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Afghanistan and Lessons Not Learned

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charlie Wilson's War, World War II, Vietnam War, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Politics News

Apparently, we Democrats, like the Republicans, believe that in order to get reelected we must keep the war going. More troops? Afghanistan is not worth the life of one more soldier.

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Death by Drone: A Policy That Gets Results?

Kit Gallant | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan, Hearts and Minds, Assassination, Targeted Killlings, Insurgency Afghanistn, Taliban, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, World News

Counter-insurgency experts and military officials have an oft-noted tendency to focus excessively, to obsess, really, on killing or capturing a single pivotal individual.

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Right-Wing Terror Tactics: Here We Go Again!

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Right-Wing Ideologues, Terror, President Obama, Trauma, Palin, Genocide, 9/11, Holocaust, Health-Care Reform, Iraq, Mccain, Hitler, Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Death Panels, Politics News

Right-wing extremists and corporate propagandists are once again trying to incite the dread of collective retraumatization in their attempt to obstruct President Obama's plan for health-care reform.

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Yemen: A Powder Keg Ready to Explode

Jamal Dajani | Posted 09.07.2009 | World

Read More: Hussein Al-Houthi, Yemen, Middle East, Yemen-Houthi, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, Velvet Revolution, Sa'ada, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Ali Abdullah Saleh, World News

The Obama administration may be ignoring what could potentially be the hottest spot in the Middle East, the country which is the ancestral birthplace of Osama bin Laden: Yemen.

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A Multiple Choice Test for the State Department

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Iran, Obama Afghanistan, US State Department, Pakistan, Civilian Casualties, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Diplomacy, Taliban, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Space Exploration, Aarp, Obama Iraq, North Korea, Politics News

In light of the reports that July was the deadliest month for U.S. and allied forces, in Afghanistan, I've come up with a multiple choice exam for the State Department.

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Al Qaeda Offers Obama Conditional Truce If Troops Leave Muslim World

AP | MAAMOUN YOUSSEF | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Affairs, George W. Bush, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Obama Administration, Obama Al Qaeda, Al Queda, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Al Qaida, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Advocacy, Qaeda Obama Offer, Al-Qaeda Number 2 Offers Truce, Al Qaeda's Conditions for Truce, Al Queda Truce Offer, Al Qaeda Truce, Al Qaida Offers Obama a Truce, Al Qaeda Conditional Truce, Conditional Truce Offer He Said Had Been Made by Al Qaeda Leader Osama Bin Laden., World News

CAIRO — Osama bin-Laden's deputy said in a video message released Monday that the al-Qaida leader's offers of a truce with the U.S. and Europe r...

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God, Guns, and American Pick-Up Trucks

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Second Amendment, Cnn, Youth Radio, Youthradio, Mark Muller, Osama Bin Laden, Guns, AK 47, Politics News

Their actual slogan is "God, Guns, Guts, and American Pick-Up Trucks." Now if that isn't the most offensive, hypercritical, and out right demented slogan I have ever seen, then I am blind.

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Saad Bin Laden, Osama's Son, Killed By American Missile in Pakistan: US Officials

NPR | By Mary Louise Kelly | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

Read More: Osama Bin Laden Son, US Missile Kills Bin Laden Son, Saad Bin Laden, Bin Laden Son, Osama Bin Laden, Saad Bin Laden Iran, Saad Bin Laden Killed, Bin Laden Son Killed, Bin Laden's Son Killed, World News

U.S. officials believe Saad bin Laden a son of Osama bin Laden has been killed by an American missile in Pakistan. ...

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General McChrystal and His "Retail War"

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan Heroin Trade, Afghanistan, Nato, Stanley McChrystal, Heroin-Addicts, Taliban, Heroin, Dick Cheney, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, World News

If we're going to label the Taliban in the Helmand valley "terrorists," then we might as well label the government that works with them to collect taxes from poppy farmers insurgents.

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Predictable Chaos as Guantanamo Trials Resume

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, David Hicks, President Obama, 9/11, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, World News, Politics News, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Lt. Rich Federico, Col. Morris Davis, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Bay, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, World, Human Rights First, Walid Bin Attash, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, Mohammed Kamin, Salim Hamdan, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Capt. John Murphy, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Federal Court, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Politics News

With no visible progress this was another dismal outing for the Commissions, and another warning for the Obama administration that any kind of revival of the wretched trial system will remain fraught with insoluble problems.

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The Democrats' Selective Amnesia on Assassination: Clinton Did It and Obama Does It Too

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

The "secret" CIA assassination program that Dick Cheney allegedly concealed from Congress sounds a lot like the assassination policy implemented by President Bill Clinton.

