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[Foreign Policy] Left Behind in Iraq - By Kirk W. Johnson | Foreign Policy: The awful reality to which Johnson points, of the many thousands of Iraqis who have allied themselves with American interests, exists exclusively because the Bush regime saw no, or virtually no, reason to protect those Iraqis who chose in effect to turn their backs on their society to help and guide America in its effort to install a new regime. They started receiving death threats within weeks of making those choices in 2003, and the US promply presented a callous don't-care response.

[Newspaper Rock] Newspaper Rock: US ignores Indian sites at risk: The Bush Administration's Department of the Interior is demonstrating "deliberate disregard" in its management of the national parks by failing in recent years to seek at least $87.5 million and as much as $170 million from Congress to offset costs to the National Park Service (NPS) for natural disasters, mandated employee pay increases and homeland security burdens, according to the two groups--the nonpartisan Coalition of Concerned National Park Service Retirees and the nonprofit Campaign to Protect America's Lands (CPAL)--that made public on March 17, 2004, internal NPS memos urging park superintendents to make major park cuts and then to mislead the public and the news media about the cutbacks.

[Life & Times Blog] Life & Times Blog - Blog Archive - Voting on the Iraq War: It's high time that the Bush Administration quit ignoring the overwhelming public opposition to this war. While similar measures have passed in scores of cities across the country, California is the first state in the nation to pursue an advisory vote on Iraq.

[Your Free Online Store] Inflation 101 | Your Free Online Store: So the war on Iraq was part of the reason why we got into this mess, and now we have no choice but to spend ourselves out of this mess and hope that the stimulus kicks in sooner rather than later.

[Emptywheel] That Iraq Withdrawal We Elected in 2008? | Emptywheel: The Iraqi government continues to take steps to resolve debts and settle claims arising from the actions of the previous regime. Before the end of the year, my Administration will review the Iraqi government’s progress on resolving these outstanding debts and claims, as well as other relevant circumstances, in order to determine whether the prohibitions contained in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, as amended by Executive Order 13364 of November 29, 2004, on any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process with respect to the Development Fund for Iraq, the accounts, assets, and property held by the Central Bank of Iraq, and Iraqi petroleum-related products, should continue in effect beyond December 31, 2010, which are in addition to the sovereign immunity ordinarily provided to Iraq as a sovereign nation under otherwise applicable law.

[Politics] Kentucky primary reveals GOP rift on Afghan war | Washington Examiner: function gatherResponse(commentObject) { name = null; website = null; title = null; comment = null; email = null; rating = null; ratingType = null; commentType = null; flagged = false; isAuthor = false; error = null; status = null; Clickability.Comment.name = null; Clickability.Comment.website = null; Clickability.Comment.title = null; Clickability.Comment.comment = null; Clickability.Comment.email = null; Clickability.Comment.rating = null; Clickability.Comment.ratingType = null; Clickability.Comment.commentType = null; Clickability.Comment.flagged = false; Clickability.Comment.isAuthor = false; Clickability.Comment.error = null; Clickability.Comment.status = null; Clickability.Comment.level = 0; Clickability.Comment.parentID = 0; Clickability.Comment.threadID = 0; Clickability.Comment.id = 0; Clickability.Comment.extID = null;

[Matthew Yglesias] Matthew Yglesias » Afghanistan Finally Overtakes Iraq in Terms of ...: Matt seems to be laying the groundwork for the partisan meme that should there be a successful terrorist attack from Af-Pak after the Dems pull out, Af-Pak was messed up because the Republicans prioritized Iraq. Ain’t our fault even though we pulled out before the job was done will be the excuse.

[blogfrommiddleeast.com] Obama and the myth of the public opinion excuse:  That's the whole point of this post:  to contest the claim that Obama's bad civil liberties record is due to public opinion, and that improvements in public opinion would mean that he'd adhere to his campaign pledges in this area:  see, in particular, points 1, 4, 5 and 6, which detail and substantiate exactly why the point Matt says he intended to convey is, in my view, so unpersuasive.

[All Tibet] Since the war in Iraq was wrong, should we let the people of Tibet ...: for entering Iraq was initially, ‘War On Terror’, in the wake of September 11th, although the scapegoat/crack pot that masterminded the twin towers was according to Bush and intelligence sources, Osama Bin Laden, Bush broadcast to the entire world that he was focusing on the oil rich country of Iraq, exposing planned terror attacks and preventing any possibility of further damaging America’s already wounded pride. According to Bush-junior, the long reigning ‘Dictator/tyranical’

[HOUSE OF PAINE blog] HOUSE OF PAINE blog » Splitting the Sky vs. George W. Bush: George Bush hasn't suffered at all over the monumental suffering, death, and horror he has caused”¦no matter how many American soldiers have died on a given day in Iraq (averaging well over two every day), he is always seen with a big .afforded to credibly accused war criminals emanating from Anglo-America - which the Harper-minority government and their equivalents around the world have supported - by “setting an example” and sentencing STS to spend two-more years of .

[U of M Secular Student Alliance] U of M Secular Student Alliance » Blog Archive » An open letter to ...: I don’t think the invasion of Iraq was merely some sort of opportunistic ploy to draw attention from Bush’s economic policy or else an opportunity to kill Muslims. If Bush had wanted to draw attention away, he could have done it much easier than starting a costly and unpopular war;

[NewsReal Blog] I Thought the War in Iraq Was a Victory for Iran? | NewsReal Blog: Iran is also Iraq's 2nd largest trade partner, an important supplier of electricity, plus there is a huge exchange in religious pilgrims and students. Tehran's goal isn't to control Iraq anyway, it's to have influence with its politicians and economy and it has achieved both of those.

[News Dissector Blog] News Dissector Blog » Blog Archive » Banksters Win Again: GOP ...: The 2010 American Retirement Survey commissioned by Scottrade also showed that non-mortgage debt is impacting the savings of every generation.”¨”¨Gen Y (born 1983-91), Gen X (born 1967-82), boomers (born 1945-66) and seniors (born before 1945) saved less due to this type of debt last year and expect that budgeting trend to continue this year.”¨”¨Researchers found that Gen X and boomers have the most debt, with 50 percent of Gen Xers spending more than 20 percent of household income toward mortgages.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials in Newspapers ...: Sending text messages every few minutes and spending more than seven hours a day using technology is just too much. Parents would do well to initiate some changes to ensure they are not contributing to creation of a generation of socially and emotionally inept children.

[News Seekr] Obama Myths & Realities: Iraq is no longer front page news, but the fighting continues, at least 50000 troops will be stationed there indefinitely, Guantanamo remains open, and US entanglement in Afghanistan and Pakistan is deeper than ever. an economic meltdown .

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