[LewRockwell.com] The Wolf You Feed by Karen Kwiatkowski: Mullen is worried about includes all the junk in our collective military trunk, all the people currently in uniform, in civil service and contractor suits and khakis, and the millions of retirees (of which I am one), all of the facilities in 177 countries around the world, the spy/eavesdropping/technical surveillance infrastructure and people, and the costs of war/occupation/endless training and puppet–prop-uppery in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Yemen, Pakistan, Colombia, South Korea, etc. All of this equals, to Mullen, "national security."

[Libertarian Republican] Libertarian Republican: Lew Rockwell completely loses it.. Calls ...: Yet those new supporters, many of whom are first encountering libertarian ideas through the Ron Paul Revolution, deserve a far more frank explanation than the campaign has as yet provided of how their candidate's name ended up atop so many ugly words. Ron Paul may not be a racist, but he became complicit in a strategy of pandering to racists—and taking "moral responsibility" for that now means more than just uttering the phrase.

[LewRockwell.com Blog] Glenn Beck Is a Statist, Not a Libertarian « LewRockwell.com Blog: Beck went on to defend the U.S. embargo against Iraq that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people during the 1990s, argued that we should have fought the Iraq war “full on” from the beginning (meaning we shouldn’t have been so squeamish ”” as if “we”

[VDARE.com - Latest Articles] VDARE.com: 05/14/08 - Lew Rockwell And The Strange Death (Or At ...: The Mises Institute website has every single article that appeared in the Journal of Libertarian Studies—except for Mike Levin’s preview of his wonderful book Why Race Matters, which appeared in the Fall 1997 issue.

[LewRockwell.com] 'Ron Paul Is a Big Problem' by Burt Blumert: In the past few months, too many articles and blogs at LRC have cast a positive light on Ron Paul, and therefore on his presidential candidacy. LRC, and its parent, the Center for Libertarian Studies, are non-profit entities, and you guys cannot be involved with political campaigns in any way, shape, or form.

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[GlobalPost] Iraq War | Government | Politics: President Obama’s hasty efforts to place the responsibility for Iraq’s future in the hands of Iraqi officials and citizens alike reveal the glaring lack of political progress there. Five months after the country’s parliamentary elections, Iraq has yet to build a functioning government, despite months of heated debate and political posturing.

[The Cable] Excerpts from tonight's Presidential address on Iraq | The Cable: Biden met Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Ayad Allawi, the leader of the Iraqiya coalition, President Jalal Talabani, Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, Vice President Adil abd al-Mahdi and Ammar al-Hakim, Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council.

[RealClearPolitics - Articles] RealClearPolitics - Obama's Iraq Speech To Focus On Path Ahead: While Iraq has faded into the background of the national discourse amid a still struggling economy and setbacks in Afghanistan, the second Oval Office address of Obama's presidency will serve as a reminder of the continued salience of an issue that once bitterly divided this nation, cost the lives of over 4,400 U.S. troops, and dominated the latter half of the Bush presidency, helping to propel Obama to the Democratic nomination in 2008.

[Untitled] Iraq Says Its Independent As US Ends Combat - New Orleans News ...: Al-Maliki's mostly Shiite political coalition was narrowly bested in the March 7 parliamentary vote to a secular alliance backed mostly by Sunnis and led by former Shiite premier Ayad Allawi. Both al-Maliki and Allawi want to be prime minister and have spent the last six months trying to recruit allies and block the other from succeeding.

[NewsDaily: Top Headlines] NewsDaily: Iraq hails sovereignty as U.S. ends combat mission: "It is not our place to tell Iraqis who should lead but I strongly urge them to match the courage their citizens have shown by bringing this process to a close and forming a government," Biden said at the change of command ceremony, held in one of Saddam's former palaces near Baghdad airport.

[Dinar Daddy's Tidbits] * Islamic Supreme Council: Alliance blocs will to accept Maliki's ...: And notes by observers that the National Coalition (70 seats) and although he objected to the nomination of the leader of a coalition of law (89 seats), Nuri al-Maliki did not ask a candidate, while preferred by some components of the coalition and demanded an inventory position components of the alliance, which offers a home and a coalition of state law, meaning that refused to take leader of the Iraqi List (91 seats), Iyad Allawi as prime minister, with conflicting positions of components of the National Coalition itself about Maliki’s nomination between the acceptance of candidates on candidates or non-acceptance at all and demand an alternative for a coalition of state law, at the time of the latter insists on his nomination and waving at times to offer an alternative , but it also fails in his choice or named, has recorded a paradox in the Iraqi political arena Candidates Advertisers worthless (Maliki, Allawi) and the bench in short and non-advertisers so far.

[Calgary Herald - News] 7 years after 'mission accomplished,' U.S. pulls troops from Iraq: "I want to thank President Obama for setting aside his past political rhetoric and recognizing the importance of the surge," John Boehner, the Republican minority leader in the House of Representatives, said at a speech to the American Legion in Milwaukee.

[Mideast Youth] Mideast Youth » Blog Archive » the mission is over - Thinking Ahead: Iraq since the beginning of 2010 and especially after march elections showed deep influence of Iran in Iraq fate and future ,Iraqi leaders fear Iran more than they listen to American ,soon Iran will dig deeper in Iraqi politics and economy ,making Iraq move faster into Iran power than democratic free west allied the war seek to produce ,whatever will happen in Iraq in near future will show its first signs in the government formation and security control ,and for many loyal Iraqi people who wanted to protect democracy and change Iraqi to became a human rights and civilized modern country ,they worry about the future , cause it is not looking optimistic

[Iraq and Gulf Analysis] Operation Iraqi Partition « Iraq and Gulf Analysis: There has been much talk about conspiracies by hostile powers to divide Iraq into separate statelets, and most of it is probably unfounded. This partition conspiracy, however, is real and since it mostly goes undiagnosed it represents arguably far most dangerous aspect of the Iraq War: Brilliant Western academics who may have the best possible intentions towards Iraq and its people but who in an attempt at sounding sophisticated perpetuate the toxic paradigm of a tripartite Iraq - be it territorially or sociologically - simply because they have failed to study the country’s history properly through primary sources.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » No “Mission accomplished” tonight, but claims of a ...: “Me, Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, I, Me, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, I, Me, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, I, Me, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, I, Me, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, I, Me, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, I, Me, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, I, Me, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, I, Me, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, I, Me, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, I, Me, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, I, Me, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, I, Me, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, I, Me, I, I, Me, Me, Me, Me, I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, I, Me, I, I, It’s Bush’s fault and I fixed it”, said Obama.

[Political Punch] Vice President Biden Lands in Baghdad To Attend Change of Mission ...: Biden is anticipated to meet with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, leader of the Iraqiyya coalition Ayad Allawi, chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council Ammar al-Hakim and other political leaders.  

[Iraq Dinar Speculation] Iraqi Government to be formed”¦ soon? | Iraq Dinar Speculation: The same went for the country’s ethnic and sectarian divisions, he said: “We just didn’t understand it.” To advocates of the counterinsurgency strategy that General Odierno has, in part, come to symbolize, the learning curve might highlight the military’s adaptiveness. Critics of a conflict that killed an estimated 100,000 Iraqis, perhaps far more, and more than 4,400 American soldiers might see the acknowledgment as evidence of the war’s folly.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » The President Should Declare Victory in Iraq: Wouldn’t it be nice to see Obama go to Baghdad, stand with Iraq’s motley crew of political leaders (Allawi, Maliki, etc.), along with Secretary Clinton and Generals Odierno and Mattis, and state in front of an audience of rowdy U.S. and Iraqi soldiers the triumph over Saddamist cultism, dictatorship, insurgency, and jihadist terrorism?

[mcclatchydc.com: Latest headlines] Biden, in Baghdad, urges Iraqis to form a government now | McClatchy: to be formed and has been trying to find a way to bring in both Maliki and his major challenger Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite who heads a political bloc with wide Sunni Arab participation. The U.S. has backed creating a new security council which would be led by Allawi - a body not provided for in the Iraqi Constitution - leaving Maliki to potentially remain as prime minister.

[Iraq and Gulf Analysis] Armistice and Governance in the Iraqi Government-Formation Process ...: In February, in Washington, Chris Hill said that Chalabi was an Iranian stooge but he also cited Chalabi’s jurisprudence when he alleged that there was a justified relationship between article 7 of the Iraqi constitution and the de-Baathification campaign (in fact there isn’t because the relevant law pursuant to article 7 has yet to be adopted by the Iraqi parliament). Similarly, at USIP a week ago or so, he was asked a brief question about the Kurds and then raved on for five full minutes about the virtues of the KRG and how well-liked Barzani was among all Iraqi politicians - the decisive proof of which appeared to be the habit of Ammar al-Hakim to visit Arbil frequently!

[Global News Blog Headlines] Iraq - Iraq: Facts and figures : Global News Blog Headlines: Suicide bombers killed more than 50 people in apparently coordinated attacks on Iraqi security forces in Baghdad and elsewhere on today, less than a week before U.S. troops formally end combat operations. The bombings also wounded more than 200 people, underscoring how fragile Iraq’s security is, and how…

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[The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely] The Revolution in Military Affairs and the New American Way of War ...: One of Shimko’s many interesting observations is that exuberance after the first Iraq War led to an overconfidence, among civilian and military leadership alike, that wars would be short and easy, as would postwar occupations - the sort of hubris that constitutes part of what Andrew Bacevich calls “the new American militarism.” That exuberance likely played an important role in the costly delays in adopting counterinsurgency programs in Afghanistan and Iraq.

[Raw Story] Last US combat brigade pulls out of Iraq | Raw Story: This wasn't the case with Vietnam which America left in such a hurry that American's Vietnamese allies were literally deserted, left to be murdered. Vietnam was one war that the US actually lost.

[The Moral Liberal] Muslim Soldier Refuses Deployment: Won't be Part of Any War “U.S. ...: As for the unstated “American values” he mentioned, I hope we resurrect the almost lost American value of accountability in his case. This would mean forcing him to repay the Army its investment in him and giving him a nice long stretch in a very American prison.

