March 29 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush said the instability in Iraq today is a legacy of Saddam Hussein's regime and not the result of the U.S. invasion that toppled his government.
Despite the losses, three more cities - Glendale, Goodyear and Casa Grande - are jockeying to build a spring training facility that could cost more than $70 million and result in annual operating losses of $1 million to $2 million. Leaders from those
Chris Simcox is the controversial cofounder (with James Gilchrist) of the Minuteman Project, and the project's main spokesperson, which brought nationwide attention to the problems created by illegal immigration on our southern border.
Why We Fight exposes the military-industrial complex that Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about in his farewell address 45 years ago. Why We Fight won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
The Pentagon has requested hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency funds for military construction in Iraq, fanning the debate about US long-term intentions there. The money will add to an existing bill of $1.3bn for military construction
The federal judge overseeing prosecution of 2 former lobbyists charged with receiving and transmitting national defense information under the 1917 Espionage Act has given the government until today to respond to defense claims that the statute is unc
The news for the Bush administration is not good. Compared to the previous Index survey last June, the latest survey showed no improvement in most areas and significant declines in several key areas, including energy, Iraq, Afghanistan, global warmin
Check out this video from the BBC about the 130 mile march of antiwar Iraq veterans from Mobile, Alabama to St. Bernard's Parish in New Orleans, Louisiana: It begins with a young man explaining how isolated he feels since returning home, and his
The U.S. military was trying to send a "little reality jab" to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr when American and Iraqi troops raided a Shiite community center and shrine over the weekend, says a top U.S. military official.
Karl Rove cautioned that Bush's 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale for going to war had been challenged within the administration.
The American Red Cross, plagued by continuing controversy over its Hurricane Katrina relief effort, said that it is turning over to federal law enforcement officials results of its investigation into possible wrongdoing at a food and warehouse operat
Superintendent George Giokaris said the lecture was a lesson in civics, reminding him of his time in college, when students protested the Vietnam War. Police told students the city would impose a daytime curfew by issuing truancy tickets.
Police tried to use a Taser on a Wichita student a month before stunning another student with a Taser two weeks ago at North High School, police records show. A report released Wednesday shows that a school resource officer tried unsuccessfully to st
"We are not leaving the base in daytime because we know other bombers are waiting for us," said a soldier at a base near Mosul's city centre. The 12,000 police "are police by day and terrorists by night."
The “Big One” is Rummy...has President Bush finally gotten to the point where he sees Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld as a liability, not an asset? You can see evidence for this, if you want.
Specifically, note who has been run out for TV recently
Meanwhile...in Pennsylvania's Allegheny County, where plans to use Diebold's hackable Electronic Voting Equipment have recently been nixed, Plan B seems to be failing too. The machines they'd hope to use instead have now been shown to be
White House spokesman Scott McClellan declined to speculate about reports Treasury Secretary John Snow may be replaced. Bolten wants Snow replaced with someone who can present the administration's message more forcefully.
Sectarian violence has displaced more than 30,000 Iraqis -- victims of gunmen who warn them to leave or die -- since a Shi'ite shrine was bombed last month, the government said.
In a middle-class neighborhood on the bank of the Tigris River, Charlie Company's 4th Platoon dismounts from their armored vehicles and starts banging on doors. They're going house to house, talking to residents, looking for information on in
As the justices of the Supreme Court took their seats Tuesday morning to hear Osama bin Laden's former driver challenge the Bush administration's plan to try him before a military commission, one question — perhaps the most important one — wa
The killing of between 16 and 37 members of Moqtada al-Sadr's Shiite militia by U.S. forces Sunday may herald a massive escalation of the Iraq conflict.
And it could prove extremely dangerous for U.S. forces there.
For all the ongoing feroc
The Afghan man who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity received asylum in Italy Wednesday, despite requests by lawmakers in Afghanistan that he be barred from fleeing the conservative Muslim country.
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Women were far better off under former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein, a women's group has found after an extensive survey in Iraq. "Under the previous dictator regime, the basic rights for women were enshrined in the constitution," Houza
Champions of the poor or sectarian thugs? A crisis over a U.S.-backed raid on an Iraqi mosque that cost at least 16 lives has again thrust attention on a Shi'ite militia led by fiery young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
His Mehdi Army fighters were g
A federal judge put in place temporary rules to prevent the leak of classified information in the case of alleged Al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla. While agreeing to rules proposed by prosecutors, U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke said she would consid
Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed has told interrogators that at least 34 individuals were "participants" in the attacks, including a mysterious Jordanian who supposedly prepared 10 of the hijackers for their grisly task by trainin
A federal judge sentenced Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the Falls Church man convicted of conspiring to kill President Bush and of joining an al-Qaeda cell in Saudi Arabia, to 30 years in prison with 30 additional years of supervised release.
The target date for compulsory ID cards in Britain was pushed back to January 2010 when the House of Lords accepted a compromise deal with Prime Minister Tony Blair's government.
"The men were taken away and the women were screaming and crying, and I just remember thinking: this was exactly what Saddam used to do - and now we're doing it." 'If you start looking at them as humans, then how are you gonna kill