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Freeze the Settlement Freeze

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: James Baker, Israeli Settlements, Clinton, Palestinian, Abbas, President Abbas, Fatah, Obama, Jewish, World News
Daoud Kuttab

Israelis understand that the only reality in politics is the reality on the ground. So long as Israeli soldiers control the occupied territories, the idea of a settlement freeze will not take root. I

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Obama Should Remember James Baker When In Cairo: Roger Cohen

nytimes.com | ROGER COHEN | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Mideast Trip, Cairo, Egypt, Roger Cohen, Obama Egypt, Obama Cairo, Roger Cohen Obama, James Baker, World News

NEW YORK -- I hope President Obama has been reading James Baker in preparation for his speech Thursday to the Muslim world. It was in the time of the ...

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James Baker Backs Reinstating The Draft

US News And World Report | Paul Bedard | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Charlie Rangel, Congress's lone champion of reinstating the military draft, can count on another Korean War-era vet for support: Republican James...

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Obama's Rugged Week

William Bradley | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Economic Crisis, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin, Tim Geithner, Hamid Karzai, Aig, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Iraq, Paul Krugman, Leon Panetta, Wall Street, Hillary Clinton, Dmitri Medvedev, Henry Kissinger, Gary Hart, Chuck Hagel, James Baker, Politics News
William Bradley

Is Geithner's plan another bailout to Wall Street? Or is it needed pragmatism to work with a deeply troubled, farcically entitled though still necessary private financial sector?

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Obama Meeting James Baker And Warren Christopher, Chairmen of War Powers Commission

Huffington Post | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

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Barack Obama will meet tomorrow with Warren Christopher and James Baker, the chairmen of the War Powers Commission, according to a release sent out by...

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My Vote Today: Barack Obama and Joe Biden

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Brent Scowcroft, James Baker, John McCain, Richard Armitage, Joe Biden, Colin Powell, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Steve Clemons

I want a fresh run at getting America back on track to restoring health and solvency to its national security and economic portfolios. To my regret, McCain and Palin are not up to these challenges.

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Landslide Needed

Norman MacAfee | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Orator, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, New Deal, Andrew Jackson, Writer, Community Organizer, Civil War, Barack Obama, Diebold, Filibuster-Proof Senate, Fascism, James Baker, Legislator, Joseph Stiglitz, Richard Nixon, Katherine Harris, Abraham Lincoln, Constitutional Scholar, Lyndon Johnson, World War II, Green Energy, Great Depression, Politics News
Norman MacAfee

We need a landslide. If 80 percent of the population think the country is on the wrong track, why can't we have an election where 80 percent vote for Barack and 20 for McCain?

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James Baker Punches George Bush in the Face with New War Proposal

Jackson Williams | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Powers Act, Warren Christopher, James Baker, Iraq, National War Powers Commission, Scott Mcclellan, George W. Bush, George Bush, Ann Richards, Texas Rangers Baseball Team, Politics News
Jackson Williams

James Baker has joined his nemesis in recommending a stunning new piece of federal legislation -- a law designed to rein in future presidents who want to go to war half-cocked.

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Former Secretaries Of State: Scrap War Powers Resolution

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, James Baker, Congress Iraq War, War Powers, War Powers Resolution, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The next time the president goes to war, Congress should be consulted and vote on whether it agrees, according to a bipartisan stud...

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Bush Calls Mugabe "Undemocratic"

Michael Carmichael | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Justin Frank, Jeremy Rosner, John Bolton, Dick Morris, Carlos Maria Aznar, National Endowment for Democracy, James Carville, Mark Penn, John Roberts, James Baker, Felipe Calderon, Anders Rasmussen, Katherine Harris, Silvio Berlusconi, Viktor Yuschenko, Aleksandr Yukashenko, Angela Merkel, Alvaro Uribe, Mark Mellman, Robert Mugabe, Jeb Bush, Usaid, Rob Allyn, Happiness, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

As a former advisor to Morgan Tsvangirai, I want to offer observations on the recent attempt by President Bush to appear less despotic than the reviled president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe.

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Al Gore Was Right

Jane Smiley | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Al Gore, Supreme Court, James Baker, Recount, HBO's Recount, Gore vs. Bush, Politics News
Jane Smiley

HBO's Recount shows that if the bullies had not gotten their way, then the Republicans would have obstructed the operation of Gore's administration and the nation would have been destroyed from the inside.

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James Baker: Talking To An Enemy Is Not Appeasement

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

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A clip of former Secretary of State James Baker has been making the rounds recently, as a result of the current 'appeasement' debate between John McCa...

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Second Baker-Hamilton Waiting On Baker

Politico | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Study Group, James Baker, Baker-Hamilton, Lee Hamilton, Baker Hamilton Study Group, War in Iraq, Politics News

The Iraq Study Group might get a second go-round. Legislation pushed by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), which is now law, directs the U.S. Institute of Peace...

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