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U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 10, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-win.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 12:46pm neoform

Army Times -- An Iraq war veteran said Tuesday he is returning his military medals in what anti-war groups are calling a rare and powerful protest. Josh Gaines, 27, plans to mail the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal and National Defense Service Medal to f.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 19, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

USA Today -- A plurality of Americans say Gen. David Petraeus' proposal to begin withdrawing some U.S. forces from Iraq is on the right track, but his long-awaited testimony to Congress last week failed to change fundamental attitudes toward the war. A USA TODAY/Ga.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Sep 16, 2007 @ 3:07am neoform

Times Online -- AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as hea.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 20, 2007 @ 1:49pm neoform

Time -- Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it's either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jul 4, 2007 @ 11:02pm neoform

Yahoo News -- When the United States invaded Iraq more than four years ago, war opponent David Gross asked his bosses for a radical pay cut, enough so he wouldn't have to pay taxes to support the war. "I was having a hard time looking at myself in the mirror," Gross.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 10:21am neoform

FOX News -- A U.S. veteran who served in the Iraq war could lose his honorable discharge status after being photographed wearing fatigues at an anti-war protest. Marine Cpl. Adam Kokesh and other veterans marked the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq in April b.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 2:57pm neoform

New York Times -- On this Memorial Day, thousands of United States men and women are engaged in untold acts of bravery and drudgery on behalf of what our leaders have defined as vital American interests in Iraq and Afghanistan. But even as the flags wave to honor soldie.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 2, 2007 @ 3:12pm neoform

FOX News -- A static-filled recording of war protesters yelling, followed by a voice and gunfire, was released Tuesday by a Kent State University shooting survivor who claims the tape proves a military order was given to fire on demonstrators. "The evidence speaks.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 11, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

FOX News -- The struggle to entice Army soldiers and Marines to stay in the military, after four years of war in Iraq, has ballooned into a $1 billion campaign, with bonuses soaring nearly sixfold since 2003. The size and number of bonuses have grown as officials.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 11, 2007 @ 2:45pm neoform

USA Today -- —The Army paid more than $1 billion last year in bonuses to attract and keep soldiers in the service, more than three times the total amount of bonuses paid before the Iraq war began. Higher bonuses show the increasing costs of maintaining the troop s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Mar 18, 2007 @ 12:59pm neoform

Washington Post -- Thousands of demonstrators protesting the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq marched on the Pentagon yesterday, jeered along the way by large numbers of angry counter-protesters. Organizers billed the antiwar rally as marking the 40th anniversary of.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:58am neoform

Yahoo News -- A U.S. Army medic who refused to return to Iraq because of his opposition to the war was convicted of desertion at his court martial Tuesday, and could face as long as seven years in prison. Spc. Agustin Aguayo, whose case has been closely watched by A.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 6:41pm neoform

Reuters -- U.S. Army Secretary Francis Harvey has resigned after reports that troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan were being poorly treated at the Army's top hospital, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday. The resignation of Harvey, the top civilian a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 12:28am neoform

Reuters -- A narrow majority of Americans now favor setting a deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Iraq and a record number say they disapprove of the war, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Monday. Fifty-six percent say U.S. force.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Feb 25, 2007 @ 10:32am neoform

Reuters -- Despite the Bush administration's insistence it has no plans to go to war with Iran, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George W. Bush, The New Yorker.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 20, 2007 @ 9:39am mrmdc

NPR -- Small towns across the country are struggling through losses because of the Iraq war. A new report from the Associated Press shows that nearly half of all servicemen and women killed in Iraq came from communities with fewer than 25,000 people. One o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Feb 18, 2007 @ 12:20am neoform

Yahoo News -- A Marine who said he never fired a shot in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man was sentenced Saturday to 8 years in military prison — the longest sentence yet in the case. Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington, 22, also was reduced in rank and given.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 12, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

Editor and Publisher -- Saturday’s New York Times features an article, posted at the top of its Web site late Friday, that suggests very strongly that Iran is supplying the “deadliest weapon aimed at American troops” in Iraq. The author notes, “Any assertion of an Irania.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 12, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

CBS News -- For eight months, Joni Grandin, who never smoked, has been receiving an experimental treatment for advanced lung cancer, thanks to a federally funded clinical trial at the University of North Carolina, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric reports. "I t.. Read More