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Rumsfeld comments on the recent attack on an American helicopter, which so far has resulted in the death of 16 soldiers: "In a long, hard war, we're going to have tragic days, as this is," Rumsfeld told ABC's "This Week." "But they're necessary. They're part of a war...

The Washington Post reports that the Coalition has brought the flat tax to Iraq:It took L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Baghdad, no more than a stroke of the pen Sept. 15 to accomplish what eluded the likes of publisher Steve Forbes, former representative...

After revealing serious holes in the gov't airport security program, the college student responsible is not receiving any thanks from the protectors of our skies -- the TSA:Deputy TSA Administrator Stephen McHale said Monday's court action "makes clear that renegade...

Give it more money: U.S. Posts Record $374.22 Bln Budget Gap ...and it fails more often: Box Cutters on Planes 5 Weeks, FBI Says

I am not sure the Black Flag (teenage anarchists) knows that their standard "upside down flag" has real meaning: * United States Code (The Collected Laws of the United States) Title 4, Chapter 1 - The Flag Sec. 8. Respect for flag SubSec. (a) The flag should never be...

Iraq War Swells Al Qaeda's Ranks, Report Says Can't say I'm surprised...in fact, I and many other critics of the war on Iraq used just this very scenario as an argument against intervention. I suspected that those who supported the march to war understood that this...

A reader directed me to an article that shows the wounded count I keep at Antiwar.com may be "way off base." From the Army Public Affairs: As of Sept. 16, Landstuhl[U.S. base in Germany] has treated approximately 6,000 service members from Operation Iraqi Freedom and...

From "turning-tables" -- a blog written by a US soldier in Baghdad:at the doors of the palace there are filipino guards in tan uniforms...i think they are part of a civilian security company...brought in by the u.s....i recognize the uniforms...they had them in...

Brendan O'Neill writes:For all the claims about saboteurs bringing Iraq to its knees, it was the coalition's war that devastated Iraq. As the war was coming to an end in late April, the International Committee of the Red Cross claimed that: 'This country has...