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• Concerns widen on waits for Iraq gear

  - 2008-02-28

  WASHINGTON -- Four U.S. senators have asked the Defense Department for a sweeping review of the Pentagon's failures to quickly get troops in Iraq "the best possible equipment," including armored vehicles that protect against some of the most lethal types of roadside bombs. The request, contained...

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• More truth from candidates would benefit the country

  - 2008-02-06

  With John Edwards' suspension of his presidential campaign, Americans will have to find another way to speak out effectively against those who are destroying the American Dream ("Edwards ends 2008 presidential run," News, Thursday). Edwards was the only candidate who spoke honestly about the failure of...

  Tags: benefit, Government, Iraq, Leadership, U.S., USA Today, White House

• Remembering 2007: From the Middle East to the NFL

  - 2007-12-31

  Success of surge The turning of the tide of war in Iraq is the most significant story of 2007. The once questioned "surge" has proved to be not only what was needed to start bringing Iraq under control but also what was needed to show the...

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• Desertion distortion

  - 2007-12-24

  ITEM: The Associated Press reported on November 16: "Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003." ITEM: On November...

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• Pentagon slow to spend on safety for US troops in Iraq

  - 2007-09-04

  WASHINGTON AFP — The Pentagon often has dragged its feet or refused to spend on safer equipment for US troops in Iraq, forcing the Congress to step in, a study published on Tuesday found. The report published in USA Today came as a crucial report on the military situation...

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• Clinton: Treatment of troops 'outrageous'

  - 2007-04-12

  FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- One by one, their eyes on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, more than 40 soldiers recited a somber roll call: name, rank, company and where in Iraq or Afghanistan they had been wounded. Later, after hearing their tales of chaos, confusion and shabby...

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• Book buzz

  - 2007-03-08

  Woodruffs' memoir rising: A major media campaign helped launch healthy first-week sales for Lee and Bob Woodruff's In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing. It's No. 7 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list. In an Instant is the account of the ABC World News anchor's long recovery...

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• Nearly two-thirds in US want troops back from Iraq by end-2008

  - 2007-02-13

  WASHINGTON AFP — Nearly two-thirds of Americans -- 63 percent -- want US troops home from Iraq by the end of 2008, according to a new poll. One month after US President George W. Bush announced a plan to expand the number of US soldiers in Iraq by 21,500,...

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• Hyde leaving Congress with mixed feelings

  - 2006-12-08

  WASHINGTON -- The retiring Republican chairman of the House International Relations Committee on Thursday delivered a blunt description of the challenge facing U.S. policymakers on Iraq. "We need to find a way to get out of Iraq that doesn't cover us with dishonor," Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., said in an...

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• Perspectives of war hit home in soldiers' stories

  - 2005-11-10

  War stories are as old as The Iliad, Homer's epic poem about the Greek conquest of Troy more than 2,000 years ago. In honor of Veterans Day Friday, USA TODAY's Bob Minzesheimer reviews five new books about war, told from the perspective of more recent soldiers. My War: Killing...

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