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• Obama’s war plans

  Published: August 1, 2007, 6:05 pm

  Tags: Power Games, Safe Negro Report, Troop Surge Plan, Troop Withdrawal, Political Expediency, Obama For President, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, George W Bush, 2008, Politics

  photo by radiospike Hat Tip: Dan Balz, Washington Post Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama today pledged an aggressive war against Islamic extremists, calling for the deployment of at least 7,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to combat the growing Taliban influence and promising to order U.S. forces into Pakistan if necessary to

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• Cindy Sheehan arrested in capitol protest

  Published: July 23, 2007, 10:17 pm

  Tags: Power Games, Troop Surge Plan, Troop Withdrawal, Political Expediency, Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers, Iraq, Cindy Sheehan, Impeachment, Politics

  Hat tip: WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday at the Capitol for disorderly conduct, shortly after saying she would run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the California Democrat’s refusal to try to impeach President Bush. Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan says “Impeachment is not a fringe

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• Was Soldier A-Kos-ted?

  Published: August 6, 2007, 10:42 pm

  Tags: Featured, Dressed, Soldier, Surge, Asked, Conference, Officer, Appears, Army

  a soldier who discussed the surge but I do not know all that was asked or said by the soldier because I could not hear... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the story...

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• Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. Predicts Surge in Alt A Mortgage Market Defaults

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:20 pm

  Tags: Subprime Mortgage, Mortgage Bubble, Subprime Implosion, Subprime Mortgage Industry, Alt Mortgage Market, Prime Mortgage Market, Mortgage Bubble, Friedman, Ramsey, Billings, Default, Predicts, Surge, 2008, Group

  Ramsey Group, Inc. Predicts Surge in Alt-A Defaults The credit performance of alternative-A loans is expected to tumble over the winter, with the default rate hitting 4% by the end of next May, up 45% from the current default rate, according to a Friedman Billings Ramsey report. The default rate on Alt A Mortgage Market stood at 2.69% this past

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• As Basra Goes So Goes Iraq

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:41 am

  Tags: Iraq, George W Bush, United Kingdom, Tony Blair, Tories, Sectarian Violence, Surge, Withdrawal, Military Affairs, Bush Administration

  out the message that the surge also will be a success. But the pattern emerging in Basra may well be the same nationally if elements of the Shiite-dominated national government (which has no Sunni ministers at the moment, as well as a Parliament away at summer camp) turn on one another when U.S. troops begin withdrawing. This is because, for

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• A Sane Re-Start for the Iraq Debate

  Published: August 8, 2007, 10:41 pm

  Tags: Foreign Affairs, War, Iraq, Sunnis, Muslims, Henry Kissinger, Al Qaeda, Sectarian Violence, Surge, Radical Islam, Withdrawal, Bush Administration, Mideast

  turning against Al Qaeda insurgents. He quotes an unnamed U.S. official as describing our situation as “three dimensional chess in the dark while someone is shooting at you.” Rejecting the extremes of staying the course or immediate withdrawal, Cordesman makes a case for phasing down troop levels starting early next year. His

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• Old Man & The War: The Lost Years

  Published: August 9, 2007, 3:46 pm

  Tags: Foreign Affairs, Iraq, George W Bush, Sectarian Violence, Surge, Withdrawal, Moktada Al Sadr, Military Affairs

  Think of the Iraq war as an old man. This old man would like nothing more than to go out in a blaze of glory. But his life is dominated by fights with a sister in law, and as he shuffles around his thoughts frequently turn melancholy as he thinks back to when he was young, full of piss and vinegar and the world was his red, white and blue oyster.

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• Is the military track working against the political track in Iraq?

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:26 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Surge

  decisive component of the "surge" and a necessity to stabilizing the situation in Iraq. Here's what Lynch has stumbled upon in short form (but read the whole post here).Basically, Ambassador Ryan Crocker is working from the top down on a national Iraqi government. This is the goal in Iraq; a strong, friendly (or at least neutral) central

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• The Surge of Optimism

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:07 am

  Tags: Iraq, Surge, Foreign Policy

  of the side effects of the surge--and future surges--are more US service members dying. No one wants that. If we sustain the surge (as is) we have till mid-2008 until the military passes a foreseen breaking point. Therefore a reduction is forced at this point assuming drastic measures aren't invoked to sustain the surge. This--like this

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• Surge Derangement Syndrome Grips MSM and Liberals

  Published: August 10, 2007, 9:04 am

  Tags: Iraq, David Petraeus, Surge, Journalistic Issues

  that the "so-called surge" is working: REID: No, I don't believe him, because it's not happening. All you have to do is look at the facts. Well, as we do look at the facts that the surge is working, the MSM and the liberals are showing more signs of severe SDS. Some of these SDS signs have been noted in the August 9 edition of

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• Is the military track working against the political track in Iraq?

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:26 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Surge

  decisive component of the "surge" and a necessity to stabilizing the situation in Iraq. Here's what Lynch has stumbled upon in short form (but read the whole post here).Basically, Ambassador Ryan Crocker is working from the top down on a national Iraqi government. This is the goal in Iraq; a strong, friendly (or at least neutral) central

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• The Surge of Optimism

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:07 am

  Tags: Iraq, Surge, Foreign Policy

  of the side effects of the surge--and future surges--are more US service members dying. No one wants that. If we sustain the surge (as is) we have till mid-2008 until the military passes a foreseen breaking point. Therefore a reduction is forced at this point assuming drastic measures aren't invoked to sustain the surge. This--like this

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• Forget Bush's mid-September Report, Look for the GAO's

  Published: August 15, 2007, 11:06 pm

  Tags: Wot, Iraq, Surge, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs

  report on the presidents "surge" in Iraq. It also reminded anyone remotely paying attention that the mid-September report--misleadingly referred to as the Petraeus-Crocker report--will be a political document written for, and only for, misleading the US audience into a continuation of failed policy. Despite Bush's repeated statements that the

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• The Debate is Over Regarding the Surge

  Published: August 16, 2007, 11:26 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Surge, Foreign Policy

  The debate is over, the surge cannot be maintained with time or troop levels sufficient "to break the back of the insurgency." It's high time to reassess the mission and put our troops efforts towards a more realistic end.Posted by Geoff

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• America: We like you Petraeus, but we aren't going to buy it

  Published: August 16, 2007, 10:39 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Surge, Foreign Policy, Politics, Petraeus

  the successes of the "surge" and equate anyone analyzing the lack of progress in Iraq as anti-American terrorist supporters. The E & P story that brought this on says:The [Gallop] poll of 1,012 adults, taken earlier this month, found that 47% give [Petraeus] a favorable rating, and only 21% unfavorable. The rest had not heard of him or

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