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Of course, that didn’t end European wars of conquest. To the contrary, it led to the development of large standing armies supported by the power of central governments to tax their people, who were kept in line with large standing armies.
Given what we've seen of late, it's safe to say that White House Press Secretary Tony Snow has given up on being credible, and will simply say whatever he has to -- no matter how outlandish -- just to get through a briefing.
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President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and said he plans to expand the overall size of the "stressed" U.S. armed forces to meet the challenges of a long-term global
He added that he believed the best way to fight illegal coca plantations was to open new markets so that Peru's land could be used to produce coca for legal purposes.
And what do they have now to choose from? Let's have a look.
The insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan have thus far cost fewer U.S. lives than the Filipino insurgency of 1899-1902. Yet Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker warned Congress last week the U.S. Army "will break" without more troops.
The first court decision to interpret and apply the legislative atrocity known as the "Military Commissions Act of 2006" was issued in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. The decision was a major victory for the Bush administration's attemp
Sending 30,000 additional American troops to Iraq wouldn't stop the worsening violence, Rep. Ike Skelton, (D-MO), the incoming chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said. "I don't think it will change a thing," Skel
After thousands of years of practice, you might have imagined that every possible means of inflicting pain had already been devised. But you should never underestimate the human capacity for invention. US interrogators have found a new way of destroy
A documentary says French special forces had Osama bin Laden in their sights twice about 3 years ago but their U.S. superiors never ordered them to fire. The French military, however, said that the incidents never happened and the report was "er
A woman going through security at Los Angeles International Airport put her month-old grandson into a plastic bin intended for carry-on items and slid it into an X-ray machine. The accident — bizarre but not unprecedented
A Libyan court again sentenced 5 Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to be shot by a firing squad for deliberately infecting more than 400 children with H.I.V., more than 50 of whom have died. The decision complicates Libya’s efforts to improve
Sgt. Vincenzo Macrino was arrested Friday for allegedly tampering with evidence to frame a suspect during an alcohol bust in August. Macrino was honored in September by Mothers Against Drunk Driving as one of its “top cops” for making drunken-driving
“There were over 1,200 detained [in the raids], and to only turn up 65 people on criminal charges, means it was a failure for them,” Joseph says. “All it accomplished was separating families and leaving kids without parents.”
The head of a private DNA laboratory said under oath that he and District Attorney Mike Nifong agreed not to report DNA results favorable to Duke lacrosse players charged with rape.
Palestinian prime minister conveys message to Israel: If Palestinian state is established within 1967 borders, Hamas will aggress to long-term hudna. Meanwhile, Abbas calls for end to Gaza fighting
A Vermont soldier at the center of a national effort to help active-duty military personnel find ways to tell members of Congress they want the US to pull out of Iraq is now handing out care packages at several military bases around the country that
New York City violated the U.S. Constitution for more than two months in 2001 with a policy to detain arrested protesters overnight [try days!!!!] instead of giving them summonses to appear in court, a U.S. federal jury found.
If the Bush Administration attacks Iran, it would be violating the UN Charter. It would be violating the Algiers Accord that the US signed with Iran in 1981 to end the hostage crisis. It states, “The United States pledges that it is and from now on w
Unlike the Nuremberg war-crimes trials of the Nazis, there will be no government officials in the dock, but rather prisoners against whom the US has itself committed war crimes under the Geneva Conventions and our own War Crimes act.
Imagine a massive database accessible by government officials in the US containing your name, address, photograph, Social Security number, birth certificate, citizenship status — and possibly even your fingerprints and retinal scan.
Aiham Alsammarae, who telephoned this reporter, said, without offering proof, that he was already outside Iraq after finagling his way aboard a flight at the Baghdad International Airport. Impossible say authorities.
Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, has submitted plans to retire and will leave his post in March. Abizaid has strenuously resisted calls to increase troop levels to quell rising violence in Baghdad, arguing it wo
A White House laboring to find a new approach in Iraq said it is considering sending more U.S. troops, an option that worries top generals because of its questionable payoff and potential backlash. The military's caution on shipping thousands of
The Bush administration is split over the idea of a surge in troops to Iraq, with White House officials aggressively promoting the concept over the unanimous disagreement of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to U.S. officials familiar with
Iraq’s former electricity minister, the most senior official arrested on corruption charges, made a brazen escape from an Iraqi jail in the heavily fortified Green Zone. A fleet of SUV's filled with "Westerners" pulled up to the
A Justice Department team responsible for investigating accusations that civilian government employees had abused detainees has decided against prosecution in most of the nearly 20 cases referred in the last two years by the Pentagon and the CIA.
The federal deficit for 2006 would have been 81% higher than the $247.7 billion reported if government had to use the accounting methods of private companies. Under the accrual method of accounting, the deficit would be $449.5 billion,
At the height of the flu pandemic in 1918, William H. Sardo Jr. remembers the pine caskets stacked in the living room of his family's house. Church services were banned. Ill in the morning, dead by night.
