BAGHDAD – Private security companies, funded by billions of dollars in U.S. military and State Department contracts, are fighting insurgents on a widening scale in Iraq, enduring daily attacks, returning fire and taking hundreds of casualties that have been underreported and sometimes concealed, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials and company representatives.

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Private army faces growing danger

Private armies?? Private security forces?? Seems to me these guys used to operate under different names, I think they were called mercenaries maybe?? Or ’spooks’, depending on who was writing out the pay check…

BAGHDAD (AP) – The U.S. military, which just days ago completed its latest troop buildup in Iraq, has launched a large offensive operation in several al-Qaida strongholds around Baghdad, the top U.S. commander said Saturday. Gen. David Petraeus said the operation began in the last 24 hours, and will put forces into key areas surrounding Baghdad that, according to intelligence, al-Qaida is using to base some of it car bomb operations.

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US Launches New Offensive Around Baghdad

And if done correctly, and not micromanaged to death by Bush in his desperate attempt to conduct a PC war, there can be some good come out of this, and if not, look for another high ranking military commander to be forced into resignation… I seriously wonder how long it will be before Bush has the military so ‘ham-strung’ that they’ll be forced to shout, “Halt!! Or I’ll… Uh, wait… Halt, or I’ll call in and ask for instructions… ” They’ve already rendered our Border Patrol pretty much useless with that same ROE, so don’t say it can’t happen…

SEOUL (AP) — North Korea sent a letter to the United Nations nuclear watchdog Saturday, inviting inspectors to the isolated country to discuss shutting down its main nuclear reactor, state media reported.  

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N. Korea sends invite to U.N. nuclear inspectors

Who do you trust?? North Korea or the U.N.?? Wait… That’s a ‘no win’ either way… Sorry…

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday that fathers have to share the responsibility for raising children and caring for families because their role doesn’t end at conception. Days before Father’s Day, the first-term Illinois senator and father of two daughters delivered his life message as well as an assessment of what government needs to do in remarks at a Baptist church.

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Obama Calls on Fathers to Be Responsible

Osama, Uh, Oops, Obama must be thinking about the most confusing day in the ghetto, and it’s tomorrow, Fathers Day… Seems like every time Fathers Day rolls around some politician gets on a soap box and starts screaming about the responsibility Fathers needs to assume, and as soon as Fathers Day has passed, or that particular Pol has either raised all the money he needs or gets elected, he completely loses interest in the responsibility that Fathers need to extend… Amazing… Remember this, any man can be a Father, it takes someone special to be a Dad, and it’s not a political issue either…

FOX NEWS – Some Hispanic leaders lashed out Friday at California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s advice that immigrants should “turn off the Spanish television set” to better learn how to speak English. Schwarzenegger, who immigrated to the U.S. from Austria, recently told a group of Hispanic journalists that immigrants should stay away from Spanish-language television, books and newspapers.  

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Hispanic Leaders Won’t Take Schwarzenegger’s Advice

Of course they came out against it, the wetbacks don’t want to be a part of America, all they want it to take FROM America…