Yellow Dog

Surging violence and missing explosives in Iraq:
--400 tons of explosives disappeared from Iraq's Al-Qaqaa military installation (Mayor Giuliani blamed the troops)
--Insurgents slaughtered 11 Iraqi soldiers, beheading one, then shooting the others execution-style.
--Two more U.S. soldiers were killed — one in a car bombing in Baghdad, and the other in an ambush near Balad, 40 miles north of the capital. More than 1,100 U.S. service members have died since Bush launched the Iraq war in March 2003.
--A new survey of deaths in Iraqi households estimates that as many as 100,000 more people may have died throughout the country in the 18 months since the U.S.-led invasion than would be expected based on the death rate before the war.
--Bush plans to send Congress a request of up to $75 billion early next year for additional money to finance wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and operations against terrorism, congressional aides said earlier this week. That's on top of $215 billion that lawmakers have provided since 2001 to wage war in Iraq and Afghanistan and begin rebuilding those countries.

The FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon improperly awarded no-bid military contracts to Halliburton Co., formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney.

The Bush campaign acknowledged Thursday that it had doctored a photograph used in a television commercial to remove the president and the podium where he was standing and add more people to the audience to make it look like there was a bigger crowd present.

Dishonesty. Incompetence. The headline should read "Lack of Critical Thinking Dogs Bush Voters."


Yahoo! News - Bad News Dogs Bush As Election Nears