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[Rick Faurot]

War News for August 20 and 21, 2004 draft
Bring ‘em on: Two US Marines killed in fighting in al-Anbar province.

Bring ‘em on: Two US soldiers killed, three wounded by roadside bomb ambush near Samarra.

Bring ‘em on: Two Iraqis killed, four wounded in ambush of US convoy near Baquba.

Bring ‘em on: Thirteen Iraqis killed, 107 wounded in fighting in Baghdad during last 24 hours.

Bring ‘em on: Seventy-seven Iraqis killed, 70 wounded in fighting in Najaf during last 24 hours.

Bring ‘em on: Heavy fighting reported in Kufa.

Bring ‘em on: Dutch patrol ambushed in Samawah; two Iraqis killed.

Bring ‘em on: US Army patrol ambushed near Khalis.

Bring ‘em on: One Polish soldier killed, six wounded by car bomb near Hilla.

Bring ‘em on: Pipeline sabotaged near Kirkuk.

Bring ‘em on: Pipeline sabotaged near Amarah.

Bring ‘em on: One US soldier killed, two wounded in Baghdad RPG ambush.

Bring ‘em on: Senior Iraqi police official assassinated near Ramadi.

Bring ‘em on: Bulgarian troops shelled near Karbala.

Bring ‘em on: Three Iraqi policemen killed in bombing at Nasiriyah police station.

Bring ‘em on: Two Polish soldiers killed, five wounded in ambush near Hilla.

Bring ‘em on: Two Iraqis killed, eleven wounded in two US air strikes in Fallujah.

Local story: Colorado soldier killed in Iraq.

Local story: Connecticut soldier killed in Iraq.

Local story: Washington State Marine killed in Iraq.

Local story: California Marine killed in Iraq.

Local story: Tennessee Marine killed in Iraq.

Local story: Indiana soldier killed in Iraq.

Local story: Two California Marines killed in Iraq.

Local story: Virginia Marine killed in Iraq.

Local story: Ohio soldier killed in Iraq.

Local story: Ohio Marine dies in Iraq.

Local story: Virginia Marine killed in Iraq.

Local story: Oregon soldier injured in Iraq.

Local story: Massachusetts Marine wounded in Iraq.

Local story: Alabama Guardsman wounded in Iraq.

Local story: Alabama Guardsmen wounded in Iraq.

Local story: New York soldier wounded in Iraq.

Local story: New York airman wounded in Iraq.

http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com/

[Rick Faurot]

Ex-Bush supporter endorses Kerry
Retired Air Force general appears in TV ad for senator
ELLYN FERGUSON
Statesman Journal
August 21, 2004

WASHINGTON — Battling attacks on presidential candidate John Kerry’s war record, Democrats today will begin running a television ad in Oregon and 20 other states featuring former Republican and retired Air Force Gen. Merrill McPeak of Oregon.

McPeak, who lives in Lake Oswego, said that Kerry has a “real strategy to make America safer” and would be a better leader than President Bush.

The Democratic ad starts airing today on national cable networks and local media markets in states the Democratic National Committee thinks are competitive. The independent expenditure arm of the DNC is paying for the ad but by law cannot coordinate such actions with the Kerry campaign.

In the ad, which was filmed Thursday, McPeak says that he endorsed Bush in 2000 but is backing Kerry now.

“Nothing is more important to me than protecting America,” says McPeak, a fighter pilot in Vietnam who rose to leadership in the Persian Gulf War in 1991. “John Kerry has the strength and common sense we need in a commander in chief.”

McPeak, the Air Force chief of staff under the first President Bush and President Clinton, told reporters Friday that he had been impressed with Kerry’s toughness and integrity in his official dealings with him through the years.

McPeak said he broke with the president regarding the war in Iraq.

“What I’m against is amateur hour (in Iraq) — the sloppiness in the postwar phase,” he said

http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=85466
http://www.usndemvet.com/blog/archives/002007.html