Truth from the troops
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It took courage for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to take questions from troops during a pep talk in Kuwait Wednesday. It also took courage for the troops to ask tough questions of a high-ranking official.
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&#39;Our military is the pride of our country. We can&#39;t pay them enough to do the things that we ask of them -- the sacrifices, the separations, the heroics.
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QUESTION: Mr. President, American forces are gearing up for what appears to be a major offensive in Fallujah over the next several days. I'm wondering if you could tell us what the objective is, what the stakes are there for the United States, for the Iraqi people, and the Iraqi elections coming up in January?
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Democrats rolled out a "Bush truth squad" Tuesday to state the facts as they see them and challenge the president's assertions at every turn of the campaign.
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Just before Christmas, an Army captain named Brian Freeman cornered Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) at a Baghdad helicopter landing zone. The war was going badly, he told them. Troops were stretched so thin they were doing tasks they never dreamed of, let alone trained for....
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A different perspective on the war in Iraq: behind the scenes at a hospital.
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Â· Secret report accuses senior commanders  Â· MoD backs ban on military personnel selling stories
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Â· New demands on troops put pressure on projectsÂ· MoD denies combat training is being cut
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HILLA, Iraq  - The top U.S. military commander in Iraq on Thursday promised the truth from a progress report on the country that he will deliver to Washington in September.
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It was the kind of exchange that U.S. troops are counting on.
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The distinction between what politicians say on the campaign trail and what they really believe is well illustrated by the current Kerry-Bush skirmishing on Iraq: If either man really believes some of the things he&#39;s saying, we&#39;re in worse shape than we
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Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, the Army&#39;s chief of staff, made a surprise visit to a small group of soldiers here at Forward Operating Base Danger and said in an interview that the war in Iraq is &quot;going pretty well.
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Edward Lee Pitts of the Chattanooga Times Free Press told colleagues in an e-mail that he and members of the Tennessee Army National Guard now in Kuwait "worked on questions to ask Rumsfeld about the appalling lack of armor" and that Spec. Thomas Wilson posed the question at his request.
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Description: Production of armored vehicles has gone up dramatically in the past year, from about 15 vehicles a month to 450. But amid questions about how well troops are protected in Iraq, the Army and at
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BS News said today that a former Texas National Guard officer had &quot;deliberately misled&quot; it in its inquiry into President Bush&#39;s National Guard service by providing
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Recruit the soldier. Retain the family. That's been common wisdom at the Pentagon for ages.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - A senior U.S. Army officer  ordered soldiers to lie to investigators probing an incident in  which two Iraqi civilians were pushed from a bridge and one may  have drowned in the Tigris River, an army major testified on  Thursday.