McClatchy Washington Bureau | 06/18/2008 | General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes
WASHINGTON — The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing “war crimes” and called for those responsible to be held to account.
The remarks by Maj. [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNqiAgE1kw

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I remember not so long ago when my conservative friends (yes, I have them) lamented how Bill Clinton destroyed the military. I don’t hear that from them so much anymore.
Stories like this are why:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Every day, five U.S. soldiers try to kill themselves. Before the Iraq war began, that figure was less [...]

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Notes from my April 5, 2008 show… compiled from an article in The Nation magazine and AP wire reports and blog posts at ThinkProgress.org.

It was an early January morning in 2008 when 42-year-old Lisa Smith*, a paramedic for a defense contractor in southern Iraq, woke up to find her entire room shaking. The shipping container [...]

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On the heels of Martha Raddatz’s exclusive interview with Dick, when asked about how 2/3rds of the American people hate this war and Dick said “So?”, comes this gem from Dick noting the death of the 4,000th American soldier in Iraq. It’s even worse than “So?”
“I want to start with the milestone today of [...]

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