Monday edition - July 10, 2006

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• Daily look at U.S. military deaths in Iraq AP

• Iraq Body Count

• Gunmen ambush bus in Baghdad, killing 7 AP

• At least 58 die in sectarian attacks in Iraq Detroit Free Press

• 3 US soldiers die when bomb strikes armored vehicle Houston Chronicle

• Afghan fighting kills coalition officer AP

• Saddam lawyers boycott closing stage of trial Reuters

• 4 more charged with rape, murder in Iraq AP

• Official: Probe faults Haditha response CNN International

• Dothan, AL Guard Unit Headed to Iraq WSFA, AL 

• About 130 Michigan Army National Guard soldiers prepare for Iraq MLive.com

• Major new deployment of UK troops to Afghanistan Scotsman

• Iraq's troubled pipeline shut for repairs AP

• Iraq's PM Maliki to visit US soon - source Reuters AlertNet

• Iraq Shi'ites see reasons for death squad killings Reuters

The latest talk-dirty-to-me line: "I'll be the Sea of Japan if you'll be my Taepodong missile."  -- Grant Gerver

 "The war in Iraq is shameful. Whether you're pro or con Bush, you've got to admit it: The guy lied. And he continues to do so. I can't understand why he's just not run out on a rail. To send somebody's kids off and have them killed for no good reason — he's going to have his day in hell for that. I wouldn't want that karma. When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more." -- Rocker Tom Petty in an Esquire magazine interview

Larry King Interview With The Bushes

Larry asked Bush, "So there is no doubt, if you had it to do over again, knowing the WMDs weren't there, you'd still go in?"

And Bush said, "Yes, This is-we removed a tyrant, who was a weapon-he was an enemy of the United States who harbored terrorists and who had the capacity, at the very minimum, to make weapons of mass destruction. And he was a true threat. Yes, I would have done the same thing."
 

Laura Spent 4th of July Watching the Shuttle Take Off

But what I spent the day doing actually was watching our shuttle take off from Florida...But we knew by the time the party started that the [North Korean] rockets had pretty much failed or...you know, weren't that destructive.

 

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Mexico and Florida have more in common than heat

There is evidence that left-leaning voters have been scrubbed from key electoral lists in Latin America

Greg Palast
Saturday July 8, 2006
The Guardian


There's something rotten in Mexico. And it smells like Florida. The ruling party, the Washington-friendly National Action Party (Pan), proclaimed yesterday their victory in the presidential race, albeit tortilla thin, was Mexico's first "clean" election. But that requires we close our eyes to some very dodgy doings in the vote count that are far too reminiscent of the games played in Florida in 2000 by the Bush family. And indeed, evidence suggests that Team Bush had a hand in what may be another presidential election heist.

How Dick Cheney Spent His Summer Vacation

Dick Cheney has been spending a lot of time in the huge Central Asian republic, so much so that its windswept steppes have become his new Secret Undisclosed Location. Mostly the Acting President hangs out in Kazakhstan's landlocked hinterlands wooing a reviled dictator, the only ruler the nation has known since being evicted by the USSR in 1991. Thanks in part to more than $50 million a year in U.S. taxpayer money and ever-soaring bundles of military aid, Cheney hopes to secure "total energy dominance" via lucrative oil pipeline deals on behalf of GOP-connected energy companies.