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[Associated Press News - Salon.com] US military deaths in Iraq war at 4228 - Salon.com: The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,404 military personnel died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

[The TRUTH Project] Everyone we fight in Iraq is now “al-Qaida” « The T.R.U.T.H. Project: The US and Iraqi governments have vastly overstated the number of foreign fighters in Iraq, and most of them don’t come from Saudi Arabia, according to a new report from the Washington-based Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS). According to a piece in The Guardian, this means the US and Iraq “feed the myth”

[Whatever] A Quick Note to the Outgoing President « Whatever: Also, more military people have been killed in the ILLEGAL war in Iraq than the number of civilians killed on 9/11, and that’s even if you just go by the ‘official’ count.

[Saturn Smith's Open Salon Blog] Eric Holder: Please look back. - Saturn Smith - Open Salon: at Counterpunch www.counterpunch.org/loo06162008.html): if you allow these criminals to openly flout the law and to commit monstrous crimes against humanity (people like Gordon O think these aren't crimes since they were committed allegedly to protect AMERICAN lives, so ergo, torture et al are somehow less blameworthy) then it doesn't matter how good a citizen Obama is, or any of the next five presidents are, the precedent has been allowed to stand that a president can do whatever he or she wants, including defying Congress and breaching the rule of law, shredding the Constitution and carrying out torture. And I haven't even mentioned poorly known provisions such as the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 that gives the president the power on his own or her own say so to declare a "public emergency"

[Cafe Talk Aggregator] Carol Gee's Blog | Talking Points Memo | Saying Hello To 2009: All know that outside Kirkuk is one of Iraq's largestoil fields. Also at stake is the larger, constitutional question ofwhether Iraq should have a powerful central government, favored byTurkomans and Arabs, or highly autonomous regions, as the Kurds wish.And finally, there are outside influences: Turkey backs the Turkomansand, with Iran, opposes greater Kurdish power.

[Associated Press News - Salon.com] Thai elections strengthen government - Salon.com: The Democrat Party came to power after months of political chaos caused by protesters opposed to Thaksin's political machine. Their sometimes violent demonstrations culminated in an eight-day blockade of Bangkok's airports in November that made it difficult for Thaksin's allies to govern with any credibility.

[Palashbiswaskl's Weblog] We Shall Overcome!Time for Third World including South Asia to ...: It’s going to make a big, big difference which way it goes”¦ I think the promise with Senator Obama is that we return to an idea known as ”˜the common good’”¦” Toni Morrison is a black woman, who, despite Christopher Hitchens’s dazzling deconstruction of race and colour, has no doubt at all about her blackness, the history of that blackness and the significance of Barack Obama’s bid for the presidency of the United States of America to that history. Asked what she was going to do on election night, this grand old woman of American letters who has won every distinction that a writer can hope for, said: “I have three choices: I can go to some friends;

[Jeff's NewsCloud Journal] Jeff’s NewsCloud Journal » Blog Archive » Obama takes presidential ...: a NewsCloud community blog · Sign in | Sign up · Jeff’s NewsCloud Journal · Home · Obama takes presidential oath again after stumble. January 21st, 2009 | by jeff | | Post to NewsCloud » · story photo. Craig, the White House lawyer, ...

[Informed Comment] Informed Comment: The Neoconservative Style & Weblog Awards: As to those who are new to Totten and "seeing X told me all I needed to know," I'll tell them something they need to know and clearly don't -- Totten has traveled extensively in the region, and provides lengthy reports from his trips to places like Lebanon, Iraq (including extensive embedded time), Kosovo, and Georgia (the country). How about you inform yourself about what he's actually reported and said (fact and opinion) rather than discredit him based on some single point of opinion told to you by somebody else?

[Jeff's NewsCloud Journal] Jeff’s NewsCloud Journal » Blog Archive » Cheney In Wheelchair For ...: Vice President Dick Cheney pulled a muscle in his back while moving boxes and will be in a wheelchair for Tuesday’s inauguration ceremony.

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