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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

  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 seek out and kill known terrorists. “When I am president, we will wage a war that has to be won,” Obama told an audience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in

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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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• Rep. Ron Paul

  Published: August 17, 2007, 11:28 pm

  Tags: News, Civil Liberties, Empire, Iran, Nukes, Libertarianism, Israel, Russia, Politics, Antiwar Radio, Iraq, Ron Paul, Sudan Darfur, Syria, Troop Support, Draft, Democrats, Republicans

  of war with Iran for our troops in Iraq, our economy, and our liberty, why all the tax money spent militarily “securing” recourses is being wasted due to a mistaken and outdated mercantilist understanding of economics, the failure of the Congressional Democrats to check the war powers of the president, why U.S. intervention on

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• BOTTOMLESS APPETITE

  Published: August 26, 2007, 3:15 pm

  Tags: Bush, Troop Surge, Moyers, Iraq Occupation

  Bill Moyers: Surge in Bushco Propaganda Denies Reality on the GroundThen at last the wolves began to devour one anotherThey ripped into the other's flesh relentlesslyThey said nothing of their brotherhoodNothing of humanityThey said nothingJust engraved flesh to boneAnd to their loved onesIt was told they had become illOr a roadside trap had sunk

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• POROUS

  Published: July 12, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: Troop Surge, Lieberman, Ware

  (SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (D), CONNECTICUT: The war is not lost in Iraq. In fact, now American Iraqi security forces are winning. The enemy is on the run in Iraq. But, here in in Congress, in Washington, we seem to be, or some some members seem to be on the run, chased, I fear, by public opinion polls.)COOPER: Is the enemy on the run in Iraq,

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• Video: Hitchens — Support the war whether it’s going well or not

  Published: September 2, 2007, 1:18 pm

  Tags: Christopher Hitchens, Troop Support, Youtube, Iraq War, Videos

  HITCHENS ON IRAQ Christopher Hitchens is the author of more than ten books, including, most recently, God Is Not Great How Religion Poisons Everything. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has written prolifically for American and English periodicals, including The Nation, The London Review of Books, Granta, Harper’s, The Los

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• Next April or May, Britain could cut their troops from the current 5500 to about 3000

  Published: September 4, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Britain, Iraq, Troop Cuts

  this week of British troops from central Basra to a fortified airport base is likely to be followed next April or May by a cut from the current 5500 troops to about 3000 troops in an "overwatch" role... Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted the withdrawal from central Basra, which left the southern city without foreign forces for the first

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• THE VIRGIN AND THE SEASONED

  Published: September 5, 2007, 1:32 am

  Tags: Olbermann, Petraeus, Troop Surge, Iraq Occupation, George W Bush

  just playing us with 'troop withdrawal'Olbermann: "President Bush told troops in Iraq some of them may be able to come home. To a country dying of thirst, the president seemed to vaguely promise a drink from a full canteen -- a promise predicated on the assumption that he is not lying. Yet you are lying, Mr. Bush. Again. But now, we know

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• MSNBC's Olbermann Over the Edge? He Tags Bush 'Liar,' Calls for Impeachment Again

  Published: September 4, 2007, 11:57 pm

  Tags: Dead Certain, Iraq, Troop Withdrawal, War On Terrorism, George W Bush, Keith Olbermann, Countdown, Msnbc

  of withdrawing some American troops during his speech in Iraq, after the President had also spoken, in Robert Draper's new book, "Dead Certain," of "sustaining a presence" in Iraq. Olbermann assumed Bush's two statements -- about withdrawing some troops and "sustaining a presence" -- could not be consistent, thus

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• Democrats are in Attack Mode

  Published: September 6, 2007, 3:05 pm

  Tags: Political Opinion, Link Fest, Surge, Lessen, Spreading, Stake, Paint, Troop, Moment, Energy

  started spreading that the troop surge was working that Democrats needed a way to defeat and lessen any good news that might come from Iraq. They have spent a lot of energy in helping the enemy and in trying to paint all things Iraq as bad. They put a lot... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the story...

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• Everything old is new again

  Published: September 6, 2007, 4:40 pm

  Tags: George W Bush, Iraq, Americans Against Escalation In Iraq, Troop Withdrawal

  the prospect of meaningful troop withdrawals. And you know what? I've yet to see the traditional media's Conventional Wisdom on this stuff become what, by all rights, it should be: that the Bush "administration" is recycling the same nonsense over and over. Instead, they seem endlessly and uselessly trapped in the "they said it, so we have

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• Republicans: Don't listen to Gen. Petraeus!

  Published: September 7, 2007, 12:57 pm

  Tags: Troop, Iraq, Boehner, Military, Surge, Levels, Petraeus

  wants to maintain heightened troop levels in Iraq well into next year to reduce the risk of military setbacks, but could accept the pullback of roughly 4,000 troops beginning in January, in part to assuage critics in Congress, according to senior administration and military officials.The response of the Republican leadership in Congress to the

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• Redefining Goals in Iraq (from The New York Times)

  Published: September 10, 2007, 4:14 am

  Tags: Troop Withdrawel

  ...no one will be talking about achieving victory, just stability...from reporter David Sanger's analysis report in the September 10 edition of The New York Times. (STORY LINK)CODYLYONBLOGOLATER

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• Bush issues proxy veto threat against Webb amendment

  Published: September 16, 2007, 3:02 pm

  Tags: George W Bush, Robert Gates, Jim Webb, Troop Readiness, Webb Amendment

  proposal that would give troops more rest between deployments in Iraq, branding it a dangerous "backdoor way" to draw down forces. Democrats pledged to push ahead with the plan by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., and expressed confidence they could round up the votes to pass it, although perhaps not by the margin to override a veto. Gates was asked

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• GOOD SOLDIER

  Published: September 16, 2007, 2:52 pm

  Tags: Bush, Petraeus, Troop Surge, Truth, Deceit, Presidential Candidate

  (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)The Ambitious Delusions of George Bush and David PetraeusWe now learn that General David Petraeus fancies himself a Dwight Eisenhower for the 21st century.According to a report in London's Independent newspaper by the reliable Middle East observer Patrick Cockburn, the U.S. military viceroy in Iraq would like very

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