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CHINATION REPORT©[CHINATION REPORT©] During an NPR interview on March 3rd 2008, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, co-author of The Three Trillion Dollar War explains that Americans will spend decades treating the physical and psychological wounds of Iraq veterans ”” and when the economic consequences of the invasion are taken into account, the costs are staggering. - NPR.org

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NPR Blogs: Vox Politicshttp://www.npr.org/blogs/politics/2008/08/dont_rule_out_a_dark_horse.html [NPR Blogs: Vox Politics] Don't Rule Out a Dark Horse: In the tradition of wild VP speculation, I've consulted my colleagues and humbly submit a few last-minute Dark Horses, some familiar, some resurrected, some....

Just Above Sunsethttp://justabovesunset.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/deciding-what-matters/ [Just Above Sunset] Deciding What Matters: About 20 current and former Republicans make up the group’s leadership committee, including Douglas Kmiec, a Republican who served in the Justice Department under President Ronald Reagan and was a supporter of Mitt Romney during the Republican primary, and Dorothy Danforth Burlin, a Washington lawyer who is the daughter of former U.S. Senator John Danforth, another moderate Republican.

Tribe.net: Intelligent Political Discussionhttp://smartpolitics.tribe.net/thread/13e1a188-01fe-4b85-8583-eaa97aded2ba#5eb2000d-164a-4e13-82be-e52ad0cecaa7 [Tribe.net: Intelligent Political Discussion] Re: Bush is an evil scumbag liar liar liar liar.: Excerpt: Many of the controversial interrogation tactics used against terror suspects in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo were modeled on techniques the U.S. feared that the Communists themselves might use against captured American troops during the Cold War, according to a little-noticed, highly classified Pentagon report released several days ago. Originally developed as training for elite special forces at Fort Bragg under the "Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape" program, otherwise known as SERE, tactics such as sleep deprivation, isolation, sexual humiliation, nudity, exposure to extremes of cold and stress positions were part of a carefully monitored survival training program for personnel at risk of capture by Soviet or Chinese forces, all carried out under the supervision of military psychologists.

In the NEWS...http://bonniekaryn.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/june-16-2008-its-the-economy-again-stupid-as-both-candidates-tout-their-plans/ [In the NEWS...] June 16, 2008: It’s the economy again, stupid as both candidates ...: Over the next four years, we are going to face many difficult challenges ”” including bringing our troops home from Iraq, fixing our economy, and solving the climate crisis. Barack Obama is clearly the candidate best able to solve these problems and bring change to America.

Windows Live spacehttp://2dorightassociations.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!87B69B9A77329929!148.entry [Windows Live space] We have to come together to save our country: Meanwhile, the war in Iraq continues, and now the war in Afghanistan appears to be getting worse. And by the way, our weather sure is getting strange, isn't it?

BARF - Bay Area Riders Forum - Kitchen Sinkhttp://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=249765 [BARF - Bay Area Riders Forum - Kitchen Sink] McCain and the Economy: “On Wednesday, he told a London think tank that the war caused the credit crunch and the housing crisis that are propelling the current economic downturn. Testifying before the Senate’s Joint Economic Committee the following day, he said our involvement in Iraq has long been “weakening the American economy” and “a day of reckoning” has finally arrived.” [Mother Jones, 2/29/08]

The Sparks's Ashes[The Sparks's Ashes] Steve earl: A study by Nobel Prize economist Joseph Stiglitz concludes that the cost of the war in Iraq could be at least $3 trillion. The economic consequences of our enormous expenditure in Iraq are beginning to make themselves known as we fall .

dave's Bloghttp://my.journaltimes.com/post/racinenativemn/blog/fox_news_investigation_this_is_the_first_in_a_threepart_seri.html [dave's Blog] Fox News Investigation -This is the first in a three-part series ...: Non-truth: In a sworn deposition to the General Accounting Office, Clinton was asked if she had any involvement in the decision to fire the staffers: “No, I did not,” she replied. She said she did not know the “origin of the decision” to fire the staffers, “had no role in the decision to terminate the employees” and “did not direct that any action be taken by anyone” regarding the matter.

Idea Driven Marketing.comhttp://www.ideadrivenmarketing.com/?p=63 [Idea Driven Marketing.com] The Big Frame Up: Making Your Message Stick: But, when he finally did speak of the problem, he framed it as “climate change.” By framing his position this way, Bush made it sound more like a naturally occurring problem (the climate has always changed over the history of time), rather than something created by, or at least profoundly accelerated by, man himself.

BlargenBlog[BlargenBlog] Yay China!: Telling Joe Lieberman that the reason we should trust his decision to go to war with Iraq, the reason we’ll succeed, is because of his instincts rather than because of actionable intelligence or a reviewed case by experts and advisors. This is typical of the arrogance that often accompanies authoritarian policy: we believe we’re right no matter what.

Richard's spacehttp://cid-a617a31ab533a42c.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A617A31AB533A42C!834.entry [Richard's space] [Norton AntiSpam] DN!: Exclusive: The $3 Trillion War: Joseph ...: EXCLUSIVE - The Three Trillion Dollar War: Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Economist Linda Bilmes on the True Cost of the US Invasion and Occupation of Iraq * One week after President Bush rejected charges the war in Iraq has .

MARSHALL INSTITUTE Bloghttp://blog.ucsd.edu/marshallinstitute/2007/09/05/american-political-plays-and-culture-post-911/ [MARSHALL INSTITUTE Blog] American Political Plays and Culture Post 9/11: What was curiously missing in Weber’s essay in linking the present artistic activity with theatre life during the Vietnam/Watergate period: the plethora of influential ideological theatre groups that helped define that epoch and the splendid unfolding known as “off off Broadway”. Julian Beck’s The Living Theatre, Joe Chaikin’s Open Theatre, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Richard Schneckner’s Performance Garage, Peter Schuman’s Bread and Puppet Theater, Squat Theatre, Luis Valdez’s Teatro Campesino, Ludlam’s Theatre of the Ridiculous, Lee Breuer’s Mabou Mines, Andre Gregory’s Manhattan Project, Richard Foreman’s Ontological/Hysterical Theatre, the Talking Band, and the Wooster Group.

"That's Saul, folks!"Michigan Republican Party Blog["That's Saul, folks!"Michigan Republican Party Blog] Articles of Interest 2-7-07: Yet that is what now seems to have come from a once-promising bipartisan effort to finally have the debate about the Iraq war that Americans have been denied for four years. The Democrats’ ultimate goal was to express the Senate’s .

RightNation.US Community Blog Listhttp://www.rightnation.us/forums/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=22&showentry=2035 [RightNation.US Community Blog List] A Patriot's Journal - You Might be a Liberal: You would have supported the war in Iraq, if Clinton or Gore was President You are against censorship unless it's censoring race, Christianity, Conservatism, Western culture, Rush Limbaugh, or Ann Coulter .

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