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"When they need people, they keep them. When they don't, they implement their policy of discrimination," said the director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. The group found that "the number of gays dismissed from the military under the Pentagon's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy has dropped to its lowest level in nine years as U.S.

When George W. Bush visited Fort Campbell as a warm up to the one-year anniversary of the Iraq invasion, he was met by happy soldiers waving flags and chanting "U.S.A!" "Bush outlined the triumphs of the 101st Airborne as a way to describe U.S. successes in Iraq over the past year. He celebrated the division's killing of Hussein's sons, the capture of various Iraqi cities, the construction of schools and medical clinics, and the preparation for Iraqi elections," the Washington Post's Dana Milbank writes. But the warm welcome wasn't exactly spontaneous.

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has released a report and database that identifies 237 specific misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq uttered by the five Administration officials most responsible for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq: President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

"A year after the war in Iraq, discontent with America and its policies has intensified rather than diminished," concludes a new international survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. "Opinion of the United States in France and Germany is at least as negative now as at the war's conclusion, and British views are decidedly more critical. Perceptions of American unilateralism remain widespread in European and Muslim nations, and the war in Iraq has undermined America's credibility abroad.