Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio.) released the following statement after nearly 90,000 classified reports on the war in Afghanistan leaked via the website Wikileaks:
“These documents provide a fuller picture of what we have long known about Afghanistan: the war is going badly. It’s important to debate our presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan now,” wrote Kucinich in a press release Monday.
Colombia, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, oil export At least 200 structures have been destroyed and 1,100 damaged after a dam on an eastern Iowa lake failed. The dam failed due to massive rain Saturday and Gov. Chet Culver said that 10 inches of rain had recently fallen in a 12-hour period. No injuries were reported.
Gov. Chet Culver, Iowa, dam Seventeen months ago, a commuter plane crashed into a suburban house outside Buffalo, N.Y. killing all 49 people on board and one on the ground. Since then, advocates have been pushing Congress to act on increasing pilot safety regulations but these attempts have been negated by the inability to organize an advocacy union. This struggle has stalled action on a wide-ranging bill whose main purpose is to fund the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) through 2012. The FAA is currently drafting its own proposals to set more-stringent pilot-training standards and modify work conditions, including rest time, based on scientific research.
From today’s New York Times……..”Secret military field reports that were made public Sunday revealed that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand in the war in Afghanistan. This, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants.”
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