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Live after US left Irak

He spoke from the same Oval Office setting used by Bush in 2003, when he told the world America had no alternative but to flush out Saddam Hussein’s putative weapons of mass destruction. The WMDs never turned up — and … Continue reading

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Oil disaster

As many hundreds of thousands of gallons of deadly oil continues to spread throughout the Gulf of Mexico, lapping at the Louisiana coast, en route to the Atlantic Ocean, the folly and arrogance of Barack Obama’s March, 2010, proposal to … Continue reading

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How is the Aid money Haiti spent

There’s a storm brewing in Haiti. Not a storm from the rainy season bearing down, but a storm over why so many are still in dire straits a full four months after the earthquake. Why so many are facing the … Continue reading

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Fort Hood Crisis: mental health and how to help

The Fort Hood shooting is one of the largest shooting incidents to take place on a U.S. military installation. As of press time, 13 are dead and dozens are wounded after an Army psychiatrist opened fire on fellow soldiers. When … Continue reading

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Why kill other people PTSD

1 in 8 returning soldiers suffers from PTSD The Army’s first study of the mental health of troops who fought in Iraq found that about one in eight reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. The survey also showed that less … Continue reading

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Was Gillette a rogue deputy or a good cop?

John Gillette was either a rogue deputy or a “squared away” cop whose way of doing business was a model for others in the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office. Department brass have said Gillette was the latter, even after he had … Continue reading

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Halloween Complaint

Cash for Candy The buckets of candy that trick-or-treaters bring home every year isn’t so sweet if it lands your child in his or her dentist’s chair. So the Carpathian Dental Associates in Johnson City came up with a sweet … Continue reading

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Next steps after Afghanistan’s run-off vote is scrapped

News that Afghanistan’s planned Nov. 7 run-off presidential election has been canceled after the withdrawal of Abdullah Abdullah, main rival to incumbent President Hamid Karzai, casts a new light on a story in this week’s Maclean’s about Grant Kippen, the … Continue reading

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Military commission blasts feds for withholding info

A lawyer with the Canadian Military Complaints Commission says the truth about allegations of prisoner torture in Afghanistan will only surface if the government is forthcoming with documents. Freya Kristjanson told Canada AM on Thursday that while the government has … Continue reading

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Ousted UN official stands by election complaint

An American ousted as the No. 2 official at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan said Monday he has no second-thoughts about assertions that the organization failed to aggressively probe vote fraud charges in the August presidential election. “The flaw that … Continue reading

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