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Clear Channel Execs Donate More to Bush

Jim Hopkins | USA Today | March 23, 2004

"What's more, the executives and Clear Channel's political action committee gave 77% of their $334,501 in federal contributions to Republicans. That's a bigger share than any other entertainment company, says the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics." [more]

Quiet Negotiations Develop Possible Mideast Peace Plan

Jimmy Carter | USA Today | November 2, 2003

"The Quartet's plan is now a dead issue. Instead, there are continuing violent attacks by Palestinian terrorist groups and increasingly harsh reprisals from Israel. Supporting such policies is the worst thing America could do for Israelis who want peace." [more]

Army Probes Soldier Suicides in Iraq

Gregg Zoroya | USA Today | October 13, 2003

"Alarmed by the number of suicides among soldiers in Iraq, the Army has asked a team of doctors to determine whether the stress of combat and long deployments is contributing to the deaths. A psychiatrist at the Army's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences ... is helping to investigate the suicides in Iraq. 'Is there something different going on in Iraq that we really need to pay attention to?' " [more]

Iraq Soldiers Part of PR Effort

Ledyard King | USA Today | October 12, 2003

A series of letters to hometown newspapers, purportedly written by US soldiers in Iraq, contain identical language. The letters praise the US effort to rebuild the war-torn Mideast nation. [more]

Costs of War in Iraq, Afghanistan Approach Levels of Vietnam

Dave Moniz | USA Today | September 7, 2003

"Lawmakers of both parties warned before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that stabilizing post-war Iraq could be far more expensive than waging war. For months, the Bush administration was reluctant to discuss the financial costs of the commitment, much as the Johnson administration seldom directly addressed the budget impact of Vietnam." [more]

Bush Presses for More Nukes, End to Test Ban

Tom Squitieri | USA Today | July 7, 2003

"The matter-of-fact way in which Rumsfeld suggested [nuclear weapons'] possible role [in US combat] was a rare public sign of a growing effort by the administration to end the decade-long ban on developing and testing new nuclear bombs." [more]

Pause in Glee to Ask: Were Supporters Misled?

Don Campbell | USA Today | April 27, 2003

"The premise on which the White House sold this war to Americans — Iraq had weapons of mass destruction that were a direct threat to us — has yet to be validated. Some who accepted that are beginning to feel a little bit had. If you're going to invade a country without direct provocation, the justification should be ironclad both before and after the fact." [more]

Some in Military Refuse to Fight in Iraq

Deborah Sharp | USA Today | March 21, 2003

"About 500 servicemembers filed for conscientious objector status during the Persian Gulf War, according to the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress. Peace groups say as many as three times that number refused to fight, and many served prison sentences up to 18 months." [more]

How the US Watches Suspects of Terrorism

Toni Locy and Kevin Johnson | USA Today | February 12, 2003

"Desperate to prevent attacks, the FBI is stopping promising investigations and making quick arrests at even a hint of potential violence. ... Since Sept. 11, 2001, there have been 112 terror-related convictions in the United States; none has involved an active plot by a terror cell." [more]

US Set to Use Mines in Iraq

Tom Squitieri | USA Today | December 11, 2002

"The Pentagon is preparing to use anti-personnel land mines in a war with Iraq, despite U.S. policy that calls for the military to stop using the mines everywhere in the world except Korea by 2003." [more]

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