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Confessions of an Anti-Iraq War Democrat: Memories of a Purple Finger

Lanny Davis | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Surge, Troop Withdrawal, Saddam Hussein, Success of the Surge, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Iraq Elections, Iraq, Purple Finger, Nouri Al Maliki, Politics News

Many anti-war Democrats now see a moral obligation (after all the carnage and destruction wrought by our military intervention) not just to pick up and leave Iraq without looking over our shoulders.

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Dalai Lama: Bush Has Lack of Understanding of Reality

Rob Kall | Posted 07.18.2008 | Living

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In his speech Thursday in Philadelphia, the Dalai Lama explained that to reach a point where nations would outwardly disarm, people must first inwardly disarm.

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McCain's Cigarette Gaffe: A Cold Blood Commander-In-Chief?

Omid Memarian | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, The U.S., Foriegn Policy, John McCain, Guantanamo, Al-Qaeda, Gaffe, Soviet Union, Mccain. Cigarette, Anti-Americanism, Iran, M.E.K, Gross Joke, Saddam Hussein, Symore Hersh, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Unlike most of veterans who respect human lives due to their profound and extraordinary experiences at wars, McCain's joking about people's lives is a disastrous trait for a president.

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Patriotism is not Synonymous with the Republican Party: It's Time They Stopped Using the "P" Word

Michael Russnow | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Military, Saddam Hussein, Michael Russnow, Unpatriotic, Terrorists, Patriotism, Armed Services, "P" Word, Lemmings, Politics News

Whatever you think about the war in Iraq or how we got there, suggesting that those who are in opposition are less than patriotic is irrational and undemocratic.

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Head Of Saddam's Tribe Blown Up By Car Bomb

Reuters | Nadheer al-Samarrai | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

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The head of Saddam Hussein's tribe was killed by a bomb planted on his vehicle north of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. The blast killed Sheikh Ali ...

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Irrational Leaders and Nuclear Arms: A Response

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Security First, Nuclear Deterrence, Irrational Leaders, Saddam Hussein, Saddam Hussein Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Weapons, Iran Nuclear Program, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News

Allowing authoritarian regimes to be subject only to internal challenges in exchange for deproliferation and ending the support for terrorism is less bitter than it seems.

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McClellan: Our Minister of Misinformation

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media

Read More: George Bush, White House, War on Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Wmd, Scott Mcclellan, What Happened, Deception, Muhammad Sai'd Al Sahhaf, Middle East, Baghdad Bob, Media News

Scott McClellan reminds me of Saddam Hussein's Minister of Information, Muhammad Sai'd Al Sahhaf... kind of.

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That vs. Who: The Politics of Linguistics

Carol Maric | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

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I Object! Or is that Subject? This was my first reaction to the common linguistic objectification of sentient beings which has become pervasive in America.

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Legitimate Questions of Judgment, Experience

Joseph C. Wilson | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics

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Obama's close relationship with Wright, his inattention to his responsibilities in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his careless approach to Iraq all suggest that he would benefit from more experience.

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The Pet Iraq

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Saddam Hussein, Ryan Crocker, Timetables, Surge, Senate Hearings, Hillary Clinton Petraeus, David Petraeus, Iraq War, Armed Services Committee, Iraq, Muqtada Al-Sadr, Gen. David Petraeus, Iraq Timetable, McCain Petraeus, 236.Com, Politics News

Just give us our symbols and our slogans and we'll be happy. Meanwhile, it won't matter what's really going on over there. What matters is what we're told is going on over there.

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An Iraqi Translator Gets Prosecuted While Blackwater Gets Another Year in Iraq

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics

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Despite the fact that contractors now outnumber US soldiers in Iraq, there have to date only been two prosecutions of private personnel.

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HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson's Resignation -- A Window Into Bush Administration's Corruption, Indifference, and Incompetence

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.02.2008 | Home

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The involuntary resignation of HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson this week provides an opportunity to underscore and distinguish the three major failings of the Bush administration.

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Letter From A Soldier: Answers You Won't Want To Hear

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

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McCain claims that he is a break from the flawed strategy of the Bush administration. But the Iraq miasma is not the result of a flawed strategy. It is the result of a flawed concept to begin with.

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Easter in Iraq: The War Goes On

Jim Wallis | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics

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Repentance means a fundamental change in direction and that is what we must now call for in U.S. foreign policy.

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Inside Saddam's Files: Little Evidence Of Plot To Kill George H.W. Bush

Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | Posted 03.22.2008 | Politics

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President Bush said lots of things about Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the Iraq War. But few of his charges grabbed more attention than an unscripte...

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Fast and Loose With the Facts

Spencer Ackerman | Posted 03.20.2008 | Media

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It seems as though, despite Jeffrey Goldberg's ability to escape accountability for his journalistic malpractice, he can't help smirking to attentive readers.

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Guess What? It's the Fifth Anniversary of Lethal Hypocrisy

James Heffernan | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

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Five years ago today, just before dawn broke over Baghdad, U.S. forces launched the Iraq War by dropping four bunker-buster bombs and forty Tomahawk missiles on a palace compound.

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Repentance Means a New Direction

Jim Wallis | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

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Rather than celebrating the decision to go to war, we lament the suffering and violence in Iraq, and repent of our failure to fully live the teaching of Jesus to be peacemakers.

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Pentagon Definitively Debunks Hillary Clinton's Pre-War Claim of Saddam/Al Qaeda Link

Tim Dickinson | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics

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The National Intelligence Estimate at the time cast serious doubts on any Al Qaeda/Iraq link. But Clinton has acknowledged she did not read the NIE.

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Iraqis Still Ask If US Invasion Was Worth It

Reuters | Dean Yates | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics

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Five years after U.S. and British forces swept into Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein, many Iraqis are asking if the violence and upheaval that turned t...

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Dear Barack: Some Words Of Advice

Steve Almond | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics

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You're going to need a new approach, one that deprives McCain and his proxies of the fallacious claim that we're at war.

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Iraq Approves Execution Of "Chemical Ali"

NY Times | Richard Oppel | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics

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Iraqi leaders say they have found a way to execute Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali and one of Saddam Hussein's most notorious henchmen. Mr...

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Britain Releases Iraq WMD Dossier Draft

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics

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LONDON — An early version of a British dossier of prewar intelligence on Iraq did not include a key claim about weapons of mass destruction that...

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Ownership Dispute of Saddam's Yacht

AP | ELAINE GANLEY | Posted 02.16.2008 | Business

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PARIS — For sale: A palatial pleasure yacht with swimming pools, opulent salons and, should the winds of war blow, a rocket launcher and mini-su...

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60 Minutes Report: Saddam Let The World Think He Had WMD

60 Minutes | Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics

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For a man who drew America into two wars and countless military engagements, we never knew what Saddam Hussein was thinking. But you are going to hear...

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