[Eurasia Review - Facebook Feed] Muslim Soldier Refuses Deployment: Common sense dictates that Abdo should not be deployed to a war zone, as someone harboring his beliefs would be a danger to fellow soldiers, if only because he cannot be relied upon to execute his duties.  But he doesn’t qualify for conscientious-objector status, either.  Note that the Department of Defense (DOD) instruction on conscientious objection states that to qualify for the status an individual must sincerely object “to participation as a combatant in war in any form.”  The DOD then elaborates:

[American Renaissance News] American Renaissance News: Muslim Soldier Refuses Deployment: The Army is about to court-martial a lieutenant colonel (doctor) for refusing orders to go to the middle east because he wants proof that Obama was born in th U.S. Let us see how this loser Abdo is treated. My guess: he will get a general discharge and may be eligible for some VA benefits.

[The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide] The War in Iraq Is "Over" | The Measure | The L Magazine - New ...: The last American combat brigade has withdrawn from Iraq and about a fortnight ahead of the official August 31 changeover from "Operation Iraqi Freedom" to "Operation New Dawn". 50000 American troops remain in Iraq, of course, .

[Patrick J. Buchanan] A Neocon Preps US for War with Iran « Patrick J. Buchanan: However, Goldberg’s obsession with “aflatoxin” didn’t stand up too well after the U.S.-led invasion found no evidence that Iraq still had bio-weapons stockpiles. Regarding aflatoxin, Charles Duelfer, the Bush administration’s chief weapons inspector in Iraq, concluded that there was “no evidence to link those tests [of aflatoxin] with the development of biological weapons agents for military use.”

[Enduring America] UPDATED Afghanistan/Iraq/Iran Video and Transcript: Petraeus ...: GREGORY: But you, even””I mean there’s a lot of things that have to be done, and you talk about getting the big ideas right. And yet, it seems like one of the biggest ideas that you have yet to surmount is the fact that there are Afghans sitting on the fence because they don’t trust the government, they””there’s no love lost for the Taliban, but at least perhaps they can turn to them, or they fear retribution, and everybody in the region is now aware that the days of U.S. troops being here actively securing the country are numbered.

[Wednesday-Night] Wednesday-Night - » Iraq: Over the years that followed, he worked as a contract-based adviser to leaders in Iraq’s Kurdish community, while also arguing passionately in public media that Iraq’s Kurds should be given maximum independence from Baghdad - including full control over any new sources of oil. But in June 2004, more quietly, Galbraith also established a small, U.S.-registered company, Porcupine, that held a five percent stake in a newly exploited oilfield in Iraqi Kurdistan, a Norwegian daily revealed last Saturday.

[Jeep Wrangler] Jeep Wrangler » Blog Archive » Land Rover Defender - Sheet Metal ...: The bulk of the division’s work was the construction of stretched-wheelbase mobile workshops and crew carriers for British and European utility companies, often including 6-wheel-drive conversions, but more unusual projects were undertaken, such as the construction of an amphibious Land Rover Ninety used by the company as part of its sponsorship of Cowes Week from 1987-90. The Special Projects division also handled specialised military contracts, such as the building of a fleet of 127-inch (3,226 mm) V8-powered Rapier missile launchers for the British Army.

[Sephari - Israel] Knowing our Own Limitations « Sephari - Israel: >Resolve the Israeli- Palestinian .>Candidates should never change a previously held position: Peopleâ€â™s ideas, beliefs and values often change over time, so why shouldnâ€â™t they be expected to modify certain positions based on experience and new information ?

[Commentary] Commentary » Blog Archive » Petraeus on Afghanistan: Well, the outcome in Iraq is still to be written, but if you could reduce the level of violence by some 90 to 95 percent, as was the case in Iraq, to below a threshold which allows commerce and business and outside investment to take place, where there is an election that’s certainly at least elected representatives, and now you have to see if they can come together and form a government that is still representative of and responsive to the people, as was the previous one. If that can all be achieved there, that would be a reasonable solution here as well.

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[WE Blog] GOP revives culture wars at its peril | WE Blog | Wichita Eagle Blogs: “So why are conservatives riled up about illegal immigration, same-sex marriage and mosque building? “The merits of the issues aside, if Republicans believe that the key to victory this year is to refight the culture wars, they are mistaken”

[SWJ Blog] The Cognitive Dissonance of COIN (SWJ Blog): In Afghanistan, the border is too long to be closed by the forces that the United States has been willing and able to commit, and these forces are also prohibited from occupying territory in Pakistan. Consequently, the Taliban have been able to maintain a hit-and-run campaign from sanctuaries, at a level low enough to permit the Taliban to replace their losses indefinitely.

[Politico Live's Blog] Petraeus downplays July 2011 timeline - POLITICO Live - POLITICO.com: Reilly, and Josh Kraushaar. Complete coverage of Iraq, Immigration, House and Senate Races in 2008, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and more.

[Combined Arms Center Blog] Doubts about U.S. tactics shadow war in Afghanistan By William M ...: In closing, there are a ton of great methods, tools, and techniques that led to the success of the Iraq war however we need to be cautious in trying to implement lessons learned from Iraq and use them to accomplish strategic, operational, and tactical tasks in Afghanistan.  In order for success in Afghanistan we as commanders need to put Iraq solutions to the side for now and conduct proper mission analysis of the current threat and dynamics around both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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[Stephen M. Walt] What to Read About the "Direct Talks" (and why you should still be ...: The alternative is for the United States to play the role of conductor, coordinating the efforts of different nations even as it preserves its privileged ties to Israel and others. For example, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, together with Qatar and Turkey, could spearhead efforts to bring about Palestinian national reconciliation consistent with a continued U.S.-led peace process. Turkey, assuming that it mends its ties with Israel and maintains its newfound credibility in Arab countries, could serve as a channel to Hamas and Syria on peace talks or to Iran on the nuclear issue. Under the auspices of the United States, Iraq's Arab neighbors and Iran could reach a minimal consensus on Iraq's future aimed at maintaining Iraq's territorial unity, preserving its Arab identity, protecting Kurdish rights, and ensuring healthy, balanced relations between Baghdad and Tehran. Washington should intensify its efforts to resume and conclude peace negotiations between Israel and Syria, which would do far more to affect Tehran's calculations than several more rounds of UN sanctions. Syria also could be useful in reaching out to residual pockets of Sunni militants in Iraq."

[Islam Times - Last topics] Islam Times - The Al-Saud Family in the scope of the West: Moreover, the Muftis of the Al-Saud family issued Fatwas prohibiting praying for Hezbollah's victory in Lebanon! The Gaza War Contrary to the expectations and wishes of Saudi Arabia and its Western allies, the July war on Lebanon ended up .

[FPIF Regions: Middle East & North Africa] Foreign Policy In Focus | Iran-Saudi Relations: Rising Tensions ...: Not foregoing memories of Saudi support for Iraq during the latter’s invasion of Iran, Tehran’s main annoyance stems from the belief that Saudi Arabia is covertly cooperating with its enemies on three fronts: cooperation with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on the abduction of an Iranian nuclear scientist, coordination with Israel on a potential “surgical strike” against Iran’s nuclear facility, and ideological-material support for Iran’s main domestic terrorist group, the Jundullah.

[Jihad Watch] Al-Qaeda preaches overthrow of House of Saud, warfare against Jews ...: Al-Qaeda ordered supporters in the Saudi army to "collect information on everything related to the Saudi royal family" in an effort to dethrone them, a speaker identified as Saeed al- Shihri said in an Arabic-language recording posted today on a website that often carries al-Qaeda statements. The identity of the speaker could not immediately be verified.

[Planet-Iran.com] Al Qaeda Plans for War with Israel | Planet-Iran.com: Any sympathizer who has access to Arab leaders like the princes of the House of Saud, for example, should look for a chance to kill one in an act of terror reminiscent of the assassination of the “tyrant Anwar Sadat” in 1981. Iran will attack American installations in the Gulf, encourage its proxies in Iraq and Afghanistan to attack Americans, and engage in a global terror campaign.

[Mideast Youth] Mideast Youth » Blog Archive » Saudi Arabia & Israel vs. Iran ...: form an alliance with the West against Iran given war erupts, the possibility of Sunnis and Shiites getting along are quite slim, and this diminishes the possibility of the Gulf states, particularly Saudi Arabia, ruled by the Sunni Al-Saud family and governed by Islamic Shari’ah Law to have a strong alliance with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which adopts the Shiite sect and enforces a theocratic rule upon the state. And with Saudi Arabia’s past history of giving corridor to U.S. troops to pass through to Iraq during the Persian Gulf War in 1990 [Operation Desert Storm], this entire situation is just starting to look like Iraq 2.0 to me.

[Untitled] The Enduring Middle East Strategic Framework Begins to Emerge as ...: At the time, Iran exploited the widespread trauma as a result of the US undermining and shaming of both (Iraq’s) nationalist Sunni Islam and (Saudi Arabia’s) traditional-conservative Sunni Islam in the 1990-1 Gulf War in order to push its own Shi’ite-based doctrine of revolutionary-militant Islam. By 1992, Sudan’s Hassan al-Turabi adapted the Iranian jihadist tenets and adopted them into the Sunni neo-salafite doctrine, thus setting the grounds for the ascent of the jihadist trend now popularly associated with Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and their supporters.

[RealClearWorld] RealClearWorld - America's Proxy War in the Middle East: For decades, the Persian Gulf region - subsumed under a latent Sunni-Shi'ite divide - was animated by a drama of Iraq-Iran rivalry; each power balanced the other.

[Revolutionizing Awareness] So, Who Won the War in Iraq? Iran. « Revolutionizing Awareness: For example, Saudi Arabia’s ruling Al-Saud dynasty views itself as the rightful leader of the Muslim world, but Iran is challenging that leadership right now. Although Saudi Arabia has a Sunni majority, its rulers fear Iran’s potential influence over a sizable and sometimes-restive Shiite population concentrated in the kingdom’s oil-rich Eastern Province.

