fifth anniversary

Insult My Intelligence, Please

Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Mon, 05/05/2008 - 9:01pm

One day before the fifth anniversary of “Mission Accomplished” the Dean of White House reporters Helen Thomas and White House Spokesperson Dana Perino last Wednesday at a press conference:

MS.

THOMAS: How does the President intend to commemorate "Mission Accomplished" after five years of death and destruction?



 

The Firing Line: 4/9

Daily Texan  Tue, 04/08/2008 - 11:00pm

Don't cry over spilled journalism It's ironic that The Daily Texan editors excoriate students for not being sufficiently outraged about the situation in Iraq - as you did in your piece marking the fifth anniversary of the war - and yet are so thin-skinned when criticized for your reporting on the war ("Directing the anti-media bandwagon," April 7).



 

Death toll of U.S. soldiers in Iraq reaches 4,000 (Reuters)

Ytop stories  Sun, 03/23/2008 - 11:50pm

U.S. soldiers stand silhouetted against the sun in a range at Patrol Base Murray in the Sunni neighbourhood of Arab Jabour, south Baghdad, October 20, 2007.<br /><br />(Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)Reuters - The number of U.S. soldiers to die in Iraq has reached 4,000, the U.S.



 

War Makes A Lousy Economic Policy?

Donklephant  Thu, 03/20/2008 - 10:31pm

An overwhelming majority of Americans thinks so.

From CNN:

In the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll conducted last weekend, 71 percent said they think U.S. spending in Iraq is a reason for the nation’s poor economy.

Twenty-eight percent said they didn’t think so.