Following a large-scale offensive in Fallujah, about 5,000 U.S., British and Iraqi troops launched an offensive Tuesday, designed to quell a recent increase in violence among insurgent forces in several towns south of Baghdad. The series of raids and house searches was the third large-scale military operation this month, aimed at suppressing Iraq’s Sunni Muslim […]
Author Archives: Richard Clough
UCLA student, veteran writes off war
When President Bush gave Saddam Hussein a 48-hour ultimatum to leave Iraq in March 2003, Jasaun Neff faced one of the toughest decisions of his life. Neff, a 25-year-old U.S. Army veteran who left active duty in 2000, was torn between the duty to serve his country and the feeling that a war in Iraq […]
Bush’s mission accomplished
By Richard Clough bruin senior staff rclough@media.ucla.edu After a close vote count in Ohio threatened to drag out the presidential election results for several days, President Bush was declared the winner Wednesday morning, ending one of the most brutal and aggressive presidential campaigns in U.S. history. At about 11 a.m. EST, Sen. John Kerry conceded […]
Decidedly divided
Echoes of the 2000 presidential election rang out Tuesday as a bitterly divided electorate left the vote count too close to determine an official winner. While President Bush won the popular vote Tuesday with 3.6 million votes more than Sen. John Kerry, the electoral vote was too close to call and there were too many […]
Into the hands of voters
As the culmination of months of preparation, hundreds of speeches delivered and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, Election Day has arrived. Though President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have campaigned at breakneck paces of late, the outcome of the election now rests squarely on the voting public. With a polarized electorate in an evenly […]
Mexico forum draws crowd
About 150 people filled a Royce lecture hall Tuesday as three governors from Mexico visited UCLA to discuss what they see as the present and future of Mexico. Manuel Andrade of the state of Tabasco, Lázaro Cárdenas of the state of Michoacán and Juan Carlos Romero of the state of Guanajuato presented an optimistic future […]
UCSA registers 30,000 voters
The University of California Students Association announced last week that it registered 30,000 new voters for the Nov. 2 election. In a highly anticipated and hotly contested election, voter registration has increased across the country compared to previous presidential elections. With the Oct. 18 deadline for California voter registration already passed, registrars across the state […]