CBS Wrap-Up On Latest Shrub War Developments

CBS News has created a nice little round up of news information about the various horrible situations going on in Iraq and abroad.
Makes me wonder what CBS news has been like on TV lately. Looks like I’ll have to start checking out “Face The Nation.”

More Death In Baghdad

By the staff of CBS News.

Documents from Vice President Dick Cheney’s 2001 energy task force include a map of Iraq’s oilfields and a list of international oil companies labeled “foreign suitors for Iraqi oilfield contracts.” The panel also had similar maps and lists for other oil-producing states. Their purpose to the task force was unclear. The documents were obtained by Judicial Watch, a nonprofit group suing to force the release of task force documents.

Saddam is believed to be alive and probably hiding in Iraq, but is not orchestrating the daily attacks on American troops, says L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. administrator in the occupied country.
Bremer said Americans should prepare for a long stay in Iraq.
“It’s clear that, given the size of the task, we’re going to be there for a while,” he said Sunday on NBC. “I don’t know how many years.”
A Pentagon advisory panel suggested last week that coalition troops will need to remain in Iraq for at least two to five years to back up fledgling, postwar Iraqi police and military organizations.


Here is the full text of the article in case the link goes bad:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml
More Death In Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 21, 2003
Sgt. Luis R. Pinto, left, breaks down at a memorial service for Spc. Joel Bertoldie, at the U.S. Army base in Habbaniya, Iraq. On the right is Spc. Jeremy Brannon. (Photo: AP)
“The sooner we can either kill him or capture him, the better

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