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David Patraeus

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Where Did McCain Get What He's Got "in the Bank" with the Press?

Jay Rosen | Posted March 27, 2008 | Off The Bus

First came John McCain's strange assertion that Al Qaeda in Iraq was being trained and supported by the Iranians.

Next he backed off the claim after Joe Lieberman whispered something in his ear. "I'm sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not Al Qaeda," he said.

Then on Meet...

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Are Civilian Deaths in Iraq Rising or Not?

Lionel Beehner | Posted October 29, 2007 | Politics

Read More: 60 Minutes, Civilian Deaths, Collateral Damage, David Patraeus, Iraqi Civilian Deaths, Iraqi Death Toll, War Death Toll

The counting of Iraqi civilian casualties is a hotly politicized topic in Washington these days. Depending on one's vantage point, the numbers are either sloping upward or downward. Generals in Iraq say the numbers of deaths are down. Anti-war Democrats say they are up, or at least, aren't budging much...

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Ken Burns' The War

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted October 4, 2007 | Entertainment

Read More: David Patraeus, Dwight Eisenhower, Edward R. Murrow, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George W. Bush, Katie Couric, Ken Burns

A passing vignette in The War is Ken Burns' portrayal of how millions of Americans reacted to the news of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death. The President then provided a sense of unity and Americans viewed FDR and the office itself as an integral part of our national identity. I...

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Newspaper Editorials Not Convinced by Petraeus

Editor & Publisher | September 11, 2007 10:31 AM

Read More: David Patraeus, Newspaper Editorials

So what does the press have to say, on the day after the landmark testimony of Gen. David Patraeus (along with Ambassador Ryan Crocker) on Capitol Hill, with another day to come on Tuesday? We will present the editorial reaction...

Bin Laden's Latest Video

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted September 10, 2007 | Politics

Read More: David Patraeus, Maureen Dowd, Osama Bin Laden

The occupation of Iraq is the greatest recruiting tool al Qaeda has going. Al Qaeda today has metastasized into a thousand independent groups. In recent years bin Laden has been articulating an ideology that combines fundamentalist Islam with a kind of Leninist vanguard theory. The secular language of revolution has...

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