Fact or Fiction

Osama bin Laden: Is It Him? Almost Certainly

It is as if both "sides" in this conflict live on illusions. Mssrs Bush and Blair keep telling us things in Iraq are getting better, when we all know that they are getting worse. Anarchy has seized that entire country. American bodies coming home to the United States? Just don't let the press take photographs of the coffins. Bombs in London? Nothing to do with Iraq, Blair haplessly told us last July.

The entire article raises excellent questions. Perhaps these are questions you should be asking your representatives in Washington.

See also: Bin Laden Threatens Attacks, Offers Truce


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Ominous Sign: The President's Growing Disregard for the Law

Growing? Growing? The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's editor must be Rip Van Winkle.


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Italy has elections coming up this April. It has the fourth largest troop detail in Iraq right now. So it really isn't any surprise they've announced they will be withdrawing 1,000 of their 2,600 troops from Iraq in June and all Italian troops currently deployed in Iraq will be removed by the end of 2006.

It's an election year here in the United States. The US government has stated it will cut troop deployment in Iraq (they've cut 20,000 since Christmas) even more over the next few weeks.

Do you believe that?

I don't.

I know a few too many guardsmen who have just recently been notified that they are on stand-by. Again.