Salon: "Some headlines hurting Bush not directly related to campaign"

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http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/10/29/bad_news/index.html

Thursday, there was new horror from Iraq: 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. Voters were reminded in the week before the election that the cost in dollars is soaring too. "Think how far that society has come from the days of torture chambers and mass graves,'' Bush said in Saginaw, Mich. "Freedom is on the march!''

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.

Bush's camp prides itself on its professionalism, but his re-election 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. The campaign said the ad will be re-edited and reshipped to TV stations.

[DrZeeLit]

1. Ooooh...* don't look none too happy. (yippeee kai-yea, MF) n/t

[The Chronicler]

2. Bush is incapable of putting his hands in his pockets. Ever.

[htuttle]

3. Bar used to slap him if he put his hands in his pockets

He's probably got a complex about it now...

[The Chronicler]

4. Is that true?

Bush walks like a monkey because of it.

[htuttle]

5. It's one of those things that, whether or not it's factually correct,

is still 'True'.

:)