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Gulf War Illness
ANNE USHER/Cox News Service
WASHINGTON - At least one in four U.S. veterans of the 1991 Gulf War suffers from a multi-symptom illness caused by exposure to toxic chemicals during the conflict, a congressionally mandated report being released Monday found.For much of the past 17 years, government officials have maintained that these veterans — [...]

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(WASHINGTON) — Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President Bush promised Wednesday to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan by year’s end. He conceded that June was a “tough month” in the nearly seven-year-old war.
In fact, it was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the conflict began. More [...]

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Tony Blair has said he wants to spend the rest of his life bringing the religions of the world together.
On the eve of the launch of his “faith foundation”, the former prime minister also said faith had given him the courage to make unpopular decisions he knew were right during his 10 years in office.
In [...]

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Drash - It’s unspeakably disappointing to me that it has taken THIS long for those near the “top of the political food chain” to come to grips with the deception and propaganda that marks the Bush Administration…  Those whose consciences have not long left them had realized from the OUTSET that the Iraq venture was based on [...]

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Logical Fallacies
by James W. Benham and Thomas J. Marlowe

Ad hominem arguments are the tools of scoundrels and blackguards. Therefore, they are invalid.
If you had any consideration for my feelings, you wouldn’t argue from an appeal to pity.
What would your mother say if you argued from an appeal to sentiment?
I don’t understand how anyone could argue [...]

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