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• President Signs 2010 Defense Budget Into Law

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 448
  Defense officials are hailing passage of the fiscal 2010 budget that funds military programs and wartime operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and provides a military pay raise. President Barack Obama signed the 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act into law Dec. 19 after the Senate approved it during a rare ...
  2 days ago

• 2009: The Year of Obama

  
  A Political Season — Authority: 116
  By George Friedman - Honorary Political Season Contributor President Barack Obama’s speech in Oslo marking his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize was eloquent, as most of his speeches are. It was also enigmatic — both for its justification of war and for his speaking on behalf of the international community ...
  3 days ago

• Wind Down, Wind UP!

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 146
  it is relatively easy for political leaders in Washington D.C. to utter remarks about winding down military operations in Iraq while at the same time dispatching 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. There is need to identify which pieces of equipment go where, will the same equipment which has worked in Iraq also be ...
  4 days ago

• Iran Siezes Iraqi Oil Well: Commentary

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 546
  Does anybody besides me remember the remilitarization of the Rhineland? Or that that unopposed action was followed by the Austrian Anschluss? Or the Obersalzberg conference that brought forth “Peace in Our Time” for Sir Neville Chamberlain? Or the occupation of the Sudetenland followed closely by the ...
  5 days ago

• Whats the CBO score for Iraq/Afghanistan?

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 487
  TPM: Breaking on Capitol Hill: The CBO score of the final Senate health care bill is in, with an $871 billion price tag. Thats up from the last score, $849 billion. President Obama is expected to speak at 1:30 p.m. and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid thinks he has 60 votes.
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• As Obama continues to talk, Iran makes an act of war against Iraq and US-protected interests.

  
  Daily Danet — Authority: 139
  As Obama continues to talk, Iran makes an act of war against Iraq and US-protected interests.
  6 days ago

• BREAKING! Iran Seizes Iraqi Oil Well – Testing Obama?

  
  Founding Bloggers — Authority: 634
  [via Voting Female] President Obama doesn’t exactly have these guys quaking in their boots. As a result, their boots are on the march. Iraqi official: Iranians seized Iraqi oil well
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• Lets Talk About Torture!

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 618
  "Merca doesnt torture." - His Imperial Majesty, George Bush II "I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesnt torture. And Im gonna make sure that we dont torture." - Barack Muddib Jesus Christ Obama The end of judicially sanctioned torture was ...
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• December 16, 2009

  
  Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? — Authority: 128
  1.  Awesome.  Too bad there is NO judicial independence in the US: “Federal Judge in Germany: Numerous 9/11 Theories Screaming For Investigation Federal Judge Dieter Deiseroth: It is very unfortunate that the media is not prepared to face the issue of 9/11 and ask the unanswered questions Question: Do you think ...
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• Speaking of "demonstrably false ..."

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 802
  Honest to God, the effort to rewrite history by various members of the Bush administration has gone beyond ridiculous. During Sundays interview on "60 Minutes," President Obama explained why his speech announcing the escalation of troops in Afghanistan didnt include a promise of victory: I think that one ...
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• Blackwaters Dark Side?

  
  An American Gothic — Authority: 103
  Keeping up with the Blackwater saga has been one of my favorite hobbies ever since this outfit made it into Iraq. Published on Sunday, December 13, 2009 by CommonDreams.org The Blackness of Blackwater by Christopher Brauchli How now, you secret, black and midnight hags! - Shakespeare, Macbeth The good news ...
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• When Life Was Simpler

  
  Regaining the Center — Authority: 124
  In a strange pattern of behavior, former Vice President Cheney was again on talk television and offering his take on President Obama. Certainly everyone is entitled to their opinion. Some, such as historians and social commentators, provide important perspectives. The world is always changing and judging one ...
  1 week ago

• Avengers for Allah

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 546
  In recent weeks, a renewed epidemic of suicide bombings has swept Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, climaxing in huge blasts in Baghdad that killed 130 innocents on Tuesday. The Obama administration says these bombings have nothing to do with religion. Its purely coincidental that the perps preach severe Islam. ...
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• Af-Pak War Racket

  
  The Konformist Blog — Authority: 437
  http://ampedstatus.com/af-pak-war-racket-the-obama-illusion-comes-crashing-down Af-Pak War Racket: The Obama Illusion Comes Crashing Down Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 By David DeGraw, AmpedStatus Report Report Contents: ————I: Troop Deployments ————II: The Militarized Economy ————III: ...
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• Passion fades for Barack Obama, the perfect poster boy

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  Like many others, I fell for Barack Obama somewhere in the middle of Bushs second term, writes Gill Hornby.
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• Robert Fisk: "Obama won the Nobel Prize for public speaking"

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 132
  kinda seems that way, doesnt it...? robert fisk ... and yet our new "war president" seems to not be properly embarrassed... In becoming only the third sitting American president to receive the Nobel prize for peace, Mr. Obama presented himself as a wartime leader ... and he even has the gall to promote ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Obama’s widening war"

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 487
  Jennifer Bissell (The Minnesota Daily): Additional troops cannot force a sustainably stable Afghanistan. ---As President Barack Obama orders an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, I am reminded of the words he spoke in October 2007. “I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the ...
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• Poll puts Obama lower than Oslo’s temperature

  
  James McPherson's Media & Politics Blog — Authority: 115
  Though often I wish that CNN would avoid editorializing and the sort of programming that I most disdain about Fox News and MSNBC (the departure of Lou Dobbs was a good step; if Nancy Grace and perhaps Jack Cafferty would follow Dobbs out the door I’d be even happier), I admit that I still appreciated the irony ...
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• December 9, 2009

  
  Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? — Authority: 128
  1.  “Ramping up Afghanistan war to control Caspian oil and gas transport routes The 800-pound gorilla standing in the auditorium at West Point is still waiting for an answer to why Obama made his surge-speech for 30,000 more troops and $30 billion to pay for them. That gorilla wonders “why” Obama pitched so ...
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• The “surge” myth in Iraq and Afghanistan are folly

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 448
  Veteran journalist Patrick Cockburn, a reporter unafraid to challenge accepted wisdom over Western-led wars, dooms Barack Obama’s plans for Afghanistan : American and British exponents of a military escalation or ‘the surge’ in Afghanistan opportunistically expound two wholly contradictory views of Taliban ...
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