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• Of Adding Troops, Mapping an Exit Plan, and Writing Headlines.

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 713
  I don’t know anything about the intricacies of publishing a newspaper, or about the relationships or sequence and timing between the on-line and printed versions of a major newspaper such as the New York Times. Although I am not a journalist, I remember from my Journalism 101 class that newspapers pay a lot of ...
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• A Realistic Look At Obama's Afghanistan Strategy

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 420
  At first glance, it seems like nobodys happy with President Obamas new Afghanistan strategy, announced Tuesday night before an audience of West Point cadets. Voices from the left and right (for different reasons, of course) are decrying the presidents decision as not what they wanted to hear. Hard-liners are ...
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• What a fully-employed President Obama told his jobs meeting

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 815
  After months of talking primarily about healthcare and then this week the flaring conflict in Afghanistan , President Obama took to heart today the message from recent polls that Americans are more interested in jobs than the Democratic administration appeared to be. Obama, who neednt worry about unemployment ...
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  The Orstrahyun — Authority: 428
  Abbott Redefines The Lies That Led To The Deaths Of 5000 American Soldiers And 100,000 Iraqis The GodBott on the 2002 lies about Iraq WMDs and the alleged threat to Australia posed by Saddam Hussein, from ABC News : ".....whether something is a lie depends not on what turns out subsequently to be so, but on ...
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• Panel Criticizes Military’s Use of Embedded Anthropologists

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  A two-year-old Pentagon program that assigns social scientists to work with military units in Iraq and Afghanistan has come under sharp criticism.
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• Iraq war plan kept secret - ex-army chief

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • Hoon held up logistic plans to avoid going public • Boyce reveals frustration at dysfunctional US The head of the armed forces at the time of the Iraq invasion said today he had been unable to prepare British troops properly for war because the government did not want the plans to become public knowledge. ...
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• HEADLINES FROM THE WORLD PRESS

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 148
  Each day we offer a sample of headlines that appeared in the world press along with our comments. UK, Guardian: “Chavez Calls For Dieting In Caracas” Perhaps, the dieting can begin by dieting the number of hogwash speeches he delivers. Kenya, Kenya Standard: “Did This Man Lie? He did if his name is ...
  12 hours ago

• Erik Prince and Blackwater

  
  Later On — Authority: 160
  Erik Prince seems to be in trouble . Good.
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• Private war: Mercenaries at work

  
  Nima Maleki: Politics and Critical Thought — Authority: 128
  Guns for hire are increasingly being used in US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, their numbers rising to shocking levels. These mercenaries are mainly paid for by the US, and their numbers often match or exceed those of foreign and local troops. 217,892 private security operate in Afghanistan and Iraq versus 192,000 ...
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• How the US repays its allies

  
  Later On — Authority: 160
  Interesting story by John Cook at Gawker: Firas Al-Qaisi is an Iraqi attorney who risked his life helping the American forces in Baghdad which led to weeks of torture and detention by Shiite militias. Now he’s suing the U.S. for $200 million for trying to murder him. The case of Al-Qaisi v. The American ...
  15 hours ago

• Thanksgiving--168 Hours Later

  
  In Iraq Now (at 56) — Authority: 129
  Last week we ate Thanksgiving dinner which was opulent by any buffet standards and was free--except to tax payers. But even with shrimp cocktail, ham, turkey and every kind of fruit and vegetable you could want, it really wasnt much better than every day fare here. Last night there was a huge line at all four main ...
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• Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders stalls renomination of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 815
  Bernie Sanders has described himself as a democratic socialist. In 18 years in the House, he was the only independent, although he caucused with the Democrats. He opposed resolutions authorizing war in Iraq in 1991 and 2002 and demurred from impeaching George W. Bush  only because he deemed it impractical with ...
  16 hours ago

• Isolationism on the Rise

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 674
  What would anyone expect with the horrid conditions in our own country that needs "nation building"? Via Taegan- Politics Daily reports on a new poll that shows just as President Obama "outlined his broad strategy for Afghanistan and is pushing ahead with other global initiatives, the percentage of Americans ...
  18 hours ago

• War Baton Passed To Obama

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 148
  George Bush can sleep peacefully these days since the wars he began are still going on, but now responsibility of solving them is in another’s hands. Fortunately, for Bush and the Republican party the disastrous wars they began are now the responsibility of Barack Obama. Unfortunately, for the president, there is ...
  18 hours ago

• Ventura On Afghan War: Does Obama “Really Run The Country?”

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 796
  Jesse Ventura ’s promotional blitz for his new truTV show Conspiracy Theory has been a strange but entertaining mix of made-for-soundbite quotes, stabs at his former employers , and earnest political commentary. In his appearance on last night’s Joy Behar Show , he touched a nerve when he bluntly asked if ...
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• US did not believe Britain would refuse to send forces to Iraq

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Former defence chief tells Iraq inquiry that US generals believed Britain would commit troops even if there were no attempts to solve the crisis through the UN The US believed that Britain would take an active part in the Iraq war even if there were no attempts to solve the crisis through the UN, the inquiry into the ...
  20 hours ago

• Spinning out the Iraq inquiry

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Steve Bells If ... Steve Bell
  23 hours ago

• Iraq inquiry – live

  
  Politics: Politics blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 122
  Minute-by-minute coverage as Chilcot hears evidence from Admiral Lord Boyce and Sir Kevin Tebbitt 9.03am: Sir Roderic Lyne starts the questions. He goes back to late 2001. Britain went into Afghanistan. As far as Iraq was concerned, the containment policy was beginning to "creak". In the US people were beginning ...
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• Why they hate us: You can count on it

  
  tabsir.net — Authority: 124
  Why they hate us (II): How many Muslims has the U.S. killed in the past 30 years?(II): How many Muslims has the U.S. killed in the past 30 years? by Stephen M. Walt, The New ForeignPolicy.com , November 30 Tom Friedman had an especially fatuous column in Sunday’s New York Times , which is saying something ...
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• Afghanistan Should Be An Apolitical Issue [OpEd]

  
  Kyle Brady: Blog — Authority: 465
  On Tuesday night, President Obama made a speech that outlined his intentions and commitments regarding the American presence in Afghanistan , and the reactions, which began before the speech was even given, have been rather predictable.  The decision to add 30,000 American troops to the region, with a subsequent ...
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