Audie Murphy, the most highly decorated American in World War II, said that he went crazy when he saw a buddy die so he went out and killed a lot of German soldiers. Gentle Sgt. Alvin York of World War I responded much the same way.
In a year it is wrestling with an out-of-control budget, a war going badly, and one impasse on immigration and another on its own ethics, the Senate is taking time out to debate altering the U.S. Constitution by adding the Marriage Protection Amendment.
The military is close to finishing its investigation into the alleged Marine massacre of civilians in Haditha, according to Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., who was briefed by the two top U.S. generals in Iraq over the weekend.
U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, the drug-abusing son of Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy, has been released from a drug rehabilitation program a month after crashing his car into a cement barrier and admitting a dependency on prescription drugs.
In an act of cynical futility aimed at rallying an extremist base, President George W. Bush Monday invoked a carnival atmosphere to push an anti-gay marriage amendment that has no chance of passing either the House or Senate.
Military commanders in the field in Iraq admit in private reports to the Pentagon the war "is lost" and that the U.S. military is unable to stem the mounting violence killing 1,000 Iraqi civilians a month.
Military commanders in the field in Iraq admit in private reports to the Pentagon the war “is lost” and that the U.S. military is unable to stem the mounting violence killing 1,000 Iraqi civilians a month.
Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of the world’s fourth-largest oil exporter, said Sunday that if the United States makes a “wrong move” toward his country, energy flows in the region would be endangered, triggering a new oil crisis.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his Vietnamese counterpart agreed Monday to boost military exchanges between former battlefield enemies.