[cypee.com] cypee.com: Even Israelis didnâ€â™t mind this time when we sold F ...: After losing Iran, President Jimmy Carter had initiated the Rapid Deployment Force (CentCom's precursor), showing that even then Washington understood that U.S. troops would have to protect Saudi oilfields from real predators, as they did when Saddam Hussein marched through Kuwait. Reagan presumably saw this as well, for while the arms sold to Saudi Arabia were ostensibly intended to help protect the Saudis against the Soviet Union as well as the revolutionary energies that turned their Shia neighbor in Tehran openly hostile, the deal was largely an expression of U.S. support for a vital ally.

[Hit & Run] The Tantalizing, Sober, Respectable Joys Of Nuking Iran - Hit ...: A "sector" of the U.S. wanted out of Vietnam because we had nobusiness there. Jesus f%#$ing Kee-ryste, he's still playing Vietnamin his basement with his die-cast armies, and I'm sure he's got avictory all worked out, and he'd have won, too, if it weren't forus meddling kids.

[Blogs For Victory] Bolton: Israel Has 8 Days to Hit Iran Nukes » Blogs For Victory: Al Qaeda’s franchise in Yemen, the self styled Al Qaeda in the Arabian Pennisula (AQAP), issued a audio message earlier this month with a lecture by its second in command Saeed al Shehri in which he tells jihadists in the Middle East that “what is expected is for the war to begin by the Jews against Iran.” Israel will stage air strikes on Iran’s nuclear installations to start. Shehri expects the Iranian Shia regime to try to take advantage of an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities to seize the holy cites of Mecca and Medina by blaming Saudi Arabia for helping Israel attack.

[Marginal Revolution] Marginal Revolution: View of Jimmy Carter and his Presidency: Osama bin Laden got involved in Afghanistan around 1980 when he was personally sent by the head of Saudi intel, Prince Turki bin Faisal bin Abdullah bin Abdul-Rahman al Sa'ud to help the anti-Soviet mujaheddin build tunnels and caves. It was vets of this group that would form the core of al Qaeda later, with Osama making excellent use of his intimate knowledge of those tunnels, him being selected as a son of the man who had done a great deal of reconstruction work on the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » I [Heart] Ankh-Morpork New Yorkers: The Saudis hate Hamas, a Sunni offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood just like CAIR is and al-Rauf's camel's-nose-under-the-tent Cordoba terrorist theme Park51 project. And the Saudis despise the Shi'ite Hezbollah, who are an Iranian .

[IsraelSeen.com] Arabs vs. the Abdullah Plan Comprehensive Analysis | IsraelSeen.com: after its chief author, then-Saudi crown prince Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz, constitutes the most significant and explicit collective Arab declaration in favor of a peaceful, mutually agreed-on resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict ever made. By adopting the plan at the March 2002 League of Arab States’s Beirut summit and reaffirming it in Riyadh in 2007, the collective Arab position towards the conflict has been modified in the direction of a more explicit recognition of Israel.

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[Business Insider] John Boehner's Genius Move: Demanding That Every Obama Economic ...: I was writing my Congresspeople, including a senior Senator on the Financial Committee, begging him not to approve Geithner's nomination to Treasury due to his apparent lack of ethics as well as demonstrated incometetence while at the NY Fed. He was, after all, the point person for regulating the major Wall Street firms in the years running up to the 2007-2008 crisis.

[Freakonomics] The Costs of War - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com: Globally, the war in iraq will likely be a net economic benefit, though the US may not recover the value of the lives and resources lost. And, most of the spending is spending that is done in the US.

[POLITICO Top Stories] Sunday talk show tip sheet - Dianna Heitz - POLITICO.com: In The 9/11 Commission Report,(page 147), it is stated that this is why Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, (KSM), mastermind of 9/11, hates us: "By his own account, KSM's animus toward the United States stemmed not from his experiences there as a student, but rather from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel.”all

[The Hollywood Republican] THR Twitter Weekly Digest for 08-02-2010 | The Hollywood Republican: Rangel explores possible deal in ethics case - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A second House Democrat called on Re”¦ http://ht.ly/18jRuw #; THR: House Passes War Funding Bill, Troop Surge in Afghanistan and Iraq http://ht.ly/18jNDW #; THR: Kerry ...

[DoD Buzz] DoD Buzz | Gates Cuts Leading to 'Strategic Drawdown:' Wynne: Can you envision China’s retaking Taiwan triggering the North Koreans invading South Korea or vice versa ( anyone thinking that a Trillion dollar investment or the loss of the WallMart contract will inhibit the PRC doesn’t understand the mindset of a five thousand year old society or the PLA). And certainly the dynamics of a Pakistan/India/China conflict could come about in a heartbeat as we have seen recently.

[Firedoglake] The Upcoming Iraq Supplemental: Putting The Squeeze On ...: The next Dem president is going to need some leeway until he/she can change course without being hung up on asking for continuing funding until the drawdown occurs”¦.unless McBush were to win that is. The bigger problem is that there is no accountability for the money they’ve already received since the invasion/occupation began, so who really knows what this would be for in reality.

[The Confluence] Private Party « The Confluence: -McCain takes advantage of some timing issues in Florida and Michigan to make sure that none of the votes count during election night.  BUT, knowing how bad that PR will be in the final analysis, works with the federal election authorities to make sure those votes count during the electoral college proceedings so that the voters in those states don’t cause a fuss and discredit the election results.

[Political Punch] $72408 Per Stimulus Job? White House Says No - Political Punch: Each time an American is killed because of something called Jihad, we'll have a trial. Hope and Change.

[Re/Creating Tampa] Happy Wedding Day Lisa Simpson « Re/Creating Tampa: By Steve Bousquet, Times Tallahassee Bureau Chief Friday, August 27, 2010 If you're looking for a statewide race with substantive differences between the two candidates, your search is over.In the race for attorney general, Pam Bondi and Dan Gelber provide plenty of contrasts.They disagree on Obamacare, education, guns and vouchers, and they seem to dif […] Times Staff

[The Center of the Universe] The Center of the Universe » Blog Archive » courant coverage: Mertes wants to cut the 800 bases, well I like being a citizen in a superpower with bases all over the world so when I travel I got a little piece of home near me and think our military is what keeps our oil prices cheaper than most places so I don’t like his message. Simmons lost every old person when he started talking about SS cuts :( So round 2 I give points to schiff, simmons and mertes no points, I give you a point for round 2 as well Warren, but I think most j6p’s wouldn’t.

[The Literateur Magazine] The Literateur Magazine » Blog Archive » Open to the World: Stefan Zweig, and Michael Hoffman’s unfavourable review of his republished memoir The World of Yesterday in a recent LRB, lurks behind the conversation, referenced obliquely at the end as ”˜an article on a certain writer.’ If Hoffman’s assault on Zweig can be more generally applied, as the panel suggests, to a need to ”˜clear away dead wood’ from the large body of ex-empire, German-language writing available to an Anglophone readership, then the literatures of Soviet Europe are not, as Szirtes says of Hungary’s slim translated canon, ”˜ in the luxurious position to be pruned.’

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[Lifepath Unlimited The Blog] Obama says Iraq war is ending, his promise is kept: President Barack Obama said on Saturday Iraq could “chart its own course” and told Americans the drawdown of U.S. troops helped fulfill a promise he made during the 2008 presidential campaign.

[Nation] Obama: Iraq war is ending, Baghdad `free to chart its own course ...: President Barack Obama said the withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraq means.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Obama: Iraq begins and ends with I, I, I: It’s too bad there are no reporters with the balls or integrity to publicly ask Obambi if we are leaving Iraq because Bush won the war when Obama said it could not be won and also because the Bush administration exit plan is being followed rather than Obama’s.

[The Olympian Online -- Nation & World] Obama: Iraq war is ending, Baghdad to chart future - Nation ...: "In the months ahead, our troops will continue to support and train Iraqi forces, partner with Iraqis in counterterrorism missions and protect our civilian and military efforts," Obama said, a day before ending his 10-day Martha's Vineyard vacation to travel to New Orleans and mark another somber date: the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

[Relevant News] Obama says Iraq war is ending, his promise is kept (Reuters ...: President Barack Obama said on Saturday Iraq could “chart its own course” and told Americans the drawdown of U.S. troops helped fulfill a promise he made during the 2008 presidential campaign

[Politics News] Obama says Iraq war is ending, his promise is kept - politicsNews: President Barack Obama said on Saturday Iraq could “chart its own course” and told Americans the drawdown of U.S. troops helped fulfill a promise he made during the 2008 presidential campaign.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - On ...: Ahead of an Oval Office address Tuesday on the Iraq war and a major milestone in the seven-year conflict, President Obama used his weekly address to tout the fulfillment of a campaign promise and to make a promise to America’s newest veterans.

[News] Obama says Iraq war is ending, his promise is kept (Reuters): Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Saturday Iraq could chart its own course and told Americans the drawdown of.

[Onesource Consulting - Business Advisory Services] Obama Says Iraq War Is 'Ending,' Promises Support for Veterans ...: 28 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama declared that the war in Iraq is “ending” and pledged to help veterans cope with their return to civilian life, as he prepared to mark the transition of the U.S. mission from combat to training. “The bottom line is this: the war is ending,” Obama .

[Will Blog for Food] Will Blog for Food: Obama Says Iraq War Is Ending, His Promise Is Kept: Obama's Saturday remarks may be a preview of a rare, televised address the president plans on Tuesday evening from the White House Oval Office about the troop drawdown.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: How Cheney, Wolfowitz, Feith, Frum, Bolton and the rest of the "neo-clowns" are COMPLETE LIARS, who knew that Iraq was not responsible for 9/11, was not a major threat to the United States – and because these guys are on the extreme right, they naturally hate government (and are probably delighted that the Iraq War has helped "bankrupt" the United States).

[POLITICO Top Stories] Obama: Iraq drawdown a promise kept - Carol E. Lee - POLITICO.com: Obama, who won Ohio with 52 percent of the vote in 2008 but now has an approval rating in the low 40s, continued to attack Republicans as a party with “an attitude of, ‘What’s good enough for me is good enough.’ ”

[News] Boehner, president to deliver competing speeches on Iraq - The ...: FACT: "BITEME" Biden was the progressive Idiot who wanted to divide Iraq into three parts and voted against the "Surge" just like his Coward-in-Chief and NOW they want to take the credit! It makes them feel intelligent while drinking Kool-Aid!

