 1996, and Rapid Dominance: A Force for All Seasons, published by the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies in 1998, this doctrine is a construct and concept for applying force with...