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...commanders say rebuilding places like Fallujah will happen only if the insurgency is contained. So don't expect U.S. troops to leave anytime soon. At a recent meeting, city council members pleaded with Lieut. Colonel Bill Mullen to let Fallujah police itself. But Mullen refused and demanded that council members stop turning a blind eye to insurgent activities. "If the security situation does not improve," Mullen said, "guess what? We're not going anywhere...
Until recently, the doubts about Bush from the right have focused on the mismanagement of the war rather than on the decision to go to war. But even before the Libby indictments, the wall of silence had been crumbling. First there was the Oct. 19 speech by Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, in which Wilkerson charged that a "cabal" of Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had "flummoxed" a President who is "not versed in international relations and not too much interested in them either." Even more stinging was the interview...
...Ryshelle M. McCadney ’07. “Kids do have a lot of insight and I’m glad that he collected all these responses.”Underwood said his own childhood was deeply influenced by his parents. His father is a retired army colonel and any time he was leaving the house, his mother made sure to remind him that “you represent your father, his rank, and his country.” Underwood said he felt a lot of pressure but that it kept him from being intimidated by people...
...Peak Oil" theory fits nicelyon a cocktail napkin. Its curve looks like this: Colonel Edwin Drake starts pumping crude in Pennsylvania in 1859. We've been pumping faster and faster ever since. Sooner or later, on this finite planet of ours, it just has to run out. U.S. production peaked in the 1970s. Global production will soon be on the downside of the same dismal curve...
...requesting additional support from the U.S. in the form of eight military helicopters that could ferry aid to the quake region. In the Indian Kashmirian mountain village of Skee, residents received no help for five days, even though it overlooks a base for thousands of Indian troops. Army spokesman Colonel Hemant Juneja told TIME that helicopter crews were evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians alike on the basis of the severity of their injuries alone. But several days after the quake, Skee villagers said they had received no drops of food, water or medicine. All too often, say eyewitnesses in both...