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Mr. Fitzgerald, In Your Threat to Sue for Libel, Please, Either Put Up or Shut Up

Peter Lance | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jack Cloonan, Triple Cross, Ali Mohamed, Andy McCarthy, Patrick Fitzgerald, Fatwa, Ali Amiriki, 9/11, Fbi, Day of Terror Trial, 9/11 Commission, Al Qaeda, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

Patrick Fitzgerald, the most intimidating Federal prosecutor in America, sent me a letter threatening to sue for libel if a book I wrote, critical of his anti-terrorism track record, was published.

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Osama Bin Laden's Son: Dad Gassed MY Dogs

NY Daily News | By James Gordon Meek | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: Bin Laden's Son, Terrorism, Omar Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden, Bin Ladin's Son, World News

OSAMA BIN LADEN'S son Omar first realized the depth of his father's evil when his beloved dogs were taken away and gassed in a chemical warfare experi...

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More Racist Online Musings From Young Republican Candidate Revealed

The Daily Beast | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Racism, Young Republicans, Rush Limbaugh, Audra Shay, Sarah Palin, President Obama, Joe the Plumber, Racism, Gop, Obama, Facebook, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

Thirty-eight year old Audra Shay's campaign to become the next chairman of the Young Republicans went from obscure to infamous over the past week, aft...

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History Has Not Yet Judged Bush

James Denselow | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Legacy, Robert McNamara, Iraq, War in Iraq, George W. Bush, Kurds, George Piro, General David Petraeus, Fbi, Paul Bremer, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Saddam Hussein, Robert Gates, Ryan Crocker, Politics News

Certainly Bush's rewriting of his Iraq legacy will be helped by his decision to reverse his earlier policies, abandoning the idealism of the top-down reinvention of Iraq, for reality-based pragmatism.

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17,000 Troops? What's Really Behind the Thinking?

Paul Fitzgerald | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Taliban, Al Queda, Osama Bin Laden, World News

Whether it realizes it or not, Washington has placed itself in a fight for its life in Afghanistan, just the way the Soviets did.

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Jon Stewart Blasts Glenn Beck & Michael Scheuer For Promoting Slaughter Of Americans (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Jon Stewart, Fearmongering, Video, Osama Bin Laden, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Terrorism, Daily Show, Michael Scheuer Glenn Beck, Michael Scheuer, Glenn Beck Michael Scheuer, Beck Scheuer, Glen Beck, Jon Stewart Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart Michael Scheuer, Comedy News

Stewart spoke from the perspective of someone who lived through a terrorist attack and had little patience for fools who just casually suggest that maybe we'd all benefit from another one.

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Osama Visited America For 2 Weeks

New Yorker | Steve Coll | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: United States, Osama Bin Laden US Visit, Osama Bin Laden, World News

The question of whether Osama bin Laden has ever visited the United States, a subject on which I have expended an unhealthy amount of energy in the co...

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Glenn Beck Guest: Osama Bin Laden Should Attack Again (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Fearmongering, Paranoia, Terrorism, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Osama Bin Laden, Idiots, Politics News

As many of you know, the modern and civilized life that we lead in America, as sensible people, has long clashed terribly with the panoply of phantasm...

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New Tape: Osama Bin Laden or Sacha Baron Cohen?

Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted 07.30.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Michael Jackson, Obama, Tape, Sacha Baron Cohen, Nicaraguan Coup, Osama Bin Laden, Comedy News

"There has never been a fake bin Laden tape," a U.S. counterterrorism official announced, but they are investigating as the voice sounds suspiciously like that of Sacha Baron Cohen.

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Are We Any Closer To Capturing Bin Laden?

The Guardian | Julian Borger and Declan Walsh | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Osama Bin Laden Search, Capturing Bin Laden, Search for Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden, Bin Laden, World News

He is still alive. That is the one thing that can be said about Osama bin Laden these days with any degree of certainty. At least, he was still alive ...

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Osama bin Laden Is a Dead Man

Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistani Army, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Swat Valley, Taliban, Prediction, South Waziristan, Osama Bin Laden, World News

Al Qaeda is running out of money and out of options. They have lost the good will of their hosts and might be in some serious trouble. Osama bin Laden will be killed or captured within the year.

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Sarah Palin's Letter to David Letterman

Matt Littman | Posted 07.17.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Regis Philbin, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Osama Bin Laden, Barack Obama, Kelly Ripa, Sarah Palin, David Letterman, Comedy News

Dear Dave, I take to heart your belated apology for your disgusting, inappropriate joke about my daughter. It took a long time for you to man up an...

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CIA: Bin Laden Still Believed To Be In Pakistan

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

Read More: Cia, Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden Pakistan, World News

WASHINGTON — The CIA believes Osama bin Laden is still in Pakistan, and the spy agency is hoping to close in on him as that country's military c...

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Gadhafi In Italy Likens U.S. To Osama Bin Laden

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Libya, Libyan Leader, Moammar Gadhafi, Gadhfi Anti-Us Speech, Qadaffi and Terrorism, Muammar Qadaffi, Osama Bin Laden, World News

ROME — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi faced angry protests and tough questions on human rights Thursday as he gave a speech at a Rome university ...

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