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Clintons prod Dems on delegate strength

Politics – After a weekend of campaign adversity, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband separately prodded Democratic Party leaders on Monday to look beyond mere delegate strength in picking a presidential nominee at this summer's national convention.

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Iraq Veterans: Rules of Engagement "Thrown Out the Window"

Do No Evil – Garret Reppenhagen received integral training about the Geneva Conventions and the Rules of Engagement during his deployment in Kosovo. But in Iraq, "Much of this was thrown out the window," he says. "We found rapidly we were killing Iraqis in horrible ways. But we had to in order to remain safe ourselves. The war is the atrocity.&qu

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Cheney warns against large cuts in Iraq

News – Cheney used words like "phenomenal" and "remarkable turnaround" to describe a drop in violence in Iraq, and he hailed recently passed legislation aimed at keeping Iraq on a democratic path.

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Iraq Veterans: "We Reacted Out of Fear, and With Total Destruction"

Do No Evil – Hart Viges joined the Army the day after Sept. 11, in the belief that he could help make the world a safer place. Viges said that U.S. troops routinely detained innocent Iraqis during home raids. He said they never went on the right raid where they got the right house, much less the right person - not once.

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German Man Buys Three Full Pages of NYT in Attempt to Educate Americans About American Wars

News – JÃ;Â¼rgen TodenhÃ;Â¶fer says on his website that he has drafted 10 theses to be printed in 3 parts. The first 2 parts, containing the first 5 theses, were printed on two full pages of today's New York Times, pages 6 and 7, and in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Al-Quds Al-Arabi. The 3rd par

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Why won't Clinton, McCain make tax returns public?

Politics – Hillary Clinton isn't the only presidential candidate who hasn't made tax records public. Arizona Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, hasn't either. His campaign says that he'll make his records public in the next month or so. McCain has never made his tax returns public, but Clinton has.

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