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Insight on the war in Afganistan.

I mentioned this story before. Here is the text of the Esquire story ‘Hired Guns’. This is a very interesting story, I highly recommend reading it. After reading the story it is easy to understand how the four contractors were killed the other day.

Federal employees will now “have no recourse if they are fired or demoted simply for being gay.“

The Saudis’ special U.S. flight privileges. Even though the White House asserted that flights evacuating the Saudis from the United States just after 9/11 never took place, a list drawn up by the Saudi embassy and obtained by Craig Unger shows the passengers on the White House-sanctioned flight out of Lexington, Kentucky, en route to London on September 15.

Nice one: Days after 9/11, Bush told Blair of need to ‘deal with’ Iraq

Bush attacks environment stories

Text of a speech Dr. Rice was supposed to give on 9/11 – outlined a Bush administration policy that would address “the threats and problems of today and the day after, not the world of yesterday” the focus was largely on missile defense, not terrorism from Islamic radicals.