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...January, Boston City Councillor Felix Arroyo, who opposes war in Iraq, announced that he would remain on a hunger strike until the nation’s aggressive policies against Iraq were reversed. By now, Arroyo’s promise to subsist on an all liquid diet should have lasted...
...look of the war, barring a an unexpected uprising, coup or decapitation strike on Saddam's hiding place, there may be much death and destruction in Iraq before it is all over. I'm guessing that the leveling of Baghdad, if that tragedy were to occur, would counteract Iraqi joy at Saddam's demise...
...Kara did an amazing job on the mound,” Whitton said. “With bases loaded, she would usually get them to pop up or strike out which says a lot about the strength of the pitcher...
That may well account for Saddam's history of disastrous miscalculations, especially in war. In 1980 he saw the revolutionary confusion inside Iran as a golden opportunity. No military expert, yet commander in chief, he thought a quick strike by his superior forces could snatch back some disputed territory from Iran and earn gratitude from Arab regimes for slaying the Persian fundamentalist Shi'ite threat. But his army failed to break Ayatullah Khomeini's revolutionary forces for eight years. Whenever they threatened to conquer pieces of his territory, he shelled them with lethal chemicals, setting a pattern of resorting...
...airfield by his 3rd Battalion. After watching them for an hour, Hodges left to check on reports his 1st Battalion was meeting enemy resistance at the military complex it had been told to seize. By the time he arrived Lt. Colonel Marcus DeOliveira had called in an air strike, which killed or at least silenced the 3-4 Iraqis holding up the advance...