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...lugging your bags through the airport to catch a flight on a commercial airline, this should warm your heart. Since 2001, Bush cabinet secretaries and top agency officials have flown on cushier and costlier private aircraft at least 125 times to over 300 locations. And not surprisingly, a political squabble has broken out between Republicans and Democrats over whether the taxpayers' bill for this more convenient form of travel - over $1.5 million - is justified...
...Rather, most of Rich’s examples of Bush administration propaganda—everything from its shameless parading of the Jessica Lynch rescue to the inherently staged nature of Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” landing on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln—have all been reported before one way or another, whether through the New York Times or “The Daily Show...
Could Memorial Church one day find itself in the shadow of a doomed aircraft? Could someone posing as a freshman detonate a bomb in the middle of Ec 10 lecture in Sanders Theater...
...military statement said the raid was directed at a "top illegal armed group commander directing widespread death squad activity throughout eastern Baghdad." At least 4 people were killed and 20 injured in the raid, which included air strikes from U.S. aircraft. It is unclear whether the targeted militia leader was captured. Although the U.S. said Iraqi special forces played the lead role in the raid, al-Maliki claimed the Iraqi government had not been consulted...
...private think tank in Washington, has just compiled totals for the 2005 major weapons exports that 28 nations have been reporting to the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms since May. The U.S. was the leader last year with 1,724 tanks, armored combat vehicles, heavy artillery, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles and missile launchers sent to 22 countries. Russia, which had been in and out of second place for several years, ran a close second with almost 1,000 major conventional weapons systems exported...