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[Just Above Sunset] A Crisis Is an Event You Say Is a Crisis: One thinks of the run-up to the Iraq war and the idea Saddam Hussein would soon have nuclear weapons he’d surely hand out to terrorists like candy, and really did have those little remote control airplanes that would spray our cities with chemical and biological agents and kill us all, and he could do that within forty-five minutes of deciding that everyone in Miami should die. We were told we had a crisis.
[tomdispatch] Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Lessons of Endless War: To appreciate the full extent of the military crisis into which the United States has been plunged requires understanding what the Iraq War and, to a lesser extent, the Afghan War have to teach. These two conflicts, along with the attacks of September 11, 2001, will form the centerpiece of George W.
[Impeachmentwatch] ImpeachmentWatch Day 67 (2008-08-15): Pelosi found herself under siege by people unhappy that she has not been motivated to try to throw President Bush out of office - even if only a few months remain before he leaves voluntarily.
[Media Matters for America - Altercation by Eric Alterman] One way out ...: Bacevich's latest piece represents an incisive analysis of the way lessons drawn will determine our future. This post is a warning against "lessons" of the Bush era that will lead to perpetual war -- from a man who knows his business.
[Hylirenestanley's Weblog] 31 Solemn SWJ Op-Ed Collocation: Presumptive Iraq Developments - Washington The time being newspaperyRight with information topping that the pace”toss” good understanding Iraq is achieving results, aliquot bigot opponents in reference to the war of words all one Sens.
[One Wing Left] It’s News To M_A - 8/15/08: And remember, while Georgia is on Russia’s border, and was at least possibly guilty of oppressing and attacking and perhaps even killing members of the Russian minority in two of its provinces (Georgia bombed the biggest town in the secessionist province of Ossetia, killing perhaps 1000 civilians, before Russia invaded), Iraq is half a world away from America and was minding its own business, not threatening Americans in any way. Russia, thus far, has at most killed a few thousand Georgians.
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[African American Opinion.com - Front Page] Obama Succeeding Brilliantly on Foreign Trip, and Compared to McCain: Well, just look at what John McCain's chief adviser has to say about that. John McCain's chief policy adviser is Douglas Holz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, heads the Greenberg Centre for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and here's what he says about the loss of Americans lives and the economic cost of the war:
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[Populist Party of America] According to this alternative view, echoing a similar complaint during the Vietnam era, the shortcomings of U.S. policy in Iraq and Afghanistan have little to do with the actual performance of American forces in the field and everything to do with the meddling of bumbling civilians back in Washington. In its simplest form, fault lies not with the troops themselves, nor with their commanders, but with the likes of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, who prevented the troops from doing their jobs.