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MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A guerrilla attack on a tented dining hall at a U.S. base in Iraq killed 15 U.S. soldiers and seven other people in one of the deadliest strikes on U.S. forces since last year's war to oust Saddam Hussein. U.S. officials initially said a number of rocket and mortar...

McCain Spills the Beans About Rumsfeld William Prendergast Senator McCain got himself in trouble with his fellow Republicans again by telling the truth: he said he has "no confidence"—that’s right, he said "NO confidence," absolutely none—in Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the "military...

Dear Santa Bush Mikel Weisser December 20, 2004 I am writing you to thank you for the wonderful presents you’ve given me so far this year and get in my wish list for next year. I hope that you don’t think I have been naughty just because I spent the whole year trying to get you thrown out of...

I had to post all of the letter here. Sorry guys, but if it is too much, please remove. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A letter to the People of America Is America better off after Invading Iraq? december 20, 2004 Dear People of America...

US Marines 'Traumatised' By Fallujah Assault 12-19-4 NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) - Nearly six weeks after US marines stormed the rebel enclave of Fallujah, military psychologists are still seeing a steady stream of service personnel traumatised by the long days and nights of ferocious street...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush defended embattled Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Monday, saying the Pentagon chief was doing "a really fine job." Bush answered indirectly when asked at a news conference about his view of Rumsfeld's use of a mechanical device to sign letters of...

(CBS) The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by correspondent Andy Rooney. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't normally take seriously what anyone called "Tommy" says. Of course, that's true of anyone called "Andy," too. But I was...

As I was surfing the Internet, I went on another forum that some people here are very familiar with. I can't explain the hatred some of these people have inside them. One person in particular has so much hate I think he hates himself to be alive. The only thing he does there is post hate...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Bush's bold, uncompromising leadership and his clear-cut election victory made him Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2004, its managing editor said on Sunday. Time chose Bush "for sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of...

The Persuader Billy Graham's son and heir apparent discusses evangelism, Iraq and why he feels Christians are 'under attack'. Also why he is against Gays and Lesbians and is he out to convert Muslims? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6730092/site/newsweek/

Torture Begins at the Top By Joe Conason 12/17/04 "Salon.com" -- Renewed exposure of prisoner abuse, torture and even murder by American military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan is widening already deep divisions between the Pentagon and the intelligence community - and creating an...

Noam Chomsky: Imperial Presidency Imperial Presidency by Noam Chomsky December 17, 2004 It goes without saying that what happens in the US has an enormous impact on the rest of the world – and conversely: what happens in the rest of the world cannot fail to have an impact on the US, in...

Forced Entry For Blood, Oil and Israel By Albert M. Jabara December 18, 2004 ........ George W. Bush, Toni Blair and Ariel Sharon love nothing more than waging a war against all Arab nations. Americans, Britains and Israeli’s citizen will depose their leaders before any such war of this...

U.S. isn't winning against Iraqi insurgents, agencies warn By Warren P. Strobel, John Walcott and Jonathan S. Landay Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - The CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department have warned President Bush that the United States and its Iraqi allies...

Dec 18, 1:08 PM (ET) By DAVID McHUGH Osama bin Laden claims to have bled the Soviet Union into bankruptcy as an Islamic guerrilla fighter in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Could he do the same to another hated superpower - the United States? The al-Qaida leader's latest purported communication...

Microsoft May Charge Extra For Antispyware By Ted Bridis, AP 9:46 AM EST Fri. Dec. 17, 2004 Microsoft disclosed plans Thursday to offer frustrated users of its Windows software new tools within 30 days to remove spyware programs secretly running on computers. But it might cost extra in coming...

In U.S., 44 Percent Say Restrict Muslims Dec 17, 10:08 PM (ET) By WILLIAM KATES ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) - Nearly half of all Americans believe the U.S. government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim Americans, according to a nationwide poll. The survey conducted by Cornell University...

Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife’s Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There? by Nicholas Monahan ..... At the security checkpoint I was led aside for the "inspection" that’s all the rage at airports these days. My shoes...

The Plot To Kill Us All As the atrocities of rich criminals increase, the tragic American coma intensifies by John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 12-16-04 I remember a childhood board game, in which a magnet beneath the surface pulled around metal shavings into any form you cared to make. It was...

Cash prize offered for 9/11 theory by Thursday 16 December 2004 9:58 AM GMT Jimmy Walter has spent more than $3 million promoting a conspiracy theory that the September 11 attacks on the United States were an inside job. And he is offering more cash to anyone who proves him wrong. The...