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 [talkleft] Pentagon Questions Captain's Statement to Obama Campaign: If anything, I honestly think Hillary might have a stronger stance against McCain on Iraq because she can say that they saw eye-to-eye in the beginning, but that she understands the realities on the ground and that things are not going well and that we need to withdraw and let things fall into Iraq's hands.  I think her arguing with McCain that he refuses to see the reality and hold the Iraqi Government accountable would play out A LOT better than Obama's "nana-nana-boo-boo, I was against it the whole time!" shtick.

 [Wired: Danger Room] Austin Debate, Deboned (Updated): Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. And as a consequence, they didn't have enough ammunition, they didn't have enough humvees.

 [T171207count500334's Weblog] OBAMA HITS PAKISTAN, AND HILLARY: Information sharing with state and local governments must be a two-way street, because we never know where the two pieces of the puzzle are that might fit together - the tip from Afghanistan, and the cop who sees something suspicious on Michigan Avenue. I will increase funding to help train police to gather information and connect it to the intelligence they receive from the federal government.

 [surftalk - Political Graffiti] Iraq Reconciliation Reports Continue: Iraqi lawmakers also recently green-lighted a de-Baathification law that bars some of Saddam Hussein’s former henchmen from public service, but welcomes back many more dismissed functionaries who have clean hands. A new pension law will grant retirement incomes to older ex-Baathists.

[The Thinklings] Something's Happening Here (or What I Saw at the Obama Rally): The things he said about ending the war in Iraq got, by far, the biggest ovations of the night. He also misrepresented McCain as saying that we would have "100 more years of warfare" in Iraq.

 [Media Mouse: News Briefs] National and International Headlines for February 19: Bush: "His commitment to America is beyond any doubt, but most importantly he has the right values and experience to guide our nation forward at this historic moment and so I am very proud to endorse John McCain for the presidency of the United States of America. Few men walking among us have sacrificed so much in the cause of human freedom, and I am happy to help this remarkable patriot carry our party's banner forward."

[Member Posts] International Politics – Democracy in Pakistan and Independent ...: But, you know, in response to some of what Samantha was saying, in the 1990s, the worst humanitarian crises in the world, certainly Rwanda and other African nations, certainly in Europe, but Iraq—I mean, where is the label of genocide for the US policy toward Iraq? It was Bill Clinton who initiated the longest sustained bombing campaign since Vietnam against Iraq under the guise of humanitarian intervention in the north and south of that country, the sanctions killing hundreds of thousands of people.

[The Strata-Sphere] Obama Is An Obidiot: Which is why many of our best Commanders in Chief have had very little military experience - it left them with no desire to play 2nd Lieutenant instead of being CinC. Clausewitz had something to say about that, too, IIRC….

 [mydd] The Denouement of the MSM's Crush: While there may be no doubt that our military has not been entirely prepared in every aspect for major wars in two separate theaters, Obama has blown up an anecdotal aside into a talking point for the major, if not singular, pillar of his campaign platform, disdain for the Iraq War. What he managed to do in this instance, however, is confuse and conflate our activities in Afghanistan with Iraq and prove his own opportunistic ambition in seizing on important issues without putting them in a proper context.

[Rapid Eye Reality] Super Tuesday Live Blog: I was on the fence, could vote for him with a quite-clear conscience if only he wasn’t for letting or keeping every illegal immigrant in, but I like most of the other stuff he is for, and if his weakness is his lack of experience, well, it very well could be his strength in that he would be less likely to be beholden to the political machine and good-’ol boy network that has ruined the world for the last decade. Enjoy.

 [Danger Room] Austin Debate, Deboned (Updated, Again): He related some anecdotal stories (the first 10th guys(reserve force for the Rangers) came out of that istan to the North of Afghanistan). The FOBS along the Pak'i border were always collocated with US SOF teams and small Alliance/Afghan fighters units using available vehicles (Toyota common).

 [THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS] Texas Smackdown: Obama stated that it was “indisputable that there has been a decrease in violence.” Yet he still had the audacity of…well, just plain audacity…to then state that he was right for opposing the war from the beginning, and therefore the best person to take on John McCain.

[The Strata-Sphere] The Ever Changing Obama Platoon Lie: And the media is doing all it can to help save Obama the Obidiot for telling such a tall (and now confirmed false) tale. In fact you can tell the media knew exactly were the old up-armor story came from because they quoted the same December 2003 story I did in my second post - which proves the problems with the timeline.

 [Northroppotter's Weblog] You Can Firewall Fairy Aaron Burr The Way He's Dropping Hamiltons: Romney said that war could only have been avoided if Saddam “had opened up his country to I.A.E.A. inspectors, and theyвЂâ™d come in and theyвЂâ™d found that there were no weapons of mass destruction.” He dismissed this as an “unreasonable hypothetical.”

[MotherPie] Ramble: Well, You Can't in the Snow But You Can in A Blog Post...: The latest figure I saw was Bush seeking $70 billion more from Congress to fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2009 fiscal year. Administration requests for war spending could bring the total cost of Iraq's war above $611 billion.

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