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Wednesday August 6th, 2003

'We Cook Estimates to Go': Intelligence Must Never Just Serve Policy by RAY McGOVERN, former CIA analyst. Ray McGovern chaired NIEs and briefed the President's Daily Brief during his 27-year career at CIA.

I am a private first class in the Army's 671st Engineer Company out of Portland. I just wanted to let you know a little bit of what we are up to, maybe so that you can have another opinion of what's going on over here in Iraq.

An American civilian delivering mail to the U.S. Army died Tuesday when his truck was blown apart by a remote control bomb north of Tikrit, the military and his employer said.

The combat phase of the Afghan war is largely over, according to the Pentagon, but peace has been elusive.

The ideal legacy of the war in Iraq is a free and democratic society, but a sinister legacy of another kind is possible as well – cancers and birth defects. Depleted uranium weapons used by the U.S.-led forces in the war have left battle sites throughout Iraq contaminated with abnormally high levels of radiation.

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