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The shootings last November at Haditha, a city in the Anbar province of western Iraq that has been plagued by insurgents, were covered up, said Rep. John Murtha. “Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long?” Murtha said on “This Week” on ABC. “We don’t know how [...] Senate Republicans were divided Thursday voting on the immigration bill — 23 voted for and 32 voted against it. Until now, the GOP has been united between the corporate wing and the social conservatives, said Ross K. Baker, a Rutgers University political scientist. Now, Republicans are divided between the group that wants the cheap labor [...] From the Rock & Rap Confidential listserv quoting their May issue. They said, feel free to forward or re-post, so I am. Rock the Vote is in shambles. According to a February 7 LA Times article by Charles Duhigg, the organization is $700,000 in debt and has cut its staff from twenty people in 2004 [...] This is not exactly news, but the national Democratic Party is one big stinking dead horse. If they could muster only 15 votes against a man who has overseen the most extensive and intrusive violation of privacy in American history (although “outright rape” is a better term for what the Bush gang has done to [...] Way cool. Take Google Maps and allow anyone to annotate it. (Only works in FireFox currently.) From Google Maps Mania Wikimapia lets anyone add or edit a description for any place on earth (without registering). It also provides a new, unique way of browsing Google Maps satellite images. I wonder how long it will be [...] We’ll be hearing a lot about the Hatidha Massacre was done by a few deranged soldiers. Don’t believe it. The derangement goes right up the food chain and into the top command. On Friday, the New York Times reported that preliminary results of a military inquiry showed that the civilians killed in the city last [...] “When these investigations come out, there’s going to be a firestorm,” said retired Brig. Gen. David M. Brahms, formerly a top lawyer for the Marine Corps. “It will be worse than Abu Ghraib – nobody was killed at Abu Ghraib.” ‘Worst war crime’ committed by US in Iraq John Kline, the Republican Congressmen for [...] |  | ||||
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