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GIs in Iraq quagmire: They wont be home for the holidays

December 17, 2004

Not even in their dreams will the 138,000 U.S. soldiers trapped in George W. Bush’s Iraq nightmare be home for Christmas. Instead Bush plans to increase troop levels to 150,000 by extending the soldiers’ tours. Even...

Outrageous!

December 3, 2004 By Susan Webb

Halliburton bilks gov’t for billions in Iraq, then loses one-third of property Outrageous! That is what many are calling the war profiteering by U.S. corporations who have flocked into Iraq. In particular, Halliburton Corp., which Vice...

Call to stop IRS probe of NAACP

November 19, 2004

WASHINGTON — Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) has asked President Bush to “call off the dogs at the IRS” by terminating the tax agency’s probe of the NAACP. Rangel co-signed an Oct. 29 letter to IRS Commissioner...

Every day were in Iraq, situation gets worse

November 19, 2004 By Susan Webb

In the wake of the U.S. assault on Fallujah, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, called for investigation of possible violations of international laws on treatment of civilians and war prisoners in...

Fallujah has become like hell

November 12, 2004 By Susan Webb

As 10-15,000 U.S. troops, accompanied by warplanes, tanks, heavy machine guns and cannons, waged a massive assault on Fallujah, a reporter described one residential neighborhood as “a wasteland of shattered glass and rubble, with smoke filling...