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...Iraq? As a soldier's mother, I say bring the troops home from Iraq now. The truth is that the American public was deceived by the Bush Administration about the reasons for the invasion of Iraq [Sept. 27]. And now our leadership is stubbornly adhering to a destructive course. Many Americans do not want our troops there. They are stuck in a quagmire largely of our government's making. There ought to be honest and compelling reasons for the risks to our service members and for the hardships imposed on their families and our communities. So far, the explanations given...
Conventional wisdom has almost always ignored the youth vote. Despite Rock the Vote and other get-out-the-vote efforts, the sad truth according to most politicians is that young people just don’t vote. In the past, they were right. Since 1972, the percentage of young voters as a share of the electorate has declined steadily. Young voters are notoriously difficult to reach and expensive to find. This year, however, both empirical and anecdotal evidence suggest that things are very different...
Saddam A new report shows how the Iraqi dictator kept bluffing about WMDs when the truth might have saved his regime...
...seem unfair to hold Kerry to a higher standard than Bush, whose distortions of the truth are frequent and brazen. The President was dead wrong about Kerry's health-insurance proposal, which isn't even remotely a "government" plan. It is, in fact, a direct descendant of the tax credits for health insurance offered by Senate Republicans to counter "Hillarycare...
...TIME's cover headline "Who Owns the Truth?" drew strong reactions from readers, many of whom rejected the inquiry out of hand [Sept. 27]. "What kind of question is that?" asked a Pennsylvanian. "Truth isn't about ownership; it's an obligation. You in the media need to start reporting the truth, or you will end up like the dinosaurs--extinct." A Canadian wrote, "Your question points to what is deeply wrong in the U.S.--the overblown attention given to the messenger to the detriment of the message. Real debate over serious issues is lost as reporters sell their souls...