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Malingering or science? Part 1

About 1.4 million troops have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pentagon research indicates that: Up to 28% of combat troops may have been exposed to bomb blasts and suffered at…

Patriotism is done by people, not companies

…has strongly criticised the way the US army manages contracts to supply its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The panel said there were high levels of fraud and waste in…

…up the days. Because of Iraq and Afghanistan we have been together for just seven months. Seven months … We are in a bad place. I don’t know whether this…

Update on Iraq Spending

It is being reported that the Bush administration is preparing to request $70bn in additional funding for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush will…

Debunking the White House’s Budget Myths

…Secondly, today’s projections assume just $37 billion in expenses for Iraq and Afghanistan in 2006, $10 billion in 2007, and virtually zero thereafter. By contrast, the CBO estimated that continuing…

Damn You, Newsweek!

…prisoner, a slight, 22-year-old taxi driver known only as Dilawar, was hauled from his cell at the detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, at around 2 a.m. to answer questions about…

New Budget Forecasts

…not including funding for Iraq and Afghanistan. But the more troubling part of the report is the prospect for little improvement in the budget any time in the next 10…

MTP Panel and Capital Gang on the Iraq War

…we knew then what we know now, that perhaps it wouldn’t have been worth doing… MS. KAY: They didn’t have the major degree of insurgency in Afghanistan that you have…

Politics over Good Policy, Yet Again

…marriage, the haphazard imposition and removal of trade protection for US industry, the low initial troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan, the refusal to use US troops on the front…

VP Debate Live Bloggin’

…wrong, but it wasn’t John Kerry and John Edwards. They got it wrong.” (Letting OBL escape in Afghanistan). Also gave a good accounting of Kerry’s “global test” line. Followed by…