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...from clear that the Iraqis see it that way - even a poll commissioned by the Coalition Provisional Authority confirms that a majority of Iraqis now want the U.S. to leave immediately. A growing number of U.S. officers in Iraq are also stepping forward with the blunt assessment that the war can't be won. That's not a conclusion that goes down well at home. Forget the lessons of history; this is America, exceptional, somehow immune. In the end, though every nation that has ever claimed stewardship over another's destiny (including the United States in Vietnam) has claimed...
...signs abound. Some 75 terrorism suspects, including three juveniles, have been released since mid-November. Meanwhile, the Pentagon announced that the circumstances of each Guantanamo detainee will get an annual review, helping blunt criticism that prisoners are being held in total legal limbo. Officials have also formally charged two captives in preparation for the first military tribunals, suggesting some due process is on the horizon. Several captives in Guantanamo have met with lawyers, as have Yaser Esam Hamdi and Jose Padilla, two U.S. citizens held as enemy combatants in South Carolina. Their cases are set to be heard next week...
...filmgoer will watch a movie that they loathe, notice a critical consensus surrounding it and redirect their animosity towards the “out-of-touch” critics. The critics will respond in kind with an admonition of the masses’ susceptibility to Big Hollywood, making blunt attempts to simultaneously assert and conceal their claims to intellectual superiority...
Capuano frequently garnered laughs from the audience with his blunt and occasionally sarcastic tone...
...with it." In recent months U.S. forces have claimed some success in subduing resistance in other Sunni-triangle hot spots. That includes Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, where the military responded to attacks by demolishing homes and cordoning off the entire city with barbed wire. The military has avoided such blunt tactics in Fallujah, a town 35 miles west of Baghdad that has long been prone to unrest and intense tribal rivalries. Even under Saddam, locals resisted control: the town erupted in murderous riots in 1997 when Saddam arrested a prominent general from the area. Since Saddam's removal, Fallujah...