[Flopping Aces] Obama's Stimulus Cost More Than The Entire Iraq War [Reader Post]: I also find it somewhat arbitrary to say that our expenditures in Iraq after September are to be considered under some separate account. However the operations are labeled for accounting purposes, we have been spending money maintaining a military presence in and around Iraq for about twenty years, and are going to continue to do so for another ten or so if current plans are to be believed.

[News] Anti-war activists claim 'partial success' for Iraq combat pullout ...: Balicki called the withdrawal of combat forces from Iraq “a baby step,” but said Code Pink and the anti-war movement could claim credit for framing the debate that dominated the elections in 2006 and the Democratic presidential primary in 2008.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: Of course the tan man is not going to say anything to credit Obama I find it interesting that this idiot has no clue how to get americans back to work except to give more money to the wealthy at the american voters expense if they were expected to create jobs with that money then were are the jobs they had eight years to show it SHOW ME THE JOBS TAN MAN

[The Common Ills] Iraq snapshot « The Common Ills:  The Iraqi government, while it seems paralyzed on many fronts, has unleashed a wave of actions against the country's unions that are intended to take Iraq back to the era when Saddam Hussein prohibited them for most workers, and arrested activists who protested. In just the last few months, the Maliki government has issued arrest warrants for oil union leaders and transferred that union's officers to worksites hundreds of miles from home, prohibited union activity in the oil fields, ports and refineries, forbade unions from collecting dues or opening bank accounts, and even kept leaders from leaving the country to seek support while the government cracks down. 

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[Informed Comment] 64 Dead, 274 Wounded in Iraq War on Police | Informed Comment: Muqtada is not, however, easy to strong-arm, and is now reportedly considering relocating to Beirut as a way of escaping Iranian pressure and also of retaining his independence from the Iraqi political scene. (He may also be thinking he could fill the vacuum created by the death of Lebanese grand ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah.) The rumors were denied by Muqtada’s spokesmen in Baghdad, who said it was much more likely that he would return to Iraq.

[Enduring America] Iraq Follow-Up: 64 Dead in Bombings ”” What is the Significance ...: Muqtada is not, however, easy to strong-arm, and is now reportedly considering relocating to Beirut as a way of escaping Iranian pressure and also of retaining his independence from the Iraqi political scene. (He may also be thinking he could fill the vacuum created by the death of Lebanese grand ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah.) The rumors were denied by Muqtada’s spokesmen in Baghdad, who said it was much more likely that he would return to Iraq.

[Army Times - News] Fewer than 50000 U.S. troops in Iraq - Army News | News from ...: The White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan, meanwhile, hailed the troop drawdown as a "truly remarkable achievement." He acknowledged persistent terrorist attacks in Iraq, but said the violence is at a "reduced level." Vice President Joe Biden called the troop reduction a "remarkable milestone."

[Raw Story] Military dog comes home from Iraq traumatized | Raw Story: Instead of addressing the REAL culprit, the failed foreign policy, or even abdicating responsibility once the military men/women return limbless, they're frakking worried about whether to label dogs with the same medical condition and how it would demean the servicemen/women. What a bunch of delusional F*CKS.

[Republicans & Conservatives] Republicans & Conservatives: How We Won in Iraq: Building on this success and experience in Afghanistan, in November 2005, Secretary of State Rice established Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Iraq. In January 2007, President Bush announced the establishment of embedded PRTs, who work directly with military units such as Regimental Combat Teams.

[Abu Muqawama] Quote of the Afternoon (Iraq Edition) | Center for a New American ...: This is a very debatable point, but I would argue the critical mass of insurgent activity in Iraq relates to a level of violence the population finds acceptable, a belief that there will not be a return to the sectarian violence of '06 and '07, and that country is generally moving toward improvement. So at the end of the day, with the way America has geared its political and military operations, victory in Iraq will come down to when the Iraqi population believes victory has been achieved.

[Georgetown Security Law Brief] Georgetown Security Law Brief: Iraq talks on forming government to ...: appeals court for Iraq's Justice and Accountability Commission overturned a ban on nine newly elected members of parliament accused of having ties to the banned Baath Party.The ad hoc commission was created to eliminate Iraqi officials with potential connections to regime of Saddam Hussein, who led the Baath party during his presidency. Eight of the banned candidates were members of the Sunni-backed coalition Iraqiya, which received the plurality of votes in the March 2010 parliamentary elections by a two-seat margin.

[GayPatriot] GayPatriot » “Stimulus” More Expensive than Iraq War?: They ascribe Bush-era deficits to the Iraq war, when in reality, the deficits are explained (or are more than covered) by his and the GOP’s wasteful, unnecessary increases in discretionary domestic spending in the 2001-2006 period. (Followed by congressional Democrats spending even more in 2007-8.)

[Arab News Blog] Arab News Blog » 64 Dead, 274 Wounded in Iraq War on Police: Muqtada is not, however, easy to strong-arm, and is now reportedly considering relocating to Beirut as a way of escaping Iranian pressure and also of retaining his independence from the Iraqi political scene. (He may also be thinking he could fill the vacuum created by the death of Lebanese grand ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah.) The rumors were denied by Muqtada’s spokesmen in Baghdad, who said it was much more likely that he would return to Iraq.

[The Star-Ledger Editorial Page] Post-war Iraq remains uncertain | NJ.com - blog.nj.com: We have a president who has recently snubbed the Boy Scouts of America on their 100th anniversary and chose to visit a sub sandwich shop in Edison NJ in a historically democratic county that EX-Governor Democrat Corzine lost "that wasn't in his vocabulary to lose" after being endorsed by obama and biden, this so-called president consistently snubs the Military and the American people which he is doing intentionally here once again and seems to find an urgency to "forcefully endorse" building a mosque in the vicinity of Ground Zero which remains a large hole in the earth since the 9/11 attacks almost 10 years later? This is a very nasty and aggressive person as you will learn to see through his character as he attempts to push "his" agenda like a wolf in sheep's clothing.

[Jay Bookman] In Iraq, official U.S. optimism contradicts (lack of) progress on ...: As a young man, serving in Da Nang, I didn’t seem to have the maturity that age has brought and I thought all of those war protesters were certainly not “good Americans”. The ones that spit on me, my wife and young son in the Santa Barbara airport on my return from VN didn’t endear me to their cause either.

[Israpundit] Israpundit » Blog Archive » LEAVING IRAQ,”¦”¦”¦ ANOTHER AMERICAN DEFEAT: Would it strain everyone’s credibility if I stated that the number of deaths within the ranks of the 50000 American “advisers and trainers” will be as much as, if not more than, the number of deaths suffered by the combat soldiers since the beginning of OIF?

[POLITICO Top Stories] Officials: We could still lose Iraq - Simmi Aujla - POLITICO.com: Now Iraq held elections more than 6 months ago and still haven't formed a gov, I say they are waiting for us to leave before they start going at each other. If the parties didn't feel an urgency to form a gov when the Americans were there, what's going to happen when the Americans are gone, here is Iraq where the congress hasn't met in more than 6 months and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki rules like a dictator.

[Scotty Starnes's Blog] Iraq and Mexico are Safer than Socialist Venezuela « Scotty ...: _qoptions={qacct:'p-18-mFEk4J448M',labels:'language.en,posttag.liberals,posttag.socialism,posttag.socialist,posttag.venezuela,posttag.crime,posttag.libtards,posttag.iraq,posttag.mexico,posttag.hugo-chavez,posttag.oliver-stone,posttag.sean-penn,posttag.dictator,posttag.crime-rate,posttag.murders'};

[Raw Story] New spy chief who hyped Iraq WMD 'may invade Finland' | Raw Story: According to the New York Times, Clapper, who was then head of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, "said satellite imagery showing a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria, just before the American invasion in March, .Dick Cheney must be very proud of his smiling pro-torture, pro-assassination, pro-war protege.

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[The Long War Journal] Fatah al Islam chief killed while traveling to Iraq - The Long War ...: In 2007, the Lebanese military carried out a major offensive against Fatah al Islam in the Nahr al Bared Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon. At least 222 Fatah al Islam terrorists and 171 Lebanese soldiers were killed during the 15-week battle.

[My Catbird Seat] The Iraq Legacy: Tell It Like It Is | My Catbird Seat: It’s true that Iraqis suffered under the brutal rule of Saddam Hussein but his overthrow did not lead to a better life for Iraqis. “I am not a political person, but I know that under Saddam Hussein, we had electricity, clean drinking water, a healthcare system that was the envy of the Arab world and free education through college,”

[Veterans Today] The Iraq Legacy: Tell It Like It Is : Veterans Today: It would certainly give some comfort to the grieving families of the over 4,400 soldiers killed in Iraq if their sacrifices had left Iraq a better place or made America safer. But the bitter truth is that the U.S. intervention has been an utter disaster for both Iraq and the United States.

[Mondoweiss] Israeli army escorts 500 Jewish Israelis into controversial ...: An article in the latest issue of The New Yorker Magazine by Jane Mayer profiles billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, two of the richest men in America who have quietly given more than a hundred million dollars to right-wing causes. Mayer writes, "The [Koch] brothers have funded opposition campaigns against so many Obama Administration policies–from health-care reform to the economic-stimulus program–that, in political circles, their ideological network is known as the Kochtopus."

[Politicususa] Reflections on a Crusade Gone Wrong: Bush's Iraq War 2003-2010 ...: Unfortunately, despite the Constitutional wall of separation between church and state, this crusading message was allowed to go forward by the evangelical Bush administration. It was not enough to fight a war against somebody who was supposed to have attacked us in a most dastardly fashion;

[Mondoweiss] Palestinian farm set afire, four well permits denied, and other news: When the Barack Obama administration unveiled its plan last week for an improvised State Department-controlled army of contractors to replace all U.S. combat troops in Iraq by the end of 2011, critics associated with the U.S. command attacked the transition plan, insisting that the United States must continue to assume that U.S. combat forces should and can remain in Iraq indefinitely.

[zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero] Wikileaks Latest: The USA As An Exporter Of Terrorism? | zero hedge: If you ever climbed out of your hole and happened to ever read the international news, you would have known that back a few years in that timeframe, a CIA counter-weapons proliferation operation by the name of Brewster Jennings (which had a supervisor by name of Valerie Plame) happened to intercept a shipment of VX gas being smuggled over the Turkish border into Iraq.

[Sabbah Report] Towards a World War III Scenario? The Role of Israel in Triggering ...: US Central Command in Florida, which is responsible for the Middle East-Central Asian region, See map below) as well as coalition command units in Israel, Turkey, the Persian Gulf and the Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean. Military planning and decision making at a country level by individual allies of US-NATO as well as "partner nations"

[Untitled] The Tragedy of Iraq's Jews «: [54] Over the decades, there has been much heated debate over whether the bombs were in fact planted by the Mossad in order to encourage Iraqi Jews toe emigrate to the newly created state of Israel or whether they were the work of genuine anti-Jewish extremists in Iraq. The issue has been the subject of lawsuits and inquiries in Israel.[55] In May and June 1951, the arms caches of the Zionist underground in Iraq, which had been supplied from Palestine/Israel since the Farhud of 1941, were discovered.

[Socio-Economics History Blog] Towards a World War III Scenario? The Role of Israel in Triggering ...: The war on Iran was viewed as part of a succession of military operations.  According to (former) NATO Commander General Wesley Clark, the Pentagon’s military road-map consisted of a sequence of countries: “[The] Five-year campaign plan [includes]… a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.”  In “Winning Modern Wars”

[Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of Military Blogs (Milblogs)] permalink - Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of ...: "In the past six to eight months, I've seen hundreds of cases, from majors and lower-level officers, to mid-level ranks and everything in between," said Christopher Grey, spokesman for the Army's Criminal Investigation Division based in northern Virginia. "It happens, quite frankly, from Australia to Ireland."

[Video Cafe's feed] BREAKING: Last Combat Brigade Leaves Iraq; Operation Iraqi Freedom ...: Still, a White House spokesman reiterated Wednesday night that the combat mission in Iraq formally ends on August 31. At that time, Operation Iraqi Freedom becomes Operation New Dawn, with troops serving as trainers for the Iraqi .

[Crooks and Liars] BREAKING: Last Combat Brigade Leaves Iraq; Operation Iraqi Freedom ...: We reduce the number of "combat troops" in Iraq, but escalate in Afghanistan, build up our forces in Colombia, conduct war games off the coast of Korea, deploy nuclear-armed submarines to the Red Sea, expand our covert wars in Pakistan, .which is a little distorted but I'll let that go, and please know I am not an Israel defender, but the same point could be made about Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, China, the US, Russia, .

[Mideast Youth] Mideast Youth » Blog Archive » The BlackBerry war - Thinking Ahead: In the dispute over the data control of the smartphone will Saudi Arabia on Friday shut down the short message service, which seeks to prevent the Canadian company still in negotiations. India also insists on access to encrypted data: “Our position is clear: BlackBerry services provided by our authorities can not be monitored fully, must be interrupted,”

[nvs' Blog] Netanyahu angered by leaks in Israel generals' feud « nvs' Blog: Other candidates for chief of staff were Gadi Eisenkot, Israel’s northern commander along the Lebanese border, Gadi Shamni, military attache at the Washington embassy, and Avi Mizrahi, head of central command in the occupied West Bank.

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[Lux Libertas - Light and Liberty] Little-known fact: Obama's failed stimulus program cost more than ...: As American Thinker’s Randall Hoven points out, that’s the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation’s Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.

[Your "Issues" Blog] Obama tries in vain to continue blaming Bush for economy”¦facts ...: The meme is simple: The economy is in a shambles because of Bush’s economic policies and his war in Iraq. As American Thinker’s Randall Hoven points out, that’s the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation’s Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.

[Gateway Pundit] Another Lie Exposed”¦ It Wasn't Bush's War - gatewaypundit ...: It's been used by leftist hacks before, and since all three articles quoted are also by leftist hacks, it should come as no surprise they pick up and spread the meme. We can debate the efficacy of the stimulus, and the necessity of the Iraq war, but to simply cite “Democratic policies” as “bankrupting” America is blatantly partisan and demonstrably dishonest.

[barryfail.com] Obama's failed stimulus program cost more than the Iraq war ...: Expect to hear a lot about how much the Iraq war cost in the days ahead from Democrats worried about voter wrath against their unprecedented spending excesses. The meme is simple: The economy is in a shambles because of Bush’s economic policies and his war in Iraq

[Bastiat Institute] Rebranding the Iraq War | Bastiat Institute: Lew and investigative reporter Russ Baker discuss the permanent but invisible government: the merchants of death, the bankster-state alliance, rotten American exceptionalism, and the Bush Family as rich and dangerous agents of the Rockefeller world empire. Samuel Bush, Prescott Bush, George H.W.

[Mediaite] Glenn Beck | Glenn Beck 2006 GMA Video | Ground Zero Mosque | Mediaite: The meme is simple: The economy is in a shambles because of Bush’s economic policies and his war in Iraq….The key point in the mantra is an alleged $3 trillion cost for the war. Well, it was expensive to be sure, in both blood and treasure, but, as Hoven notes, the CBO puts the total cost at $709 billion…

[naked capitalism] Questioning the “The Authorities Did a Great Job in the Crisis ...: If McCain had become President, or if the crisis had hit a year earlier under Bush, the stimulus response would have been even smaller and completely oriented to tax cuts for rich people and business, with even more f the resulting Government debt spilling into overseas investment and consumption (Keynsianism for China and Germany!!)I think Zandi’s estimate of where unemployment would have been without Obama’s and Summers half-hearted stimulus of 11.5 to 13%.

[Da Sticky Icky] for all you Bush haters. | Da Sticky Icky: The meme is simple: The economy is in a shambles because of Bush's economic policies and his war in Iraq. As American Thinker's Randall Hoven points out, that's the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation's Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.

[Marijuana.com] for all you Bush haters. - Marijuana.com: * Just the first two years of Obama's stimulus cost more than the entire cost of the Iraq War under President Bush, or six years of that war.

[Bad Gone Blog] Obama's Failed Stimulus Program Cost More than Iraq War: The meme is simple: The economy is in a shambles because of Bush’s economic policies and his war in Iraq. As American Thinker’s Randall Hoven points out, that’s the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation’s Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.

[The Obama Watch Blog] Obama's Failed Stimulus Cost More Than Iraq War « The Obama Watch Blog: As American Thinker’s Randall Hoven points out, that’s the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation’s Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.

[Snow Report Blog] MARK TAPSCOTT: Little-known fact: Obama's failed stimulus program ...: The meme is simple: The economy is in a shambles because of Bush’s economic policies and his war in Iraq. As American Thinker’s Randall Hoven points out, that’s the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation’s Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.

[WitStop] Obama's failed stimulus program cost more than the Iraq war - WitStop: The meme is simple: The economy is in a shambles because of Bush's economic policies and his war in Iraq. As American Thinker's Randall Hoven points out, that's the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation's Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.

[Safe Income Strategies Blog] Little-known fact: Obama's failed stimulus program cost more than ...: The meme is simple: The economy is in a shambles because of Bush’s economic policies and his war in Iraq. As American Thinker’s Randall Hoven points out, that’s the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation’s Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.

[Bastiat Institute] Obama Plays Down Plan for Post-2011 Iraq Troop Presence | Bastiat ...: Lew and investigative reporter Russ Baker discuss the permanent but invisible government: the merchants of death, the bankster-state alliance, rotten American exceptionalism, and the Bush Family as rich and dangerous agents of the Rockefeller world empire. Samuel Bush, Prescott Bush, George H.W.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Five hundred days of Summers: I'm also familiar with the counterarguments””that a bigger stimulus never would have passed, that stemming foreclosures has the side effect of artificially propping home prices, for example””but on balance, I'm in the “Obama could have done better” ..... In Congress, I am one of the most outspoken opponents of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before I was elected, I spent years prosecuting war profiteers. So I know what I'm talking about. Unlike chickenhawk Kurt Kelly. ...

[Daily Wire - Breaking News | Murray Report] Did the stimulus cost more than the Iraq war?: The meme is simple: The economy is in a shambles because of Bush's economic policies and his war in Iraq. As American Thinker's Randall Hoven points out, that's the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation's Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.

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[Stevex09] Obama's Stimulus Costs More Than Iraq War? « Stevex09: Just for grins, use the above chart to dissect Christopher Hayes’ statement that our current and future deficits are caused by “three things: the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush tax cuts and the recession.”

[Lux Libertas - Light and Liberty] Little-known fact: Obama's failed stimulus program cost more than ...: The meme is simple: The economy is in a shambles because of Bush’s economic policies and his war in Iraq. As American Thinker’s Randall Hoven points out, that’s the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation’s Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.

[The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment] Little-known fact: Obama's failed stimulus program cost more than ...: Obama book reading hints at continued opposition to Iraq war · GOP Senate candidate in Connecticut hammers Democrat again on honesty · Mason-Dixon poll: Scott, McCollum spend $70M in governor's race .

[RealClearWorld - Articles] RealClearWorld - Will Iraq Be Obama's South Vietnam?: We currently station troops at checkpoints along disputed areas between Arabs and Kurds in the north of Iraq. The hope is that two embassy branches in Kirkuk and Mosul will fulfill the same friction-reducing function after we draw down, but diplomats mostly confined to their posts can’t replace boots on the ground.

[B2 Journal] B2 Journal | Failed Obama Stimulus Cost More Than Iraq War: No comments for “Failed Obama Stimulus Cost More Than Iraq War”

[Comments On National Amnesia] Obama's Stimulus Plan Cost More Than Iraq War | Comments On ...: The memo is simple: The economy is in a shambles because of Bush’s economic policies and his war in Iraq. As American Thinker’s Randall Hoven points out, that’s the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation’s Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.

