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Michael Gordon/IHT: Critique of postwar Iraq planning stifled by U.S. Army "There was never an attempt to develop a single national plan that integrated humanitarian assistance, reconstruction, governance, infrastructure development and postwar security," the study said. :: :: :: Ian Traynor/Guardian: Bush orders clampdown on flights to US The US administration is pressing the 27 governments of the European Union to sign up for a range of new security measures for transatlantic travel, including allowing armed guards on all flights from Europe to America by US airlines. :: :: :: Congress having lent it's best and brightest to the cameras and taken yet another vacation, the other two branches are left to make their own law. Which leaves us looking like those tiny bubbles in the ice: breathing, coherent, held in suspension until heat is applied. :: :: :: [Image: CSIRO.au]