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...favor of this war, and I don't believe this country can take four more years of Bush and his tactics. However, the U.S. cannot leave Iraq now and abandon the Iraqis, most of whom just want peace and security. We believe in human rights. If we pull out our troops, there will be a civil war with many innocent victims. We must stay and finish the job. We need more troops and we need to be more aggressive, even if it means destroying mosques or neighborhoods. Phyllis L. Truitt Evansville...
...least 63 Pakistani soldiers were killed (although unofficial accounts put military casualties at more than 200 dead); 11 suspected militants and 26 tribesmen were also killed. Now, with little to show for the campaign, the U.S. is being forced to rethink its Afghanistan strategy?and Pakistan's decision to pull back is leaving others to question again Islamabad's commitment to the war on terror...
...definitely capable of racing better and have shown that all season in our dual races,” senior Megan Smith said. “For some reason, that I’m not quite sure of, today we didn’t pull out the performance we needed...
...Iraqis, such images have come to define the American occupation just as powerfully as the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue did a little more than a year ago. Back then, U.S. Marines and Iraqis worked together to pull down the statue, an event that marked the symbolic end of Saddam's regime. The square was far from full that day. Most ordinary Iraqis were still too scared to venture out of their houses and apartments, preferring to peek through curtains at the arrival of freedom. But the feeling of liberation and joy among those who did go into...
...noise. Others lay down white phosphorus to mark the area where the insurgents' fire seems to have come from. A tank pumps in more tracer. From the roof of an unfinished building, Marines blast the target with machine guns, providing protective cover. The rest of the Marines pull back, running across a field and over to bushes, urged on by yelling noncommissioned officers (NCOs). They expect the insurgents to harass them all the way back to their base. One young man falls and lies prone on the ground, his head pressed down as if afraid something might...