Rumsfeld: U.S. Troops Can Leave Before Iraq Peaceful

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States does not have to wait until Iraq "is peaceful and perfect" before it begins to withdraw military troops from that troubled country, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday.    more »

Speech at New York University
Remarks of John Kerry
September 20th, 2004

New York, NY - I am honored to be here at New York University -- one of the great urban universities, not just in New York, but in the world.  You have set a high standard for global dialogue and I hope to live up to that tradition today.

This election is about choices.  The most important choices a President makes are about protecting America… at home and around the world.  A president’s first obligation is to make America safer, stronger and truer to our ideals.  

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David Sirota | Center for American Progress

President Bush has lately been speaking a lot about how he is doing everything possible to track down terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is thought to be orchestrating deadly attacks on U.S. soldiers in Iraq. What he is not saying is that the Bush administration repeatedly rejected Pentagon plans to neutralize Zarqawi in 2002 and 2003 before Bush invaded Iraq.

According to NBC News, "long before the war, the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself - but never pulled the trigger...In June 2002, U.S. ...   more »

Federal Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan ordered that the U. S. Government release documents pertaining to the treatment of prisioners in Abu Ghraib Prison and other detention facilities including Guantanamo Bay within 30 days. 

An estimated 17,000 plus pages were requested in Freedom of Information Act requests last October (2003) by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups.

When issuing his order, Judge Hellerstein stated that the government had responded at a "glacial pace."

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The AWOL Project | September 14th, 2004

A newly discovered document that was withheld by the White House when it released "all the records" shows that Bush promised to serve in the Air National Guard well beyond the termination of his six year Military Service Obligation. In this document, simply labeled "AGREEMENT", Bush acknowledges that his training will require "the expenditure of extensive public funds" and in exchange for "undergraduate pilot training", he agreed to serve for at least five years after the completion of that training. (It has not been determined what "undergraduate pilot training" refers to. Bush completed ...   more »

Published by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

 

In his acceptance speech September 2, President Bush indicated that he planned to increase a number of education and job training programs “to help workers take advantage of the expanding economy to find better and higher-paying jobs.”  In many of these areas, the President’s current budget proposes modest funding increases for fiscal year 2005, which starts October 1.  But as Center analyses issued earlier this year explain, Administration budget documents show that the Administration’s budget calls for cuts after 2005 in nearly all of the programs that the President cited in ...   more »