One Way to Recoup That $87 Billion

Charge wounded soldiers for their hospital meals. From Stars & Stripes: Troops wounded in combat in the nation’s war on terrorism are being handed more than just discharge papers when they leave military hospitals — some also are getting a bill. At a daily rate of...

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Feds Fed Up with Being Shown Up

So they're taking it out on ABC: In a clash between security and the First Amendment, federal authorities are threatening criminal charges against ABC News reporters who smuggled harmless depleted uranium into the country for a second time during an investigation of...

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Attention Bloggers!

I am planning to put a link to the Blog on the front page within the next few days. Please prepare for it going live by Monday of next week, and hopefully we will have at least a couple of entries a day. Please write me back at egarris2@antiwar.com with any...

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Only the Smokers Shall Survive

If Al Qaeda executes this nefarious plot (according to D.C., anyway): "References to nicotine and solanine [found in potatoes] appear in numerous terrorist training manuals and documents seized in Afghanistan," the FBI said in its weekly bulletin to law enforcement...

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Iraq – or Kosovo?

Chris Floyd of the Moscow Times had a column last week about the occupation forces' use of Saddam's secret police to govern the "new" Iraq. Floyd's style is so cutting edge, I would hardly be surprised if Imperial officials actually bled after reading this stuff....

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This Week’s Hellraiser Award Goes to. . .

This fellow from North Carolina: Donald Sullivan of Hampstead, a 23-year-veteran of the Army and Air Force, sued the U.S. government, President Bush and several members of Congress to stop what he termed an "illegal war." The civil lawsuit, filed in March in U.S....

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Money isn’t everything

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...

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