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...seconds, especially if there had been some incident--one more dead soldier in the news. Chris' Army reserve unit was a civil-affairs team, the ones who hand out medicine and rebuild schools and are supposed to stay a safe distance from actual combat. But somehow Chris had wound up leading convoys back and forth between Kuwait and Baghdad, and Betsy knew that was a much more dangerous mission than normal. On June 30, he phoned Betsy from Iraq to tell her he was heading back to Kuwait. "I'll be there for a little while...
...Camp Pendleton, Calif., soon after the war officially ended, but he volunteered to sign on for an extra three months because he wanted to earn more money for college, and because he felt there was still work to do. The next day Private Corey Small died from a gunshot wound "in a noncombat incident," and Private First Class Jim Herrgott was killed by a sniper as he guarded the Iraqi National Museum. Three days later, Sergeant David Parson was shot in Baghdad while raiding a house, and Specialist Jeffrey Wershow was shot in the back of the head while guarding...
...comparison. He has finally started facing the kind of hard questioning about the case he made for war that greets Blair with his morning coffee. Things got so desperate for Bush last week that at one point, in an effort to reiterate the underlying causes for war, he wound up inventing a false one. Saddam Hussein didn't allow weapons inspectors into his country, he said, and therefore the U.S. was forced to go to war. If Blair had made the same charge, he would have been heckled into the floorboards during Question Time. He nearly was anyway, but when...
...comparison. He has finally started facing the kind of hard questioning about the case he made for war that greets Blair with his morning coffee. Things got so desperate for Bush last week that at one point, in an effort to reiterate the underlying causes for war, he wound up inventing a false one. Saddam Hussein didn't allow weapons inspectors into his country, he said, and therefore the U.S. was forced to go to war. If Blair had made the same charge, he would have been heckled into the floorboards during Question Time...
Clinton’s fans began congregating outside the hotel in the early morning. By noon, when signing began, a dense line of people—cradling copies of Clinton’s book under their arms—wound among the six American flags in the hotel plaza, through the marble pillars inscribed with the words of John F. Kennedy ’40 and along the row of windows where hotel guests huffed and perspired over exercise equipment...