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[Jeff Merkley for Senate] Eugene Register-Guard: "Smith takes risk raising Iraq issue": But Moore, a professor at Pacific University in Forest Grove, said Smith is also taking a risk by bringing up his record on Iraq to voters. By emphasizing only his coming out as an opponent of the war, Smith is giving election opponent Jeff Merkley and the Democrats an opening to attack the senator for his history of support for the war.
[World Prout Assembly] What a McCain Victory Would Mean: McCain buys into the neoconservative vision of expending U.S. treasure and troops to kill as many Muslim militants as possible. McCain's tough talk - for instance, his joking about "bomb, bomb Iran" and his vow to pursue Osama bin Laden "to the gates of hell" - is indistinguishable from Bush's "bring 'em on," "smoke 'em out," "dead or alive" rhetoric.
[Novakeo.com] Georgia: The Score: It is the reason Bush II mentioned Hungary during the Olympic Games and why Rice flew to Georgia claiming “this is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten a neighbor, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and get away with it.” It is the reason the US mainstream press considers Russian military maneuvers similar to the Nazi takeover of the Sudetenland, refers to Russia’s leader as another Hitler and Stalin, and publishes political cartoons showing a Russian bear standing over a mountainous heap of corpses. When Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential hopeful, told an audience, “My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War,” he was speaking about the finalization of our nation-fulfilled prophecy.
[Just Foreign Policy News] Just Foreign Policy News, August 27, 2008: Maliki and his advisors never really accepted the Sunni Awakening, and they remain convinced that the movement is simply a way for Sunni insurgents to buy time to restart a campaign of violence or to infiltrate the state’s security apparatus. In 2007, with Iraq’s government weak and its military not yet ready to take the lead in operations, the Maliki government acquiesced to the U.S.-led initiative and grudgingly agreed to integrate 20% of the Sons of Iraq into the Iraqi security forces.
[portland indymedia - newswire] Joe Biden is militarized 'new world order' old hand, why he's VP ...: Bush's Speech to Congress, September 11, 1991, discusses his invasion of Iraq under the first United Nations 'authorization' for pre-emptive war: "...what is at stake, is more [pauses, looks dismissive of this idea] than one small country. [Smiles.] It is a big idea.
[Tribe.net: Intelligent Political Discussion] Re: Bush is an evil scumbag liar liar liar liar.: If Saddam is replaced by a new client regime, it seems likely that these concessions will be superseded, although there are reports that the US has offered France, Russia and China a share of post-war Iraqi oil, as an inducement to get their support in the Security Council. <5> Last September former CIA Chief Woolsey threatened in the Washington Post (9/15/02) that the price for participation by France and Russia in the post-war Iraq oil bonanza should be their support for "regime change." <6> It would not take much of such menacing talk from official sources to turn the Bush campaign against Iraq into a campaign against Europe (see Postscript).
[Buffalobills.com Message Board] How is Obama crossing over the typical Dem lines and into more ...: Resurgent Al Qaeda in Afghanistan: The decision to invade Iraq diverted resources from the war in Afghanistan, making it harder for us to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden and others involved in the 9/11 attacks. Nearly seven years later, the Taliban has reemerged in southern Afghanistan while Al Qaeda has used the space provided by the Iraq war to regroup, train and plan for another attack on the United States.
[Russia: Other Points of View] Lobbying for War: Joe Biden, a prominent voice of support was the influential Republican Senator Richard Lugar, who initiated a bill in the U.S. Senate in favor of Georgia and Ukraine joining NATO, arguing that it "will enable Europe, the United States, and NATO to expand the zone of freedom and security." The bill provided $10 million in assistance in the fiscal year of 2008 for Georgia's membership preparations. On March 6, a similar bill was passed by the House of Representatives.
[Authorcynthia27's Weblog] Great Speech by Ron Paul: It will incite even more anti-American sentiment and expose us to even greater dangers. It could prove to be an unmitigated disaster.
[FOX Forum] How the Reagan Doctrine Once Again Defeated the Russians: Determined to replicate the triumphant experience of the original Manhattan Project, and of World War Two overall, and not the murkier results of Iraq, the 44th President did what Franklin D. Roosevelt did: He called in the top leaders .
[SWJ Blog] 26 August SWJ Roundup: Much of Iraq's dramatic security progress can be traced to a series of decisions made by Sunni tribal leaders in late 2006 to turn against Al Qaeda in Iraq and cooperate with American forces in Anbar province. These leaders, outraged by Al Qaeda's brutality against their people, approached the US military with an offer it couldn't refuse: Enter into an alliance with the tribes, and they would turn their weapons against Al Qaeda rather than American troops.
