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...three years as Commander in Chief and his victories in Afghanistan and Iraq show what President Bush has learned about leadership. There is no smoking gun in the story of his National Guard service. I don't question John Kerry's war record, but his Senate voting record over the past 20 years makes me happy he was not the person at the helm on 9/11. Kevin McCann Maple Grove...
...troops have stepped back, Shi'ite and Kurd political parties are relying on their own armed militias to step in. Especially after Tuesday's bloodbath, no one feels safe enough to disarm. Gun-toting Shi'ite militiamen clad in black flooded the bomb-scarred neighborhoods of Karbala and Baghdad, setting up checkpoints and clearing the streets. Thousands of Shi'ites are under arms, divided into two major groups. One, the Jaish al-Mahdi, is aligned with the firebrand radical Muqtada al-Sadr and posts its secretive fighters at his Baghdad strongholds. "Every day people are coming in to volunteer," Sheik...
...year-old daughter Nunus leaps around happily, unaware of the horrific circumstances in which her life came about. Debbie is likely to be dead before the child grows up. Two weeks ago, she sent a friend in South Africa an SMS message from her safe house. I WANT A GUN, she wrote. The next line said joking, but it was hard to believe that was true...
This trouble with the law, unfortunately, happens in a particularly bad time in Chen’s life. “I went back to Taiwan to visit my sick mother, and then a guy pulled a gun and robbed my store, and then I could have been put in jail for this alcohol violation,” he says...
...with a court martial. The incident happened when Gardner, who told me he had ?no trouble shooting gooks,? saw a Viet Cong guerilla with an AK-47 in a boat and started firing. ?I lay the hammer down on him,? Gardner explains. ?I just put a finger on the gun: boom, boom, boom, boom. He?s done. He got flipped out of the boat, he went straight down. That?s when Kerry came running out of the guntub screaming ?ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire.? Then he turned to me and said, ?I ought to have you court-martialed for shooting.? I said...