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• Hostility between British and American military leaders revealed

  
  Don Vandergriff — Authority: 104
  The deep hostility of Britain’s senior military commanders in Iraq towards their American allies has been revealed in classified Government documents leaked to the Daily Telegraph. By Andrew Gilligan Telegraph Published: 10:00PM GMT 22 Nov 2009 ...
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• War inquery

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 154
  Reuters , Keith Weir The United States followed its own military timetable for the 2003 invasion of Iraq rather than allowing diplomacy to run its full course, the former British ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday. Jeremy Greenstock told the Iraq war inquiry he did not think U.N. inspectors had been ...
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• A Day in The Life of The World

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  If you think about what our world was like decades ago and what it’s like right now, you might wonder what happened to societal functions. America had presidents that for the most part knew what this country needed and usually helped fix our problems. The Middle East conflict is getting hotter ever since 1948 when ...
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• Those virtuous Afghanis

  
  Smart Remarks — Authority: 142
  In which the headline says it all: Instead of Fixing the U.S. Economy or Creating Jobs for AMERICANS, Obama Will Spend The Money in Afghanistan and Iraq That would be guest poster George Washington over at Yves Smith’s Naked Capitalism. And it gets at a curious dynamic: With all the yammering about how much ...
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• Analyses: Joe Lieberman said “yes” to Reid’s Saturday night massacre bill, but who was massacred?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  In 2006 when Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman was fighting for his political life in a primary with Ned Lamont, he found himself abandoned by his “friends” in the Democrat Party. Being a former VP candidate meant nothing to those who wanted his head. Ultimately Lieberman was even betrayed by fellow Connecticut ...
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• I Love My People

  
  First Draft — Authority: 616
  U RAH RAH WISCONSIN: According to a military official, detainees at a Wisconsin National Guard camp in Iraq are using Brett Favre as a manner of getting at the guard troops there. "They know Favre by name," said First Lieutenant...
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• What Conservative Purity Looks Like

  
  leftfielder.org — Authority: 118
  The Republican Party is holding their national meeting this winter. This is standard fare for both parties, and these meetings are generally taken up by electing and appointing various people, tweaking the platform in small ways, and generally being an excuse for party leaders to get together and schmooze each other ...
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• Iraq report: Secret papers reveal Blair’s blunders and concealment

  
  War in Context — Authority: 505
  Iraq report: Secret papers reveal Blair’s blunders and concealmentBy Andrew Gilligan, The Sunday Telegraph, November 21, 2009On the eve of the Chilcot inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the 2003 invasion and its aftermath, The Sunday Telegraph has obtained hundreds of pages of secret Government reports on ...
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• Tax Increases Inevitable under Tory or Labour as Deficit Climbs by £3 Billion Per Week

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 608
  Dramatic tax increases are in store for hard-pressed British workers under Tory or Labour regimes as the Government deficit — driven by the wars, immigration, bank bailouts and foreign aid which both parties endorse — continues to balloon by a shocking £3 billion every week. Gordon Brown’s promise to halve the ...
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• British inquiry into Iraq war

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  The man in charge of the official British inquiry examining events surrounding the Iraq war has said his committee will not produce a report that is a “whitewash.” Sir John Chilcot, a retired career civil servant, has promised to produce a “full and insightful” account. Evidence from senior government figures ...
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• East Africans Working for U.S. Security Firms in War Zone

  
  THEBLACKURBANTIMES.COM — Authority: 457
  Thousands of Ugandans and Kenyans are working in Iraq and Afghanistan as contractors for US-based security companies. Although they are paid far higher than if they worked at home, they are still paid far less than Americans and Europeans doing the similar work. Critics believe the use of Africans in the war zone for ...
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• Scotland remembers

  
  BNP Scotland — Authority: 123
  Aberdeen BNP were honoured to have been represented at the Remembrance Sunday Parade at Cowdry Hall. Four members, including the Organiser, attended the ceremony on the 8th of November to lay a wreath in tribute to those who gave their lives in the name of Freedom and Democracy and to those servicemen still at war ...
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• Mister Peabody Visits the Middle East in 1953

  
  Anonymous Arabist ??? ????? — Authority: 124
  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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• A Fitting Welcome

  
  The Opinion Blog — Authority: 138
  Saturday’s second editorial praises the work of a localgroup making sure soldiers returning home know their service is appreciated. Sgt. Woody Walkup was smilingbroadly as he was welcomed home at Myrtle Beach International Airport the other day. The Air Forcesergeant was greeted by a large crowd at the airport who ...
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• Politicians Play on Fear

  
  The Opinion Blog — Authority: 138
  Thursday’s editorial points out leaders of an Illinois town that would gladly take prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, unlike S.C. politicians. A tiny town in Illinois seems to have pulled the rug fromunder some S.C. politicians grandstanding to the point of demagoguing on thepossibility of terrorism suspects being ...
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• Iraq sentences Sunni leader to death

  
  War in Context — Authority: 505
  Iraq sentences Sunni leader to deathBy John Leland, New York Times, November 20, 2009A leader of a Sunni Awakening Council was sentenced to death for kidnapping and murder on Thursday, setting off charges that the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government was trying to weaken the Sunni movement, which is credited with much of ...
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• Fine and inquiry possible for Blackwater successor

  
  War in Context — Authority: 505
  Fine and inquiry possible for Blackwater successorBy Mark Mazzetti and James Risen, New York Times, November 19, 2009The international security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide is facing large government fines for unlicensed arms shipments to Iraq, as a key Congressional committee is asking for a separate ...
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• Iraq vote in doubt

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  One of Iraq’s two vice-presidents has vetoed part of the country’s new election law, putting the parliamentary polls scheduled for January in doubt. Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni Arab, revoked Article 1 of the law and called for the representation in parliament of displaced people to increase to 15%. Most Iraqis who ...
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• Officials: Major Hasan sought ‘war crimes’ prosecution of U.S. soldiers

  
  War in Context — Authority: 505
  Officials: Major Hasan sought ‘war crimes’ prosecution of U.S. soldiersBy Joseph Rhee, Mary-Rose Abraham, Anna Schecter and Brian Ross, ABC News, November 16, 2009Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s military superiors repeatedly ignored or rebuffed his efforts to open criminal prosecutions of soldiers he claimed had ...
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• Was the Iraq war worth it? A divided city tries to answer

  
  War in Context — Authority: 505
  Was the Iraq war worth it? A divided city tries to answerBy Ernesto Londoño, Washington Post, November 15, 2009The Shiite pilgrims arrive in crowded buses and are dropped off just outside the shrine’s gate. They walk down a narrow path patrolled by security guards and lined with tall cement walls to pray at the ...
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