Bush to veto bill curbing waterboarding (tags)
Bush to veto bill curbing waterboarding
Infragard - Martial law enforcement has been privatized (tags)
Martial law enforcement has been privatized
Iran halted nuclear program in 2003 (tags)
Iran halted nuclear program in 2003
FCC wants to relax media ownership constraints (tags)
FCC wants to relax media ownership constraints
One-third of US lacked health insurance (tags)
One-third of US lacked health insurance
White House Establishes New PR Office - Wants Input (tags)
My fellow Americans,
Iraq behind the cameras: a different reality (tags)
"We've got a lot of good things going on, but when I went home (on leave), people were just like 'We never hear that stuff,' " said Civil Affairs Pvt. Amy Schroeder. "That's what makes the families worry." What Iraq looks like on TV, and what Iraq is like for the 130,000 troops living here, sometimes feels like two different realities.
When ex-Iraqi soldiers demonstrated outside Bremer's office at the former Presidential Palace, US troops shot two of them dead. When Falujah residents staged a protest as long ago as April, the American military shot 16 dead. Another 11 were later gunned down in Mosul. During two demonstrations against the presence of US troops near the shrine of Imam Hussein at Karbala last weekend, US soldiers shot dead another three. "What a wonderful thing it is to speak your own minds," Lt-Gen Sanchez said of the demonstrations in Iraq last week. Maybe he was exhibiting a black sense of humour.