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Friday, May 18, 2007 12:00 AM

The secret Iraq documents my 8-year-old found

With a couple of keystrokes, you too can read the hidden history of the Coalition Provisional Authority, America's late, unlamented occupation government in Iraq.

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Friday, May 18, 2007 05:35 AM

Well, That Didn't Take Long!

Another blow for Freedom of Information:

As of this morning, it appears that the Consolidated Weekly Reports for April 2 2004 and earlier have been pulled from the website. The remaining reports are either PDF files, or Word Docs that don't (at least to me) show previous text.

I guess someone is catching hell this morning.

Friday, May 18, 2007 06:38 AM

I've got your deletion right here!

"Its worst miscalculation was probably dissolving the Iraqi military on May 16, 2003, which jump-started the insurgency by sending 400,000 trained soldiers into the streets without jobs."

Actually, those 400,000 trained soldiers were sent home with their weapons, mostly Kalishnikovs.

Um, here you are. An unemployed soldier. A family to support. No food on the table. And there's that AK-47 propped up against the bedroom wall.

What to do? What to do?

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