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[OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion] If you consider how mainstream media and journalism have botched so many opportunities to pierce the veil of high-power deception, you'll not be surprised that a prestigious prize for journalism shows a lack of interest in Iraq, war, soldiers and civilians dying. After all, how many newspapers, or congressmen for that matter, risked dissent from the W administration during the wake of the hyped-up, politically exploited, hysterical 9/11 reaction?

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[The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy] In the Case of Iraq, a War Story Might Best Take Place on U.S. ...: If you consider how mainstream media and journalism have botched so many opportunities to pierce the veil of high-power deception, you’ll not be surprised that a prestigious prize for journalism shows a lack of interest in Iraq, war, soldiers and civilians dying. After all, how many newspapers, or congressmen for that matter, risked dissent from the W administration during the wake of the hyped-up, politically exploited, hysterical 9/11 reaction?

[The Common Ills] Iraq snapshot « The Common Ills: As Maddow explained in her introduction, he was "chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005." As such, he played a key role in the way the United States went to war in Iraq. In particular, Wilkerson was in charge of the preparation of Powell's UN presentation in February 2003--the presentation which sealed elite opinion in favor of war. 

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[The Common Ills] Iraq snapshot « The Common Ills: And that's not to say that there aren't commonalities in some large metropolitan areas, like in the national capitol region or San Antonio, we can't find shared platforms where we can retain common skills, where we can share the opportunities in the greater Washington area where we have 36 or 37 different health care facilities across the three services from Pennsylvania down to Quantico and as far west as Fort Belvoir. We have plenty of opportunities to share those platforms for caring for about a half-million beneficiaries.

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[SWJ Blog] 29 April SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): Metz concludes that the United States has a long-standing, continuing problem “developing sound assumptions when the opponent operates within a different psychological and cultural framework.” He sees a pattern of misjudgments about Saddam and Iraq based on Western cultural and historical bias and a pervasive faith in the superiority of America’s worldview and institutions. This myopia contributed to America being caught off guard by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then underestimating his longevity, and finally miscalculating the likelihood of a stable and democratic Iraq after he was toppled.

[OUT-SIDE-THE-BOX- | Blog Talk Radio Feed] Will Israel Attack Iran?: As New York Times op-ed columnist Roger Cohen reminded readers recently, theres nothing new about Israeli predictions that Iranian madmen or rather, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of a rather extreme new government, put it recently, a messianic apocalyptic cult would soon have nuclear weapons in their hands. The charges and predictions of the imminent arrival of the Iranian bomb go back well into the 1990s, and yet, despite Irans growing nuclear enrichment program, we still dont know what the true predilections of its leaders are on the basic issue of weaponization.

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