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Frenzy of speculation on bin Laden's possible whereabouts 3/19
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"Bring 'em on" -- Iraq Sketchbook, a tribute to the service and sacrifice of the men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bush Administration Gives Up on Solutions to Outsourcing; Powell says there's no way to stop it. 3/18
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Jay Garner, the US general abruptly dismissed as Iraq's first occupation administrator after a month in the job, says he fell out with the Bush circle because he wanted free elections and rejected an imposed programme of privatization. 3/18
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Key West Proposes Resolutions to Support Gay Marriages 3/18
The White House vowed to stay in Iraq and 'finish the job for the Iraqi people,' despite the deadly bombing that marred efforts by President Bush to tout the progress in a year of U.S. occupation.
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CNN on the Massive Baghdad Blast 3/18
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Defying Reason, Laws of Economics, GOP Goes After Both Deficit Reduction AND Tax Cut 3/18
The Armageddon Plan "to set aside the legal lines of succession and immediately install a new "President" in the event that a nuclear attack killed the country's leaders." 3/18
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2 Presidents' Aides Will Start Testifying Next Week on 9/11 3/18
Bush loses an election: "The people of Spain chose wisely. And Americans should applaud the result." 3/18
Bush's Medicare deceit 3/18
Duty calls and calls: The strains on America's military can no longer be ignored or denied. 3/18
The Progress Report: Right Wing Debasing Democracy; Squandered Support in Iraq; and more 3/18
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Two GIs in Iraq Seek Objector Status 3/18
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Neanderthal-Filled Tenn. County Wants to Charge Homosexuals "with crimes against nature." 3/18
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