Heres a quick roundup of stories which may be of interest . . .

Survey: Bush, Kerry Tied In Missouri Forget the stories of a big lead by either candudate in this state: Its neck and neck.

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PAUL KRUGMAN discusses The Dishonesty Thing
Could it be? There appears to be some sort of a pattern here . . .

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Ellsberg Urges Insiders to Leak Iraq Info
Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department official who leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam war, is urging government insiders to provide similar classified documents about the invasion of Iraq.

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Bush's military service in question again
Note: This is a focus on the official paper trail (released February), and not the CBS docs:
Records appear to show that the president failed to fulfill his duty to the Air National Guard. A new examination of payroll records and other documents released by the White House earlier this year appear to confirm critics' assertions that President George W. Bush failed to fulfill his duty to the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War . . .

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Forget Bush
So urges Molly Ivins. Focus instead on this theory about how to choose a president. "It didn't matter who was running, that it was unnecessary to pay any attention to them. What matters, he said, is the approximately 1,500 people the president brings to Washington with him, his appointments to the positions where people actually run things. The question to consider is which 1,500 people we get."

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Hiding the bodies
During August, Iraqi insurgents proved themselves more capable of inflicting casualties on American troops than ever before. Sixty-six American soldiers were killed and more than 1,100 were wounded, according to information released by the Department of Defense. But even with extensive coverage of the intense conflict in Najaf last month, the U.S. media was relatively quiet about the cost of battle to U.S. soldiers . . .

That cost has been steadily rising for months, says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a think tank in Washington specializing in military and international security issues. "The amount of combat that U.S. soldiers are seeing is going up, but the amount of combat the American public is seeing is going down," he says. "Iraq has almost turned into the forgotten war it's just faded into the background."

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Bitter truth unfolds about Iraqi's memorial sculpture
You can't always trust what you read on the Internet.

Fairbanks veterans and the local media were taken in by a patriotic e-mail last spring that twisted the truth.

The widely circulating e-mail included a photo of a bronze war memorial sculpture said to have been made by an Iraqi artist who had been forced to make bronze busts of former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein until American troops arrived.

The e-mail said that the artist was so grateful for the presence of the U.S. troops that he melted down three bronze Saddam busts toppled by his countrymen, and cast the memorial sculpture from the molten metal as a tribute to American soldiers in Iraq and their fallen comrades.

Local veterans responded by having the memorial duplicated in ice at the World Ice Art Championships in March, and the News-Miner and other local media responded with stories and film about the bronze memorial and its icy local rendition.

The ice sculpture melted months ago, and the bronze original, shipped to Fort Hood in Texas, was respectfully dedicated last week in tribute to the 80 members of the 4th Infantry Division and one civilian who lost their lives in battle.

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