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Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Do you feel a draft?   WASHINGTON (AP) — Digging deeper for help in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army is recalling to active duty about 5,600 people who recently left the service and still have a reserve obligation. In a new sign of the strain the insurgency in Iraq has put on the U.S. military, Army officials said Tuesday the involuntary callups will begin in July and run through December. It is the first sizable activation of the Individual Ready Reserve since the 1991 Gulf War, though several hundred people have voluntarily returned to service since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. 9:31:51 PM    comment []

Robert Scheer rains all over the new, improved, sovereign Iraq parade in an editorial in today’s LATimes. It seems interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, has quite a resume! Everybody knows about his former Baathist party connections, but did you know he led a CIA-financed insurgency where your tax dollar went to good use teaching how to make car bombs? Hardly anyone in this country remembers that, but apparently a few Iraqis do. Anyway, now he wants to postpone elections and impose martial law – and guess who the marshals are?   So, then, who is defending our country? 5:33:04 AM    comment []