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1. Robert Naiman: Obamas Decision on More Troops to "Someone Elses Civil …

   
   The Huffington Post — Authority 959
   civil war in Iraq. In November 2006, the New York Times reported that President Bush "dismissed suggestions that Iraq […] had descended into civil war," noting that while officials in other countries were "warning that Iraq is verging on civil […] war," Bush was "well aware that a label of civil war would make the Iraq mission even more difficult to justify." Not
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2. Government defends MoD bonuses

   
   The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 984
   ,000. A total of £288m has been paid out in bonuses to civil servants since 2003 – the year Britain went to war in Iraq […] • Johnson says jobs are difficult and sometimes dangerous • Families of war dead criticise bonuses totalling £47m The […] government today defended the Ministry of Defence payment system after it emerged that its civil servants shared £47m bonuses in
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3. MI6 chiefs to give evidence to Iraq inquiry

   
   The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 984
   Past and present heads of the Secret Intelligence Service to be questioned by Sir John Chilcots investigation into war […] Past and present chiefs of MI6 are to be among the first witnesses to give evidence to the official inquiry into the Iraq […] war, it was disclosed today. Sir John Scarlett, who retired as director general of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6
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4. Myths of Our Time

   
   Infowars — Authority 717
   , as it has done in Afghanistan. By invading Iraq the US started a civil war between Sunni and Shi […] noncombatants?  Vietnam had not attacked the US. The US had interjected itself into a civil war in a far off place […] ’ite.  In Pakistan the US has started a civil war between the religious tribal population and the secular US
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5. Kaplan: Civil Society Requires Perpetual War

   
   Matthew Yglesias — Authority 807
   Cold War, proved unable to muster the gumption to deal with Yugoslavia on its own, or, as the case of Afghanistan shows, to […] stand for besides a cradle-to-grave social welfare system? For without something to struggle for, there can be no civil […] their populations when it comes to questions of peace and war. Ironically, we may have gained victory in the Cold War, but
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6. Bonus payments for MoD staff criticised

   
   The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 984
   total of £288m has been paid out in bonuses to civil servants since 2003 – the year Britain went to war in Iraq – according […] • Civil servants were awarded bonuses totalling £47m • Mother of soldier killed in Helmand calls payout obscene The […] families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan condemned the Ministry of Defence last night for awarding its civil servants bonuses
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7. Bonus-earning civil servants do dangerous jobs. So, publish their casualty …

   
   Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority 794
   number of active British soldiers.Since the total paid out in bonuses to civil servants since 2003, when the Iraq war started […] Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, claims that civil servants do “difficult and sometimes dangerous jobs” that justify […] Afghanistan to support our troops who, of course, receive no bonuses at all.Have we stumbled upon a secret war that has previously
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8. Iraq: Preparing For The Civil War

   
   Alexandria — Authority 442
   for possible civil war. Couple this with the continued unemployment of the the Sunni Sons of Iraq and it won’t take much […] . Posted in Culture, Nation, Politics, Steve S., War, World Tagged: Civil war, democracy, Iraq […] to escalate into a full fledged civil war I would think. So what do we do? We could try to stay in large numbers for
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9. How Americas Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties

   
   The Huffington Post — Authority 959
   American soil. Yet surprisingly few Americans seem aware of the toll that this already endless war has taken on our civil […] . And consider these but some of the early fruits from the hybrid seeds that the Global War on Terror has planted on […] foreign land -- the Philippines from 1898 to 1913 -- were repatriated to the United States during World War I, becoming the
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10. Jonathan Weiler: Defending our Freedom

    
    The Huffington Post — Authority 959
    elsewhere. Even stalwart proponents of the war would have a hard time squaring the circle between our presence in Iraq and the […] general, preserves freedom. But hasnt our war-fighting often meant the opposite - a crackdown on civil liberties and an […] of war, our major organized sports - college and professional - have wanted to demonstrate their patriotic bonafides
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