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[NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Maddow Guests Provide Welcome Clarity on Iraq, Pre-War ...: Example two -- former CIA weapons inspector Charles Duelfer, who succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Survey Group, on the Maddow show two nights later, appearing in same segment as Bob Windrem, author of a Daily Beast story alleging that "Cheney's office" ordered waterboarding of a captured Iraqi official to show links between Saddam and al Qaeda --

[Antiwar.com Original] Smarter Iran Policy Begins With New Attitude by William deB. Mills ...: The ultra-nationalist component in Iran may prove to be much harder to deal with, but the first step is to recognize that this component doesn’t equate to “Iran.” Whatever the strength of ultra-nationalism in Iran, it derives most recently from Iran’s desperate defense against Saddam Hussein (and his former U.S., Russian, Arab, and European allies) and is strengthened by every insult, every application of pressure, every demand for “preconditions before negotiations,”

The Dawn Patrol: In an audacious raid Friday, al-Qaeda terrorists managed to slip past White House security and seize President Obama's teleprompter. Their demands were released in a grainy video, which apparently showed the president's teleprompter, bound and blindfolded but unharmed, while heavily armed masked men stood behind it, quoting from the Qur'an.

[Jews Against the War] Jews Against the War » Blog Archive » Coalition of Jewish Leaders ...: (CA) The day before Shavuot, a Jewish holiday marking the day the Torah was delivered at Mount Sinai, “Jews Against the War” (www.jewsagainstthewar.org) released a petition signed by over 1000 Jews, including members of every major religious denomination - from Orthodox to Conservative to Reform to Reconstructionist to Renewal - urging an end to the war in Iraq. The signatures were gathered during the weeks between Passover and Shavuot, and include the support of over 250 rabbis, educators and Jewish professionals.

[Bizlevity] For All Who Have Served ”” Thank You : Bizlevity - Business News ...: I will strive always to excel in every art and artifice of war. I know that I will be called upon to perform tasks in isolation, far from familiar faces and voices.

[View from the Right] A remarkable conversation with President Bush about Iraq, 2007: But instead of taking the hard-fought opportunity, our message to Iran and Syria was "Shut up or you are next." I felt it was both arrogant and monumentally stupid. Not surprisingly, Syria and Iran sent their intelligence agents into Iraq to make U.S. troops stumble and stay bogged down in Mesopotamia.

[The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy] Overcoming the Poverty of Ambition: Barack Obama and the Bully ...: I suppose President Kennedy should have known that we could not and should not have planned to go to the Moon because, well, the fuckin' thing is 250,000 miles away and its way out in outer space and who the hell would ever think we could go to the Moon, especially someone as important and as powerful as the President of the United States.

[Comments for Blog Them Out of the Stone Age] Blog Them Out of the Stone Age » The Islamic Way of War: sure,it’d be nice to make everybody free and teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, but what makes the Iraqis so special? If I had my druthers I’d rather bring real democracy to, say, Honduras, where I’ve grown to know and care about the people and who are a hell of a lot closer to us, have a culture more accessible to us, and whose liberation from the oligarchy masking as democracy would make it an attractive place to live and so reduce the immigration pressure on our southern borders.

[The Thunder Run] The Thunder Run: From the Front: 05/27/2009: I have always thought of myself as a positive person but as more time passes during this deployment I realize that may not be necessarily true. Maybe I've always considered myself a positive person because I've always been in situations that .

[CNET News.com] Is it too soon for a realistic Iraq War game? | The Digital Home ...: So it is OK to consult with US Marines (whose members regularly commit attrocities) but not with members of the resistance movement of the country they illegally invaded. When you talk about them killing "men who helped the US" they are killing people who are collaborating with the enemy, which is a capital offense in war time in many countries.

[Baghdad Bureau] The Caucus: Gen. Odierno's Facebook - Baghdad Bureau Blog ...: We all are distressed by the high suicide rate among the U.S military, especially by the tragic incident of the soldier who shot and killed a number of his colleagues at a clinic in Baghdad. Now I have a suggestion for General Odierno and other High ranking U.S Generals: To send American soldiers while in their first stages of military training on short ‘”pre-combat’

[Iran News] Smarter Iran Policy Begins With New Attitude | Iran News: The ultra-nationalist component in Iran may prove to be much harder to deal with, but the first step is to recognize that this component doesn’t equate to “Iran.” Whatever the strength of ultra-nationalism in Iran, it derives most recently from Iran’s desperate defense against Saddam Hussein (and his former U.S., Russian, Arab, and European allies) and is strengthened by every insult, every application of pressure, every demand for “preconditions before negotiations,” and every insistence that Iran obey rules to which it never agreed and which no other country is required to obey. Those Iranians desiring pragmatic economic development or the strengthening of civil liberties have no ground to stand on in the domestic Iranian political debate as long as Iran is besieged;

[TimesFreePress.com Local and Region News] Chattanooga Times Free Press | Leaving war memories behind: Staff Photo by Allison Kwesell Maisoon Al-Qayem and her youngest daughter, Zahraa Hassan, 20, talk about Zahraa's brother, Laith Hassan, who was kidnapped and killed in Iraq. The family paid $30,000 ransom in 2006 in attempt to get their son back.

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