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• To justify Iraq war: ‘Bush intentionally let Bin Laden get away’

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 588
  According to Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Democratic congressman from New York, ‘the Bush administration permitted the world’s most notorious terrorist mastermind to escape because it needed additional justification to invade Iraq.’ The lawmaker ‘accused President Bush of purposely letting Osama bin Laden escape ...
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• Karzais Fall

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 729
  The president beamed, the guests applauded. As Hamid Karzai was sworn in for his second term in office amid a throng of 800 international and domestic dignitaries on November 18, one could almost forget that his presidency is under a cloud, his international support hanging by a thread, and his domestic standing lower ...
  15 hours ago

• Senate Report: Rumsfeld Let Bin Laden Escape

  
  The Liberal Curmudgeon — Authority: 130
  The next time Dick Cheney criticizes President Obamas defense of the country in favor of the Bush record, remember which administration had Osama bin Laden in its grasp and let him go. A Senate report commissioned by Senator John Kerry (D-MA), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, concluded: ...
  15 hours ago

• Senate Report Blames Donald Rumsfeld for Osama bin Laden Still Being Not-Dead

  
  Indecision Forever — Authority: 576
  The U.S. Senate is today releasing a report entitled "Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today," which — if Im not mistaken — is a kind of modern retelling of Evelyn Waughs classic " Brideshead Revisted ." Except instead of dealing with "the unmerited and unilateral act of love ...
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• Remember When Conservatives Distrusted the Generals?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Dave’s insightful post on the Republicans’ Afghanistan strategy — try to use Gen. Stanley McChrystal as a cudgel against President Obama — is a good guide to next week’s testimony from the commander of the Afghanistan war . But when Bill Kristol frames the war as something conducted by McChrystal and Gen. ...
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• Osama bin Laden could have been captured back in December 2001

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 588
  The US is currently lamenting that if only it had sent a sufficient enough force to Afghanistan back in 2001, it would have already captured Osama bin Laden in December of hat year. ‘The Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s report says that a robust American force could have barred bin Laden’s escape in the ...
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• The Downside of Smart Power

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 729
  After ten months of waiting, USAID finally has a new chief: Rajiv Shah, currently the agriculture department’s top scientist. Directing the country’s principal agency for administering foreign aid is a heady position for someone who is all of 36. And it’s going to be a difficult one. Shah is stepping into the ...
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• Donald Rumsfeld’s (Lack of) Leadership Allowed Bin Laden to Escape

  
  From the Left — Authority: 497
  Sunday, November 29, 2009 In a skewering U.S. Senate report set for release tomorrow, Osama bin Laden was “within the grasp” of American forces in late 2001 but escaped because then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld rejected calls for reinforcements. The report is intended to help learn the lessons ...
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• Odds and ends for 11/29

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 437
  Policy misprescription: Switzerland has voted to ban construction of minarets . No good can come of this. In terms of confusing symptom with illness, it’s sort of like a doctor voting to ban coughing. And the Swiss are going to catch it both from the civil-libertarian community and from Muslims and their friends. ...
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• Iraq Inquiry: Third day of Public Hearings with Meyer, 26th November 2009

  
  Tony Blair — Authority: 434
  Original Home Page All Contents of Site – Index “Ban Blair-Baiting” petit ion - please sign Comment at end 3oth November, 2009 Iraq Inquiry: 3rd day of public hearings with Meyer By Julie This post, like the previous – 1st Day and the 2nd Day -  comes with my grateful thanks to Julie here ...
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• Cheney’s Withering Response to Senate Report on ‘Bin Laden Dithering’

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 538
  “IT’S PRETTY WELL-ESTABLISHED THAT CAPTURING BIN LADEN WOULD HAVE DISTRACTED US FROM DISTRACTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.”
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• Report: The Bush administration let Osama Bin Laden get away

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 524
  He was within grasp in 2001, but reinforcements weren’t sent. First off, let’s state the obvious: We’d still have terrorism troubles if Bin Laden were captured – though they might be less focused. However, a Senate report says that the U.S. was close to catching him in Afghanistan, only to drop the ball by ...
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• Senate report: Bin Laden was ‘Within Our Grasp’ in December 2001

  
  Turning Left — Authority: 137
  From the Associated Press : Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says. The report asserts that the failure to kill or ...
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• British Inquiry: Blair Conspired with Bush as Early as 2002 to Plot Iraq Invasion

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 143
  By Dave Lindorff , The Public Record , Nov 24, 2009 Tony Blair at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2009. Photo by Andy Mettler/flickr Most Americans are blissfully in the dark about it, but across the Atlantic in the UK, a commission reluctantly established by Prime Minister Gordon Brown ...
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• “Working the War Up Since Early 2002″ The Blair-Bush Conspiracy on Iraq

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  “Working the War Up Since Early 2002″ The Blair-Bush Conspiracy on Iraq By DAVE LINDORFF CounterPunch , November 25, 2009 M ost Americans are blissfully in the dark about it, but across the Atlantic in the UK, a commission reluctantly established by Prime ...
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• Dear Dairy – I’m trying not to hate Palin but

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 502
  Dear Diary – I’m trying hard not to hate or despise or vomit when I hear the words, Sarah Palin. It is not that she has bad ideas. It’s not that she has an odd way of phrasing things. It’s more than that. I guess you could say that she is a Robo-conservative. If you’re going to make a conservative ...
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• Fighting Ghosts & Shadow Governments

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  Fighting Ghosts & Shadow Governments Jim Kirwan 11-24-9 Rense Back in the beginning of the First obvious Dictatorship of the Twenty-first Century; when the Shadow Government of Dick Cheney became the new rulers of this nation and the greatest threat to actual world order: A massive new shadow ...
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• UK Inquiry: Blair Conspired with Bush as Early as February 2002 to Plot Iraq Invasion

  
  Democrats.com - The Aggressive Progressives! — Authority: 535
  By Dave Lindorff Most Americans are blissfully in the dark about it, but across the Atlantic in the UK, a commission reluctantly established by Prime Minister Gordon Brown under pressure from anti-war activists in Britain is beginning hearings into the actions and statements of British leaders that led to the ...
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• The Geopolitics behind the phoney US war in Afghanistan

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  The Geopolitics behind the phoney US war in Afghanistan By F. William Engdahl , 21 October 2009 One of the most remarkable aspects of the Obama Presidential agenda is how little anyone has questioned in the media or elsewhere why at all the United States Pentagon is committed to a military occupation of ...
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• Mister Peabody Visits the Middle East in 1953

  
  Anonymous Arabist ??? ????? — Authority: 125
  And gives Sherman a little lesson in what the CIA has been up to since then in the region. I love it! I never realized how talky Mister Peabody and Sherman cartoons were until now. Makes it easy to replace the original dialogue with dialogue of your own, if you’re a talented voice artist. I must have learned a lot ...
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