political nonsense

A total of 3,196 active-duty soldiers deserted the Army last year, or 853 more than previously reported, according to revised figures from the Army. An army spokesperson said the soldiers probably deserted due to personal, family, or financial problems.
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Iranian forces seized 15 British Royal Navy personnel who had searched a merchant ship on Friday, Britain said, triggering a diplomatic crisis at a time of heightened tensions over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
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Former President Bill Clinton said it wasn’t fair the way his wife, presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), was being treated. Hillary Clinton is being depicted as being pro-Iraq War because she voted for it.
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Scientists proved that vampires don’t exist.

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The US government started using Wikipedia as an intelligence source.
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Scientists at New York University were deleting frightening experiences from the memories of rats. “This,” said neurophysiologist Greg Quirk, “is the future of psychiatry.”
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Money sent home by Latin American migrant laborers now exceeds direct foreign investment and foreign aid to Latin America.
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At a military hearing in Guantánamo Bay Khalid Sheik Mohammed confessed to being the mastermind of the September 11 attacks;
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Researchers were developing a computer program to help make end-of-life medical decisions.
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Eighty percent of Iraqis were reporting “attacks nearby,” and Kadhim al-Jubouri, an Iraqi weightlifter who toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein in 2003, said that Saddam “was like Stalin. But the occupation is proving to be worse.”

[better than bush]
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The US military is expanding two major prisons in Iraq ahead of an expected rise in Iraqi prisoners from the new crackdown in Baghdad. Thousands of prisoners are expected on top of the 17,000 already behind bars.
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The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to consider voting on a Democratic plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.
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The Iraqi President went to the hospital for ten days because he was really tired.
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The FBI is guilty of “serious misuse” of the power to secretly obtain private information under the Patriot Act, a government audit said Friday.
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President Bush was touring Central and South America. At a news conference in Brazil he said,

My trip is to explain as clearly as I can that our nation is generous and compassionate.”

Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, was also on tour. Speaking to a crowd in Uruguay he said,

“The little imperial gentleman from the north must be across the river by now. Let’s send him a big shout: ‘Gringo go home!’”

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Captain America was murdered.

[dead]
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The United Nations reported that 2 million Iraqis, including the judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death, have fled their country since the war began; according to the State Department, the United States has accepted 500 of those refugees.
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Newt Gingrich admitted that he was carrying on an extramarital affair while pursuing the impeachment of Bill Clinton but maintained that his behavior was “not related to what happened.”
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A majority of people believe that Israel, the United States and Iran have a mainly negative influence in the world, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.

The three countries are closely followed by North Korea.
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Insurgents killed 149 Shi’ite pilgrims in Iraq, and President Bush said we were making “gradual but important” progress.

[tard]
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