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Bu$hCo needs you to fight so they make more money. They are considering reinstating the draft to fight in their mis-handled war that should have never happened to begin with.
A top U.S. military officer in charge of co-ordinating the U.S. war effort in Iraq said yesterday that it makes sense to consider a return [...]

Most Americans see President George W. Bush as too inflexible on the war in Iraq and prefer that the Democratic-run Congress have the final word on when to withdraw U.S. forces, a Washington Post/ABC News poll showed on Monday.
I guess when you fuck up for this long people start to lose faith in you, huh? [...]

Vice President Dick Cheney blocked the promotion of a Justice Department official involved in a bedside standoff over President Bush’s eavesdropping program, a Senate committee learned Wednesday.
In a written account, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey said Cheney warned Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that he would oppose the promotion of a department official who once [...]

A record number of Americans disapprove of the war in Iraq, and a clear majority now favors the eventual withdrawal of U.S. forces, even if civil order has not been restored there — potentially a tipping point in public attitudes on the war.
While solutions remain vexing, for the first time ABC News/Washington Post polls show [...]

Democrats, now a majority in Congress, fired a symbolic shot across President George W. Bush’s bow yesterday, passing a toughly worded but non-binding resolution that opposes sending thousands more U.S. soldiers into Baghdad’s violent cauldron.
It was the first anti-war vote since Sept. 11, 2001, a rare rebuke of a sitting president’s foreign policy and one [...]

Sen. John Kerry on Saturday blamed Republicans for squelching Senate debate on the Iraq war and warned that President Bush’s plan for more troops in Iraq is a mistake.
“Another 21,000 troops sent into Iraq, with no visible end or strategy, ignores the best advice from our own generals and isn’t the best way to [...]

The judge and attorneys in the Lewis “Scooter” Libby case slogged through more potential jurors Thursday to reach 30 qualified out of a necessary 36, prompting the judge to hope for better results when jury selection resumes Monday.
In three days of interviews, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton and the trial attorneys have disqualified 19 potential [...]

The Democrats are actually working, and working hard, at doing something good for the country after years of policies backed by Bush and his cronies were passed without so much as a thought by the Republican controlled Congress. First the anti-war resolution was passed, with some support from moderate Republicans and now the [...]