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Friday, March 2, 2007 |
SFGate: "Republican presidential contender John McCain, a staunch backer of the Iraq war but critic of how President Bush has waged it, said U.S. lives had been 'wasted' in the 4-year-old conflict. Democrats demand the Arizona senator apologize for the comment as Sen. Barack Obama did when the Democratic White House hopeful recently made the same observation."
Obama and McCain are right, the lives of American soldiers in Iraq are wasted, totally wasted. The taboo to mention this stems from a false nationalistic sentiment. Get real, guys, neocon America is the most belligerent, violent, untrustworthy, undemocratic and unfree nation of the world. Stop whining and wasting!
Guardian: "An elite team of officers advising the US commander, General David Petraeus, in Baghdad has concluded that they have six months to win the war in Iraq - or face a Vietnam-style collapse in political and public support that could force the military into a hasty retreat."
March On Pentagon: "On March 17, 2007, the 4th anniversary of the start of the criminal invasion of Iraq, tens of thousands of people from around the country will descend on the Pentagon in a mass demonstration to demand: U.S. Out of Iraq Now! 2007 is the 40th anniversary of the historic 1967 anti-war march to the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. We will assemble at 12 noon at Constitution Gardens."
Borowitz: "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters at the Pentagon today that the conflict in Iraq had improved to the point that it could no longer be considered a quagmire and should now be thought of as a morass."
Borowitz for President!
10:45:56 AM 
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LATimes: "Wall Street executive Mitchel Guttenberg sat down with his friend Erik Franklin in Manhattan's famed Oyster Bar about five years ago to discuss repaying a $25,000 loan.
But instead of cash, Guttenberg allegedly offered a currency that's far more valuable on Wall Street: inside information about dozens of stock analyst recommendations at his firm, financial services powerhouse UBS.
Thus began what regulators described Thursday as one of the most pervasive insider-trading scandals since the days of Ivan Boesky and Dennis Levine in the late 1980s.
Seeking to avoid detection, the men used disposable cellphones so there wouldn't be records of their calls and exchanged text messages in code, authorities said.
The purported scheme, along with an alleged separate plot at venerable Morgan Stanley also disclosed Thursday, involved 14 people, four major Wall Street firms, three hedge funds and at least $15 million in illicit profit, according to federal authorities.
'This involved people who should have known better and people who were making a great living,' said Linda Thomsen, enforcement director at the Securities and Exchange Commission. 'This is outrageous.'"
10:29:28 AM
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