[PocketFives] Obama's Stimulus Costs More Than The Whole Iraq War: Your posts are tilting me so I am just going to go wander off into the sunset and pretend that people are not silly enough to think that the stimulus was a good thing for the economy. You apparently have reading comprehension problems...the topic of this thread is about the stimulus plan costing more than the wars and all I've argued is that it didn't.

[This Just In] Fewer than 50000 U.S. troops now in Iraq, lowest since 2003 - This ...: About the only thing Obama did to make this happen was a no brainer and that was to retain Gates (who pretty much made this happen). I'm a Dem but hate to tell Obama having an election with a double dip recession starting is probably not going to help his agenda for the next two years.

[Ben Hart's "Escape Tyranny" | Conservative News] Obama's failed stimulus program cost more than the Iraq war: As American Thinker’s Randall Hoven points out, that’s the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation’s Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.

[Bad Gone Blog] Obama's Failed Stimulus Program Cost More than Iraq War: The meme is simple: The economy is in a shambles because of Bush’s economic policies and his war in Iraq. As American Thinker’s Randall Hoven points out, that’s the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation’s Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.

[blog.Tribulationperiod.com] THE MAJOR DETERRENT TO MIDDLE EAST WAR! « blog.Tribulationperiod.com: Obama, who was an opponent of the Iraq war from the beginning and promised on the road to the White House to withdraw US forces as quickly as possible, has insisted the ongoing pullout is on schedule and will not be altered. The US troops “will continue to conduct partnered counter-terrorism operations” in an effort “to help Iraqi security forces maintain pressure on the extremist networks and protect the citizens of Iraq,” Major Christopher Perrine told AFP.

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[DPGI] It's Bush's fault « DPGI: Deficits with and without Iraq War. Just for grins, use the above chart to dissect Christopher Hayes' statement that our current and future deficits are caused by “three things: the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush tax cuts and the recession .

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: The Iraqi war is coming to an end, no American involvement is coming to an end, we are withdrawing "combat" forces and leaving 50,000 targets of opportumity for the "liberated" Iraqi's to take shots at. I hope for the sake of our soldiers they are given ROE that permit hem to defend themselves and not have to receive permission to return fire if fired upon.

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[WORLDmag.com | Community] WORLDmag.com | Community | Blog Archive | AP Poll: Support for the ...: With just over 10 weeks before nationwide elections that could define the remainder of Obama’s first term, only 38 percent say they support his expanded war effort in Afghanistan, a drop from 46 percent in March. Just 19 percent expect the situation to improve during the next year, while 29 percent think it will get worse.

[O'Dwyer's Blog: Covering PR, public affairs, marketing and the world of communications.] WSJ's Premature Call for 'Victory in Iraq Day - O'Dwyer's PR Blog: The celebratory WSJ takes time out to give a slap on the back President Bush, architect of the war of choice, for defying Congress and his own Iraq Sturdy Group to mount the 2007 “surge.” It grudgingly credits President Obama for delivering on the “responsible withdrawal” promised in his campaign.

[Suite101: Iraq Articles] The War in Iraq - A Senseless Military Blunder: This article briefly looks at the history of American military involvement in Iraq, the cost in human life and limb for combatants and non-combatants both American and Iraqi. The cost of the war in terms of dollars and cents and by American public opinion polled today has seemed to accomplish very little in the way of long term stability for the Iraqi people or the world.

[Congress Blog] The Big Question: Did the United States succeed in Iraq? - The ...: Our invasion and occupation of Iraq, as many of the commentators noted, was disaster from day one—as good an example as will be found of why shoot-first-and-ask-questions later "strategies" seldom work. The Neo-Cons who led the call to war have cost us—in dollars, lives, and national reputation—and will keep on costing us as it becomes evident the problems of the Middle East will not be solved as long as there are those there who see Israelis as occupiers and the U.S. as the reason Israel has lasted for 62 years.

[Civil War Swords] Jai Jai Mahakali Aayo Aayo Gorkhali | Civil War Swords: Following India’s independence in 1947, India, Nepal and Great Britain signed the Tripartite Agreement.  Six regiments of the Gurkha Rifles joined the Indian Army. The British held on to the 2nd King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles, the 6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles, the 7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles and the 10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles (all of which existed till 1994, thereafter they became the Royal Gurkha Rifles).

[The Pensive Quill] The Pensive Quill: Fred Halliday: Many in the sectarian leftist factions (and beyond) who marched against the impending Iraq war showed no qualms about their alignment with radical Muslim organisations, one that has since spiralled from a tactical cooperation to something far more elaborated. It is fascinating to see in the publications of leftist groups and commentators, for example, how history is being rewritten and the language of political argument adjusted to (as it were) accommodate this new accommodation …

[Iraq Reviews] Iraq Reviews: FLASHES FROM FRONTS OF CRISIS AND WAR (Iraq ...: Wikileaks Did More to Impact the Afghan War Than 9 Years of ...: A Washington Post editorial argued that the 195 deaths mentioned in the WikiLeaks files “do not constitute a shocking total for a four-year period.

[Antiwar.com Original] All Lies, All the Time by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com: However what is more and more the reality, look at Jugoslavia or the Horn of Africa where they also bombed every historically grown structure out of the people, they leave only destruction (in Mocambique now piracy and almost complete lawlessness) and things to clean up for others.

[Lawyers, Guns & Money] Mistakes were made : Lawyers, Guns & Money: I don’t expect a guy with a Harvard degree to try to come off as Bruce Springsteen, but reflexively looking to social and politcal (and religious) elites for guidance, and then believing that such guidance would in any way be beneficial to the majority of people bespeaks a very sheltered and cosseted existence.

[Veterans Today] Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today's News : Veterans Today: In continuing coverage, the KTHV-TV Little Rock, AR (8/18, Scott) website said the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has “received a $1.2 million federal grant to research prescription drug .The AP goes on to say that in California, a “succession of crosses erected in Mojave National Preserve to honor America's war dead have been the subject of a legal dispute for about a decade.

[AltWeeklies.com Highlights] Broadband of Brothers | War & Peace | AltWeeklies.com: “But I didn’t end up spending too much time reading these soldier-written blogs, because some of them had been shut down and most of the ones that weren’t shut down were just saying a bunch of brainwashed rhetoric, like, ‘Oh, the Iraqi people love us, we’re doing the right thing. I love the Army, I love my job, I love my country, I love our president.’ That gets old after a while, and if I wanted to read stuff like that I’d go to the official U.S. Army recruiting Web site,” Buzzell wrote.

[Locust blog] Bad economic news stuns investors « Locust blog: I asked, “Well, what is going to happen to those people that we can’t re”‘educate, that are die-hard capitalists?” And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated and when I pursued this further, they estimated that they’d have to eliminate 25 million people in these re”‘education centers. And when I say eliminate, I mean kill 25 million people.

[China Rises: Notes from the Middle Kingdom] McClatchy blog: China Rises: They may not like what they see when the realities of what America has done in Afghanistan - but images of dead monks in Tibet or slaughtered young children and raped and disfigured women in Somolia, Sudan and the Congo or Chechen fighters disfigured by mines .well, you get the idea - yeah I don't think that's going to sit too well with them either.

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[OnTheRedCarpet.com Entertainment News] Stephen Colbert's 'The Colbert Report' to honor U.S. soldiers ...: "Expect visits from, among others, Vice President Joe Biden and Commanding General Ray Odierno,' the blog says.

[ArtsBeat] Colbert to Welcome Home Iraq Troops in Special Broadcasts ...: As American troops return from concluding combat operations in Iraq, some of them will soon be deployed to a friendlier front: the studio audience of “The Colbert Report.” On his Comedy Central broadcast Thursday night, Stephen Colbert, .“The Colbert Report,” which has found no shortage of satirical material in American affairs in the Middle East, became the first comedy show to be entirely taped, edited and broadcast in a war zone when Mr.

[PopEater] Stephen Colbert to Honor Troops Returning From Iraq | PopEater.com: Stephen Colbert is dusting off his camouflage suit. The comedian will broadcast two special episodes of Comedy Central's 'The Colbert Report' to celebrate the end of combat operations in Iraq and to honor returning troops.

[News Briefs] Stephen Colbert specials to honor 'Returnification' of Iraq troops ...: 8 and 9, featuring an audience composed entirely of Iraq war veterans, both in the studio and via satellite from Walter Reed Army Hospital and Afghanistan. Special guests will include Vice President Joe Biden and Commanding General Ray Odierno (the soldier who shaved Colbert's head at last June).

[Untitled] Colbert Celebrates the End of Iraq War |: “ After all,” Colbert said, “if this man hadn't lead us into war, it certainly wouldn't be over now.” (Source: Comedy Central). Share and Enjoy: Print · Digg · Sphinn · del.icio.us · Facebook · Mixx · Google Bookmarks · Blogplay .

[KITV.com - Entertainment News] Colbert To Honor Troops Returning From Iraq - Entertainment News ...: Odierno famously shaved Colbert's head - on President Barack Obama's orders - when the comedian broadcast four episodes of "The Report" from Baghdad last year. On that visit, Colbert donned a camouflage suit and reported from a desk supported by sand bags.

[WETM: National News] Colbert to honor troops returning from Iraq - WETM 18 Online: Odierno famously shaved Colbert's head on President Barack Obama's orders when the comedian broadcast four episodes of the hit show from Baghdad last year. On that visit, Colbert donned a camouflage suit and reported from a desk supported by sand bags.

[women's blog] StephenCole Burt withdrawal from Iraq, to honor the election ...: The comedian will be broadcast on both Comedy Central's 'Colbert Report special circumstances' to celebrate the end of combat operations in Iraq and to fulfill the return units. Raise his arms in victory, Colbert decided to give credit where credit is due.

[Raw Story] Colbert: Hillary's campaign strategy like US Iraq strategy - Raw ...: [...] Counterterrorism Blog: Newslinks Archives wrote an interesting post today on Colbert compares Clinton win to Iraq strategyHere’s a quick excerptStephen Colbert devotes his “The Word” segment to a comparison of Hillary Clinton’s Pennsylvania win and the US strategy in Iraq. [...]

