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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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• 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

  review the British phased withdrawal plan in Basra, which in reality is the endgame for the U.S.’s most steadfast Coalition partner. Please click here to read more at Kiko’s House.

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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

  the course or immediate withdrawal, Cordesman makes a case for phasing down troop levels starting early next year. His analysis and recommendations will draw fire for being too qualified, too middle-of-the-road and politically unsatisfying. But they have the ring of reality, something so rare in the furor over Iraq that has made Americans

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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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• India Redux?

  Published: August 10, 2007, 11:49 am

  Tags: Iraq, Withdrawal

  Much has been made of some of the parallels between Iraq and Vietnam. But for those advocating rapid withdrawal, perhaps the better parallel to consider would be India, 1947.

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• Back to the Future

  Published: June 30, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: Withdrawal, Iraq Occupation

  Want to know what was on my mind one year ago today?It is time to bring `em home. Time to call it what it is,What it's always beenAnd will remain.It is time to bring `em home.Occasion is now not later.Later's mere deceitWaiting to be slain.It is time to bring `em home.Bomb no more, unlock,Unload their weaponAnd to us return.It is time to bring `em

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• An Assessment Of Iraq

  Published: September 4, 2007, 3:58 pm

  Tags: Blogging, War, Iraq, Surge, Gen Petraeus, Withdrawal, Bush Administration

  Political scientist Dr. Steven Taylor’s great blog Poliblog is in our Right Voices column. TMV has quoted Taylor for years since he is supremely independent in his thoughts and analysis. And on the Iraq war he once again offered readers his own take on events free of “blogspeak.” Now, in light of the upcoming Petraeus report

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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

  set the stage for eventual withdrawal. You are, to use your own disrespectful, tone-deaf word, 'playing' at getting the next Republican nominee to agree to jump into this bottomless pit with you, and take us into it with him, as we stay in Iraq for another year, and another, and another, and anon. Everything you said about Iraq yesterday, and

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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

  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 to

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• Lifting the Curtain on Dave & Ryan's Wondrous Iraq All-Star Minstrel Show

  Published: September 7, 2007, 6:10 am

  Tags: 2008 Elections, Congress, Middle East, Iraq, Sunnis, George W Bush, Shi Ites, Al Qaeda, Sectarian Violence, Surge, Gen Petraeus, Withdrawal, Military Affairs, Bush Administration, Refugees, Nouri Al Maliki

  With General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker set to testify before Congress next week and President Bush planning to deliver his own progress report on the Iraq war, here are five things you should know about these hugely anticipated events: (1.) THE BIG COVER-UP This dog-and-pony show is a cover-up for a White House-manufactured catastrophe of

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• Pillorying Petraeus

  Published: September 10, 2007, 8:29 am

  Tags: History, Politics, Congress, Military, War, Iraq, George W Bush, Democracy, Surge, Gen Petraeus, Withdrawal, Bush Administration, Us Constitution, Foreign Policy, The New York Times

  Now that this President has damaged one American tradition, separation of church and state, he is creating conflict over another that goes back to the days of George Washington, the line between civilian and military in policy decisions. Tomorrow Gen. Petraeus will testify before Congress and be vilified by a full-page ad in the New [...]

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• Waiting For Petraeus: Stepping Back And Looking At Iraq

  Published: September 10, 2007, 3:22 am

  Tags: Iraq, Surge, Withdrawal, Bush Administration, General David Petraeus

  As General David Petraeus gets ready to deliver his report on the “surge” (most likely he will say it is working and will argue for it to continue into the spring, at the very least), there are two MUST READ pieces. First, this Huffington Post piece by former George Bush strategist Matthew Dowd. Here are some [...]

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• General Petraeus Lowers Already Low Expectations in Iraq Even Further

  Published: September 10, 2007, 4:42 pm

  Tags: Iraq, George W Bush, Surge, Withdrawal, Military Affairs, Bush Administration, General David Petraeus

  In an exercise in lowering already low expectations, General David Petraeus told lawmakers today that U.S. troops levels in Iraq may be able to return to their pre-surge strength by next summer without jeopardizing what he characterized as hard-won progress. Then, lowering expectations further still, the top American commander in the bitterly

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• Obama and Iraq

  Published: September 10, 2007, 3:18 pm

  Tags: Barack Obama, Iraq, Iraq War, 2008 Elections, President, Surge, Withdrawal

  From an email press release: “Changing the definition of success to stay the course with the wrong policy is the wrong course for our troops and our national security. The time to end the surge and to start bringing our troops home is now – not six months from now. The Iraqi government is not achieving the political progress that was

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