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...constitution would give the council’s three committees more freedom in determining their own structure than they currently have and revise the council’s non-discrimination policy...
...Iraq for the strategic and economic benefits. You are building the largest embassy in the world in Baghdad. Halliburton and Bechtel are running everything, at enormous profits. And then I watch Bush on Al-Arabiya and all I see is his sense of moral superiority. He brings democracy and freedom to the barbarians. But who are the barbarians? Even before the Abu Ghraib pictures, we saw male soldiers searching Iraqi women and humiliating Iraqi men by forcing their heads to the ground...
...encouragement of his roommate, he hastily cobbled together a production of a short play he had written, Kiddie Pool, which dealt with two insecure young men and their quest for the attentions of the fairer sex. “It’s just great to have the freedom and environment and a crew of people that you can call up to put up lights and…find a way to bust out a play in a week and a half,” he says...
...back-to-back grillings by members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill Friday, the challenge facing tens of thousands of American troops on the ground in Iraq continued to grow, with little sign of respite or resolution. The costs of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" in U.S. lives and treasure continues to soar; hostility among ordinary Iraqis to the U.S. presence appears to be growing; hopes have receded that the June 30 transfer of symbolic sovereignty to a yet-to-be determined caretaker government will improve the security situation; and the occupation authority appears to be improvising...
...Since April 1, an average of five U.S. troops has been killed in Iraq every day. A year after Baghdad first fell, the insurgency is stronger than ever, and U.S. forces require intelligence to help defend themselves from insurgent attack. But the ideological assumption of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" is that most Iraqis welcome the presence of the Coalition troops, while those resisting are a tiny minority of local thugs and foreign terrorists. The reality on the ground, as experienced by tens of thousands of U.S. troops, may be quite different. Polls show that a majority of Iraqis now want...