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In memo, Iraq war general noted readiness problems

The Sanchez memo said, in part, "I cannot continue to support sustained combat operations with rates this low." He was referring to the Army's readiness rates, which measure unit strength and how well equipment has been maintained.

The rate had fallen to 84 percent for Abrams main battle tanks, 85 percent for Bradley armored fighting vehicles and between 63 and 72 percent for Army helicopters.

At the time, Sanchez noted that the Army was struggling to maintain even those relatively low readiness rates and warned he could not ensure sustained combat operations could continue if the problem was not fixed.

[...] At a rally in West Palm Beach, Kerry said that after the Sanchez memo was sent, "George Bush went out and told the American people" that the troops were properly equipped.

"Despite the president's arrogant boasting that he's done everything right in Iraq and that he's made no mistakes, the truth is beginning to come out, and it's beginning to catch up with him," Kerry said.

Bush did argue in December, and has argued since, that the troops were properly equipped. It was not immediately clear whether the president knew about the Sanchez memo.

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Is Every Memory Worth Keeping?: Controversy Over Pills to Reduce Mental Trauma

never mind the dangling modifier

Man Robs Bank Wearing George W. Bush Mask

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Particle Smasher to Recreate Big Bang

swiped from rialian

Sinclair Fires Critic of Plan to Broadcast Anti-Kerry Film

Ugh.

I went to the drugstore and picked up a tube of Neosporin lip treatment, because my lips crack painfully. I saw a commercial for it, so I thought I'd give it a try.

I just looked at the tube more closely.

Manufactured by Pfizer.

Even when I want to boycott their products, I slip up!

This makes me happy.

Sinclair's stock price tumbled another 8 percent on monday. The company's stock has dropped 25 percent since Sinclair announced it was planning to run the partisan film.

More than 75 Sinclair advertisers around the country have now pulled their television commercials from Sinclair stations.

More Sinclair Sins

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Actuarial templates mess with manners
and toss too-soon placards toward tiny
swans. Temptation. My love sweats forward
and rises untorn. Who knows what goes
forsworn. We snuggle up to the cypress,
remembering the lights of those gone
before. The bark, the land, the edge
of loose lumber. The sail. We want to rest there.