fifth anniversary

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:

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

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).

Reuters - The death toll of U.S.

Reuters - The number of U.S. soldiers to die in Iraq has reached 4,000, the U.S.

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.