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Thought for the Day: How easy it is to gloss over the pain of adolescence once we are older.

The Army is running out of fresh cannon fodder for the Iraq boondoggle and will have to make some tough choices soon. Don't count on a draft anytime soon, the warmongers can't afford to rile up the commoners just yet.

Foreign policy experts now believe what many of us have known for a long time. The illegal war of aggression in Iraq has made this country less safe. Well, at least 53 percent of them anyway.

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