TRACKING DOWN BODY COUNT STORIES IN IRAQ

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SEYMOUR HERSH IS FLYING BACK FROM SPAIN, and I have not been able to connect with him today. I have been trying to ask him if the story he has shared about friendly granary guards in Iraq being gunned down by U.S.

<em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> ON THE “BODY COUNT WAR”

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SEYMOUR HERSH CALLED IT RIGHT. Iraq has become a body count exercise, and we all need to be worried about the ramifications. The New York Times‘ Norimitsu Onishi asks in an article today “How Many Iraqis are Dying?” Best estimates for the past week: From Oct. 11 to Oct.

GEORGE W. BUSH’S FAITH-BASED PRESIDENCY

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RON SUSKIND LANDS THE BEST INDICTMENT YET of the Bush Administration’s hostility to reasoned, sensible and empirically-grounded policy making. Suskind writes: The nation’s founders, smarting still from the punitive pieties of Europe’s state religions, were adamant about erecting a wall between organized religion and political authority. But suddenly, that seems like a long time ago….