[Mediaite] Conservative Bloggers | Worst Americans | Tim McVeigh | Mediaite: There was also Alex Jones, making a cottage industry out of accusing Bush of blowing up the WTC, Andrew Sullivan’s obsessive deranged belief that Sarah Palin is not Trig Palin’s mother, any number of Daily Show and Colbert Report and Bill Maher jokes about Bush’s stupidity, washed up comedienne Margaret Cho calling Sarah Palin “evil,” countless anti-Bush diatribes by Keith Olbermann, Rosie O’Donnell’s entire tenure at ”˜The View’, the MoveOn-dot-org ad that morphed Bush into Hitler, Code Pink protesting at Crawford and making a celebrity out of deranged moonbat Cindy Sheehan, Berkeley California trying to shut down a Marine recruiting station, Marine recruiters harassed and chased out of a job fair in Santa Cruz CA, Oliver Stone’s Bush-bashing pic W, along with other odious troop-bashing films like Redacted, Stop Loss, Rendition, Lions for Lambs, and In the Valley of Elah, Michael Moore’s Bush-Bashing Fahrenheit 911 which Hollywood rewarded with an Oscar (and Michael Moore allowed to sit in the president’s box at the 2004 DNC convention). Bush Hatred was not limited to the fringe, it infected the entirety of the left;

[Shadow Government] Why Obama's speech on Iraq is another missed opportunity - By ...: I will be convinced of the calm when Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Really, Boehner, Gingrich, McConnell and any of the other loyal opposition emulate Colbert and actually go there. "Tomorrow is another day" has no greater and direct meaning than in the middle east.

[Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] 'Colbert Report': Laura Ingraham Gets Owned - Truthdig: more and more innocent civilians dying by the day in a senseless Global War Of Terror that serves only a Global Finance Oligarchy - never mind - it's all happening out of sight, out of mind - just keep on laughing - it's all just so damned funny: .

[FAIR Blog] FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Kathleen Parker Channels Stephen Colbert: As a woman, what I found disturbing about Parker's original article was that she characterized Obama's actions as womanly and, therefore, negative in her analysis.

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[hottrendsite.info] US Announces Second Fake End to Iraq War ”” News from Antiwar.com ...: It was perhaps a different sort of scripted, mythical end to the Iraq War than the last one, the May 1, 2003 Mission Accomplished speech of.

[Business Insider] NBC's Gripping Exclusive Footage Of The Last US Combat Troops ...: Flag as Offensive nicko

[Grendel Report] Justin Raimondo: An American Neo-Fascist - Grendel Report: Many fascist movements have been expansionist and imperialist, but others were historically known for their promotion of disaffection and demoralization, such as those in France and England before the Second World War, and the isolationist legion in America at the same time, which Raimondo seeks to revive. The Rosetta Stone of his philosophy is Buchanan’s idea of the betrayed “American republic”

[Antiwar.com Original] Cordoba House: The Acid Test by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com: They think that because the US supports Israel, and that because the 9/11 attacks were partly the result of such US policy, that one way for them to object to that policy is to do anything that offends US feelings in regard to 9/11 and to slap people in the face who may still have raw feelings over it – thus, they want the mosque to be built.

[Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of Military Blogs (Milblogs)] Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of Military Blogs ...: Veteran-turned-comedian PJ Walsh has announced dates for the debut of his solo show, "Over There - Comedy Is His Best Weapon," at New York's Fringe Festival. The show traces PJ's journey of hardship and hilarity from enlisted man to comic on duty.

[My Personal Blog] Barack Obama's Connections to Socialism, Communism and Racial ...: Seven workers were convicted on felony charges in Seattle because of fake registration forms and some of the workers indicted already. Three Workers argued in 2007 found guilty and finally settled ACORN is the largest case of election fraud in Washington State history, paying $ 25,000 in restitution.

[Okelah Kalo Begitu] US Announces Second Fake End to Iraq War ”” News from Antiwar.com ...: It was perhaps a different sort of scripted, mythical end to the Iraq War than the last one, the May 1, 2003 &8220;Mission Accomplished&8221; speech of President Bush, but it was no more real, as over 50,000 US troops remain on the ground in Iraq tonight.

[The Radical Middle] Murder One, Mosque Zero - The Radical Middle - post-gazette.com: But more to the point, why go to war with Iraq to the point of obliterating its governing infrastructure, and have nothing more sophisticated or intelligent to replace it except "Free people will embrace democracy?"  Answer:  a good number of folks who desired war with Iraq desired it before intelligence about WMD was inflated and delivered, before 9/11, before the end of the 1st Gulf War and for thoroughly ulterior reasons.

[Antiwar.com Original] The Next War by Robert Koehler -- Antiwar.com: American citizens are seen as intelligent people among the best educated nation how did they miss that USA is at risk from Sdddam / Ahmadinedjad or even OBL who actually never played any part in 911 or even acknowledge being part of 911. what are these young or old soldiers learning from all the past events haven't they realised that their government waste on war is beyond their means haven't noticed that the invasion of Iraq was a massive crime against a nation that has done nothing to USA haven't the American realised that the whole government should be begind bars for the waste of trillions and the mass crimes against IRaqis and the death of 5000 US soldiers for a fabricated war.

[First Light Forum] Nick Berg Jew Psyop Revisited ”” “by way of deception make war ...: The video above appears to be the execution of Nick Berg, however there are several obvious problems with this video.  First off Doctor Raul Castro Guevara, a surgeon and forensic expert in Mexico City, says that there is no way that the individual in the video was alive with his heart pumping while his neck was being cut. The doctor adds that in these cases, while the heart is pumping, cutting a person’s artery in the neck, would cause huge amounts of blood to spurt all over the immediate environment.  When the executioner holds up Berg’s head immediately following what is represented as an actual decapitation of a living person, there is no significant blood flow from the neck or blood splatters showing anywhere on the executioner.

[Breitbart.tv] Breitbart.tv » Which Gov't Program is Real or Fake?: Obama knows he must have an army of Marxist thugs to complete the overthrow, whether uniformed military or civilian brownshirts. Obama doesn't have the military on his side regarding his political agenda, thank God, or we'd already being beat and shot for dissent.

[Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of Military Blogs (Milblogs)] Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of Military Blogs ...: If a federal health agency offered assistance in identifying and treating alcoholism to all who respond on Twitter, would you tweet a response? Would you sign your name to a GovLoop open discussion sponsored by the Internal Revenue Service on tips for identifying tax delinquents?

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » How serious a position is ...: That said, I think that the poll feels about right for the Tories, high 30’s, doing well but not well enough to win outright- Labour though seem a little high I would think lower 30’s more likely after the past month or so’s battering - non-the-less for a government doing a good impression of imploding before our very eyes they are holding on to their vote remarkably well. As for the LibDems 18% or so seems right as well, we know they have been squeezed under 20% by Cameron - but there’s no reason for a dramatic move up or down.

[This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here] This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here » Blog Archive ...: It seems that the way that the Law is being viewed by the ACLU is that the Stolen Valor Act will go after anyone with the same level of punishment for wearing fake medals regardless of if it was a National Defense Medal or the Congressional Medal of Honor. But we know that we are not going to throw someone in Jail for wearing a Army Service Ribbon they did not earn.

[The Desk of Brian] Is it Change or is it the same same - Rants & Raves | The Desk of ...: The White House has been under attack in recent months not just from its usual enemy camp of conservatives and Republicans, but from those on the left who complain Obama was weak on health-care reform, is dragging his feet on closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba and has moved too slowly to end the ban on gays serving in the military.

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[Mediaite] Iraq Troop | Withdrawal - MSNBC - Rachel Maddow | Mediaite: He carried out such anti-American and anti-corporatist policies as starting the process of nationalizing foreign oil companies in Iraq, withdrawing Iraq from the US-initiated right-wing Baghdad Pact (which included another military-run, US-puppet state, i.e., Pakistan) and decriminalizing the Iraqi Communist Party. Despite these actions, and more likely because of them, he was Iraq’s most popular leader.

[Google Trends Information] Last full U.S. fight band of soldiers leaves Iraq | Google Trends ...: Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to .down" is an example in the Iraq theatre, and "Horse Soldiers .

[Sister Toldjah] Last combat brigade returns home from Iraq « Sister Toldjah: Sorry to sound all bitter-clingy on this, but it still rankles me to no end how Obama and Biden treated the issue of the war in Iraq both as candidates and now as President and VP, how they denigrated Bush’s efforts, and insulted our troops with talk of how Democrat policies were what turned things around there. Iraq is still an uphill climb at this point, but the shape they’re in today is far, far better than what things would be like if Obama, Biden, and other anti-war Democrats had had their way.

[Cafe Talk Aggregator] Fort Kafir | San Fernando Curt's Blog: Someday, when both houses of Congress and the White House gather on the steps of the Capitol to ceremonially burn what's left of the ol', dry parchment that is our outdated, small-time Constitution, it's conceivable few outside the Beltway will take notice. The rest of America will be distracted and emotionally drained by more important issues - future versions of the "ground zero mosque", Blago and death panels.

[War in Context] Fears of al Qaida return in Iraq as US-backed fighters defect ...: Sheikh Sabah al-Janabi, a leader of the Awakening Council - also known as the Sons of Iraq - based in Hila, 60 miles south of Baghdad, told the Guardian that 100 out of 1,800 rank-and-file members had not collected their salaries for the last two months: a clear sign, he believes, that they are now taking money from their former enemies.

[Crooks and Liars] BREAKING: Last Combat Brigade Leaves Iraq; Operation Iraqi Freedom ...: We reduce the number of "combat troops" in Iraq, but escalate in Afghanistan, build up our forces in Colombia, conduct war games off the coast of Korea, deploy nuclear-armed submarines to the Red Sea, expand our covert wars in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, increase our covert military/intelligence operations into a total of 75 different countries, provide military aid to a nation, Israel, which is laying siege to more than a million human beings, threaten war with Iran, and establish a security force of up to 50,000 Americans for the State Department's ever-growing presence in Iraq. Oh, and that's not to mention the 100,000+ American contractors who will remain in Iraq for the foreseeable future.

