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The-World-Will-Be-A-Safer-Place-Without Saddam

• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,343 AP

• Truck bomb kills at least 19 in northern Iraq AP

• Afghan reporters blame NATO for colleague's death AP

• Fraud watchdog invalidates some Afghan votes

• Netanyahu risks US anger by building settlements

Baghdad Bucks

Federal investigators are searching for suspicious transactions in the personal bank records of a retired Army colonel who ran the contracting office in Baghdad during the early stages of Iraq's $125 billion reconstruction.

Disturbing News

• 221, including many children, missing after Sierra Leone boat capsizes AFP

• Report: Japan executes mentally ill prisoners AP

"President Obama delivered a speech to America's schoolchildren. And he encouraged them to work hard and study hard. Yeah, then he said if that doesn't work, grab the seat next to the Asian kid." --Conan O'Brien
 

Republican-Shenanigans News

• Recorded sex comments cost Calif. lawmaker his job AP

• US Supreme Court may loosen election cash rules

"Some Republicans were so mad about Obama's speech to schoolchildren, they had Dick Cheney give a rebuttal. He showed kids the proper way to stuff a geek into a locker." --Craig Ferguson

Former Bush White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card said Wednesday he is "thinking very seriously" about launching a campaign for the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Rock-The-Voter News

• FACT CHECK: Obama uses iffy math on deficit pledge

"President Obama addressed the United States schoolchildren. He had like a speech and it went right to the classes and the kids. Then I thought, wait a minute. He might be trying a little too hard. You know what I'm talking about? At the end he invited all the kids to the White House for a beer." --David Letterman
 

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Biz-Tech News

• Oil climbs above $72 as US dollar slumps

• U.S. recession ends, jobless outlook bleak: survey

• Labor Department exposes goods made by child labor AP

• Report: Gov't agency waives rules for shippers

• China protests against U.S. steel pipes tariffs

"Labor Day is the great American holiday where we honor American workers by going out and buying products made in China." --David Letterman

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• New Photos of 9/11 Terrorist Mastermind

• Lawyers: Uighurs agree to go to Palau The Associated Press

• DOD lawyer stops short of assuring Gitmo closing The Associated Press

"There's rumors that Dick Cheney, Vice President Dick Cheney, may run for president in 2012. 2012. No, no. That's his cholesterol." --David Letterman
 

Go-F**k-Yourself News

• Cheney International Center to be dedicated at UW KTVQ-TV

• Lynne Cheney to speak at Montpelier's Constitution Day The Free Lance-Star

"The President also said that kids -- he told them if they study hard, the United States will continue to prosper. Then he added, 'But just to be safe, bone up on your Chinese.'" --Jimmy Fallon

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