[The Bravo Blog] Medvedev announces CHECK to the West by Recognizing South Ossetia ...: Now I know many people, with short memories, who will point out that Russia is doing nothing different then what the US did in ousting the Taliban in Afghanistan or Sadam Hussein in Iraq. First lets look at the reasons and the outcomes. For Afghanistan it was to strike back at the organization that orchestrated the September 11th attacks and had safe haven and support in a country run by radical fundamentalists who were oppressing and killing their citizens for normal human activities (girls going to school, women shopping alone, men watching sports or movies). While we are still there engaged with militant religious fanatics, we are not expanding the US borders, creating a new country, or intimidating the local government into surrender. Second with Iraq, well, there were numerous UN sanction violations, weapons violations, and WMD that was unaccounted for, yes chemical weapons are WMD and they were missing and after the fall of the government were recovered in the desert. While the case of nuclear devices were overstated and wrongly pursued, we again did not expand our national borders, create a new country, or intimidate the local government into surrender. That is what Russia is exactly doing in Georgia. When we invaded both of these countries everyone in the UN and our alleys knew we were doing it, even the enemy knew it. When we invaded these countries we went heavy and hard and then we worked to stabilize the region, place a legitimate government elected and represented by its citizens in place, and have stuck around as long as we were asked to and until the local governments can take over for and protect themselves. Russia is not doing this. They invaded with no warning, pressed on past the boundaries of the disputed area, slaughtered the national military, intimidated the local government and have now created 2 new countries with the expectation to absorbed them into its borders shortly thereafter.
[Aris Deslis Weblog] THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND US FOREIGN POLICY: On September 20, a group of prominent neoconservatives and their allies published another open letter, telling the President that “even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the [9/11] attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.”163 The letter also reminded Bush that, “Israel has been and remains America’s staunchest ally against international terrorism.” In the October 1 issue of the Weekly Standard, Robert Kagan and William Kristol called for regime change in Iraq immediately after the Taliban was defeated. That same day, Charles Krauthammer argued in the Washington Post that after we were done with Afghanistan, Syria should be next, followed by Iran and Iraq.
[1read's Weblog] THE WORLD today!: OPEC said no decision will be made until the next meeting in Vienna on September 9, however Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, is completing development of its giant Khursaniyah field soon, increasing its output capacity by up to 500.000 barrels a day and is willing to bring production and supplies from actually 9.450.000 barrels a day, already 300.00 barrels a day higher since last month, to a total of 9,7 Million barrels a day in July, or more if the market requires it! The kingdom, complying with a huge expansion program in its oil industry to increase its spare oil production capacity to up to 12,5 Million barrels a day by the end of 2009, said at a meeting with important producers and consumers on Sunday in Jeddah, it is capable to boost this level another 2,5 Million barrels a day to 15 Million barrels a day if needed. Saudi Arabia is concerned today’s record prices might damp economic growth and lead to a lower oil demand, improving countries their energy efficiency, developing alternative sources of energy, including nuclear power. Saud Arabia wants oil price stability in the global market, a fair oil price not hurting producers neither consumers, and is worried about harmony between buyers and sellers, asking consumer countries to take measures to control and stop speculations in the futures markets to bring oil prices down from the actual unreasonable high levels.
[AM 1090's Weblog] Democracy NOW! Headlines: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has pulled his party out of the ruling coalition, bringing the Pakistani government to the brink of collapse just a week after the resignation of President General Pervez Musharraf. Sharif said his main coalition partner, the party of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, which leads the coalition, had repeatedly broken promises on resolving a judicial dispute and on who should be the next president.
[NPR Blogs: Blog of the Nation] It Isn't JUST The Economy: We'll hear a lot in the next two weeks about pocketbook issues, the finances of candidates and whether they can relate to the average Joe, and of course that "it's the economy stupid." But with US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Russian troops in Georgia, China's economy exploding, Iran's nuclear ambitions unclear, middle east peace in question, and the global war on terror ongoing, issues of national security and foreign policy can't be overlooked.
[SWJ Blog] 23 August SWJ Roundup: the US military's Central Command, in overall charge of the conflicts in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He sat down for an hour and a half this week with Newsweek's Rod Nordland, at the general's office in the American Embassy, in Saddam's old Republican Palace...
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