[Dispatches from the Flying M] Dispatches from the Flying M: It's Over: However, none of that means that the American Soldiers fighting in Iraq--99.999% of them--did anything but a noble, difficult duty, and did it well.  The Soldiers went after the bad guys and worked to protect the innocent, to rebuild a nation suffering under the boot of a tyrant and then with all its infrastructure demolished by war. 

[several's clip log] If Americans knew how many trillions we spend protecting oil we ...: A few dozen Iraqis who worked at the Oil Ministry weregathered outside the American cordon, and one of them, noting the protectionafforded his workplace and the lack of protection everywhere else, remarked tome, “It is all about oil.”

[The Beacon] The Iraq War Is Over | The Beacon: It appears the U.S. will continue to occupy both Iraq and Afghanistan for the indefinite future, seeing as how the Mr. Nobel Peace Prize is in charge of the wars and, although more Americans want the U.S. to leave, it seems fewer are .

[The Daily Slog] Slatest: “A truly historic end to seven years of war.” When Bieger's 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division left Iraq they became the final combat brigade from the United States to leave the country, making good on President Obama's promise to end ....

[Campaign For Liberty Blog] Campaign For Liberty ”” Leaving Afghanistan Behind: So I say out loud to the World we live in I disapprove of these wars on the basis of Natural Law alone let alone the Rule of Law and those who work to carrie out this outrageousness should be sent to Afghanistan to stand trial for war crimes against humanity and be resolved of citizenship and not be allowed to call themselves Americans, because Americans believe in Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness or you are far from American.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Peter Beinart Is Shrill: Anyone opposed to the idea of having an Islamic community center complete with mosque somewhat near ground zero is a prejudiced, fearful piece of shit, no matter their noble or ignoble biographies. Second, I thought it was pretty obvious from the beginning thata huge part of the Bush Jr.

[Cafe Talk Aggregator] Photo of a Child in Iraq | Rutabaga Ridgepole's Blog: Doris Lessing wrote a short story called "The Temptation of Jack Orkney" in which an aging foreign correspondent and activist accept, though he mourns: the apparent inability of mankind to learn from its own history; and the unwillingness of his son to even try.

[Media In Politics] Media In Politics » Blog Archive » Newsweek Ranks U.S. the 11th ...: The effort took several months, during which we received copious aid from an advisory board that included Nobel laureate and Columbia University professor Joseph E. Stiglitz; McKinsey & Co. Social Sector Office director Byron Auguste; ... First there was the diversion of military resources and attention from Afghanistan to Iraq ”” a draining, misdirected war and occupation that many believe never should have been launched. Then there was the long period of fiscal, ...

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[Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture] The Dream Ticket : Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture: Trifkovic is a great and courageous writer in a time marked by neither in the US.But I must dissent to the extent that one might believe Obama to be a better alternative.Obama is run by essentially the same crowd as McCain.Was the ever a worse enemy of the ,say,Serbs than Obama’s crowd of Holbrooke,Albright,etc.Is there a worse Russophobe than Zbig?Obama is a real weasel:for all the talk of withdrawal from Iraq,there are hints of new wars in even crazier places like Darfur.And Obama’s grovel-fest in front of AIPAC just about embarrassed everyone.The reality is that American power is in decline no matter who wins.Neither candidate will have the material resources to pursue an invasion of say South Ossetia.What I fear about Obama,however,is that the world may give a moral credence to the Boy Messiah and that could prolong Washington’s claim to leadership of a”multi-cultural” world.Obama may love habeas corpus for foreign terror suspects but why would you believe he would extend the same to domestic enemies of “multi-culturalism”?

[Political Forum-Global Times Forum-Discuss China, Discuss the world--The Most Open and Objective Forum in China] [Discussion] Top 10 Militant Animals - China Political & Defence ...: Today, dogs are used to sniff out explosives and find hidden munitions, while attack dogs accompany many military police units. The U.S. Army assigns each dog a rank, one higher than that of their handler, and when the handler is promoted, the dog is promoted as well.

[The Daily Bell - www.TheDailyBell.com] Does War Make a Hero?: has been supplanted by the Gucci-suited technocrat who believes he can create reality by simply pushing a button or issuing an order. By commanding black-winged jet fighters to blast his enemies out of existence, the modern Attila believes he is constructing a new reality, one where his whims, his prejudices, his prissy little orthodoxies have the force of natural law.

[Patterico's Pontifications] Patterico's Pontifications » Red States and Blue States: Carve the ...: And as Prop 8 showed in California, many blacks are socially conservative. And don't take the politics of inner city blacks as indicative of all blacks.

[Listverse] Top 10 Most Evil Men - Top 10 Lists | Listverse: Now also consider Genghis Khan…poured molten gold into people’s ears etc…had his men set up pyramids of severed heads from destroyed villages…also please note the Genghis quote: “The greatest joy a man can have is to see another man cry, to take away his possessions, to make love to his wives and daughters..”

[The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories] Barack Obama and Lyndon Johnson: History Reapeating Itself - The ...: But failing to recognize that enemies are actively trying to destroy you would be even crazier. We have a government now that tries desperately to pretend that radical Islam is not a mortal threat -- it wishes to remove the term "radical Islam" from the lexicon.

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[BrothersJudd Blog] BrothersJudd Blog: HUN SHRUNK THE EMPIRE:: (Rome-Washington parallelists like to cite the vast increase in the Roman bureaucracy in the wake of Diocletian and the attendant loss of efficiency.) The Roman state did evolve into an institution concentrated on protecting the emperor from usurpation and enriching an inner circle. But as compelling as this argument seems in detail, it is utterly undone by even a cursory comparison with the Eastern Empire, which lasted another thousand years with a bureaucracy even more inefficient and calcified than that in the West.

[The Lay Scientist] The Making of a "Great War", Pt. III - How the Germans Became Huns ...: Daily he appeals for the blessing of God upon the dreadful deeds which are staining the face of Western Europe - the ravaged villages, the hapless non-combatants hanged or shot, the women and children torn from their beds by cowards and made to walk before them under fire, all the infamies which have eternally disgraced German 'valour.' We are no longer dependent upon hearsay for these stories. Our own men are bringing them back from the front.

[AFL-CIO NOW BLOG] AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Boehner Is Wrong. Americans Don't Support ...: The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan discussions are all framed around ;the tactical problems of the wars, the differences among the Generals on how to wage war, etc. BUT NEVER ANY DISCUSSION AT ALL ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE ONLY CREDIBLE MOTIVATION FOR THESE WARS IS TO SECURE VAST PROFITS FOR CORPORATIONS INVOLVED IN THESE WARS.

[Comments for Jack's Newswatch] Jack's Newswatch » Blog Archive » Watt: F-35 fighter jets are the ...: Because they have always wanted our troops to fail in Afghanistan, just as they wanted the war in Iraq to fail, our MSM have been inserting new objectives of their own into the mission and insinuating that unless they are accomplished it is all for naught and a failure of our military, however, to allow such mindless lefty mission creep can only end in failure. Any success or failure of President Karzai has nothing at all to do with our military mission in Afghanistan, our troops did not put him up for the job, they did not vote for him, and they have not even been assigned to protect him.

[blog.Tribulationperiod.com] Daniel 11:40 Ships are Moving into Place for the Final War! « blog ...: Western and Eastern powers will have their ships remain in foxed positions in the seas surrounding the Middle East to provide a fixed nuclear umbrella for whoever they support, and to act as a threat to both Islam and Israel of what will happen if either one uses nuclear weapons. I do not believe all the nations of the world will fight until the Russian bear comes down from his habitant in the ”˜Land of Magog” to join the Islamic Antichrist Gog (The Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal) at the final battle of the great Tribulation Period, which is Armageddon.

[Steven Pressfield Blog] COIN in a Tribal Society: an interview with William S. “Mac ...: I also question just how much reliance he placed on tribal dynamics to maintain the “fighting spirit” of the population during the Iran-Iraq war or domestic tranquility during the intifada. I've hearkened back to Attila the Hun on other threads, and I'll do it again here.

[blog.Tribulationperiod.com] Islam Is Burning for the Coming of Their Messiah, the Great Mahdi ...: Having gone to military schools, lived among, worked with, and trained those of the Islamic faith as a much younger man, plus being familiar with prophecy since my youth, I have not only been waiting for many years for the true Messiah, Jesus Christ, but I have also been waiting for the arrival of the 12th Imam on the scene prior to the arrival of Jesus. I have long believed the 12th Imam Mahdi will be the 11th little horn of Daniel, and the beast of John’s Revelation.

[Well to the Left Of Attila The Hun (W.LOATH):Jack Huberman's Blog] Bites and pieces (of abominable Bushery): “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.” --Thomas Jefferson

[Jihad Watch] Spencer: Obama's Lockerbie Problem - Jihad Watch: Obama should also be asked, if the White House press corps were not so anxious to further the President's agenda, why this monster deserved any kind of compassion whatsoever, even if the reports about his terminal cancer had been true. Why should Abdelbeset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi, of all people, not die in prison for his pitiless crime of blowing an airplane out of the sky four days before Christmas and killing everyone on board?

[Media Matters for America - Altercation by Eric Alterman] Bateman on Hanson, Round 2: Poitiers, 732 A.D., and beyond | Media ...: Hanson's assertion may be because he does not know the difference between the Mongols and the Huns, but they are two completely different peoples, I assure you.) In the process he and his raiding army defeated every Western force in their path, using decidedly non-European weapons and techniques, and in 451 alone they sacked and burned the following European cities: Mainz, Cologne, Tournai, Amiens, Beauvais, (they apparently skipped Trier), Metz, Reims, Worms, and Strasbourg, before turning back. (Attila later fought a rearguard fight during his withdrawal at a place near Chalons, in France.) And that was just France.

[Clip On Load] BBC - Michael Palin's New Europe (2007) COMPLETE | Clip On Load: Episode 3: Wild East Michael travels from Transdniester, .'House of Terror', a National Park in Hortobagy, an area which Attila the Hun was reputed to have rampaged across, and ends up meeting a Leeds market trader who married the Ukranian prime minister's daughter.

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