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Random Thoughts for a Monday Morning

Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, Stimulus Plan, Goldman Sachs, Pat Buchanan, Saddam Hussein, Cia, Bailout, General Motors, Nancy Pelosi, Twitter, George W Bush, Chuck Schumer, Sarah Palin, Eric Cantor, Sonya Sotomayor, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

For sure, let's not focus on the eight years it took Bush to destroy the economy when we can blame Obama for not fixing this colossal mess in his first 5 months.

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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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Bush Library: Saddam Hussein's Personal Handgun To Be On Display

Guardian | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Saddam, George Bush, Saddam Hussein, Saddam's Pistol, Bush Library, Saddam's Gun, World News

George Bush is not a man who does irony. It's not in his personal vocabulary. Take the exquisite irony behind the story of Saddam Hussein's gun....

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Iraq: Saddam Grave Field Trips Now Banned

AP | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Saddam Hussein, Saddam, Saddam Hussein Grave, Iraqi Government, World News

BAGHDAD — Iraq's government has banned all organized visits to Saddam Hussein's grave in the village of Ouja, the dictator's birth place north o...

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Bush May Put Saddam's Gun In His Presidential Library

New York Times | Don Van Natta Jr. | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Saddam Hussein's Gun, Bush Library, Saddam Hussein, George Bush Presidential Library, Politics News

Many American presidents have kept prized possessions within reach during their White House years. Franklin D. Roosevelt cherished a 19th century ship...

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'W' Is for Withdrawal

Robert Koehler | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: National Sovereignty Day, Iraq War, Saddam Hussein, u.s. Troop Withdrawal, Nouri Al Maliki, World News

To pretend that Iraq is sovereign is just the latest insulting verbal Quonset hut the Washington military-political-media establishment has constructed for its own temporary shelter.

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Saddam And Bush Had Same Position On Geneva Convention:

Michaelmoore.com | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gulf War, Saddam Hussein Geneva Convention, Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein George Bush, George W. Bush Geneva Convention, Iraq Geneva Convention, Politics News

Saddam Hussein vs. George W. Bush on the Geneva Conventions FBI Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, March 13, 2004 [...] (S) Regarding limitations pla...

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US Troop Withdrawal From Iraq: Your Thoughts, Your Stories (POLL)

Huffington Post | Morgan Korn | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Saddam Hussein, u.s Pullout, u.s. Iraq War, Iraq War, Baghdad, u.s. Troop Withdrawal, U.S. Troops, Iraq, American Troops, Poll, Us Toop Withdrawal, War Wire, World News

**** Scroll down for a poll U.S. troops must withdraw from Iraqi cities and towns by June 30 as part of the Status of Forces Agreement that was ratif...

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How The FBI Broke Saddam - Without Using Torture

The Daily News | James Gordon Meek | Posted 07.27.2009 | World

Read More: Saddam Hussein, Hussein, Saddam Hussein FBI, Saddam Hussein Interrogate, Fbi, World News

Where were Iraq's WMD? How close was Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda, really? These were vital - but still unanswered - questions when the Iraqi despot wa...

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Obama's Doublespeak on Iran

Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Dennis Ross, Obama Iran, Suicide Bombers, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Us Israel Policy, US-Iran Relations, Iran, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Hilary Clinton, Dennis-Ross-Iran, Saddam Hussein, Zionism, National Security Council, Israel Iran, World News

In terms of actual policy measures, President Obama and his foreign policy team have not taken any steps to reverse or mitigate the hostile policies their predecessors put into effect against Iran.

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Iraqi Officials Start Referring To Maliki As "Master," Reminding Some Of Saddam Era

New York Times | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: House of Saddam, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki, Foreign Affairs, Maliki Master, Iraqi Government, Saddam, Master Maliki, Saddam Hussein, Nouri Al-Maliki, Maliki, Al-Maliki, Nuri Al-Maliki, Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, Advocacy, World News

Iraq's civilian leaders held a meeting on Thursday with the 300 top Iraqi military commanders from around the country to discuss the withdrawal of Ame...

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Incredible Photos Of Saddam's Palaces (PICTURES)

bldgblog.blogspot.com | Posted 06.30.2009 | World

Read More: Saddam's Palaces, Saddam Hussein, Pictures of Saddam's Palaces, Pictures, World News

These extraordinary images --published here for the first time show the imperial palaces of Saddam Hussein converted into temporary housing for the U....

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Carville and Rove Duke It Out at Radio City Music Hall

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media

Instead of getting Ali and Frazier, the crowd braced itself for a confrontation between Carville -- "The Ragin' Cajun," and Rove -- "The Boy Genius." There was drama and theatrics galore.

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24 and the Tortuous Politics of Torture

William Bradley | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

For Dick Cheney, if there's a 1% chance of a terror plot existing, it should be treated as a certainty. It's one thing when that sort of manipulation is used to entertain, and quite another when it's used to govern.

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Stop the Presses: Cheney's Re-emergence Is Finally Explained!

Sandy Goodman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Paranoid, 9'11 Attacks, Cia, Leon Panetta, Justice Department Memo, Congressional Record, George W. Bush, Abu Zubaydah, Gas Mask, Dick Cheney, " Al Qaeda, Misleading Congress, George H.W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Slam Dunk, Unnerved, "The Dark Side, Lying, Colin Powell, Overcompensated, Tom Ricks, Jeffrey Record, Biological Survival Suit, Valerie Plame, John Kuriakou, Bob Graham, Lawrence Wilkerson, Saddam Hussein, Jane Mayer, Air War College, George Tenet, Richard Clarke, Waterboarding, ABC News, Michael Scheuer, Politics News

Nancy Pelosi, this week, accused the CIA of lying. Who, journalists collectively ask, could ever accuse the CIA of lying? Who indeed? Almost anybody, it seems to me.

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What Does Obama's Afghan Command Change Mean?

William Bradley | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

The move from McKiernan to McChrystal also seems to signify an end to nation-building fantasies in Afghanistan.

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Saddam Hussein's Jail Letters Revealed

New York Daily News | James Gordon Meek | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

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Immediately after U.S. troops captured Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq's brutal ex-dictator turned into a crybaby over "beatings" by a "detention gang" ...

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Bible and Guns: Why Soldiers Who Proselytize Strengthen Our Enemies

Kamran Pasha | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Christianity, Islam, Military, Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Afghanistan, Evangelicals, Soliders Preaching Christianity, Soldiers in Iraq, World News

American Christians who supported the Iraq war as an End-Times battle to spread Christianity have ironically created an environment where Christianity is now disappearing from Iraq.

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The Iraq War in Perspective

Richard N. Haass | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Saddam Hussein, Second Iraq War, Regime Change, Iraq War, Bush Iraq, Iraq Withdrawal, Iraq, War in Iraq, Obama Iraq, World News

The second and still ongoing Iraq war was a war of choice, not necessity. The United States could well have accomplished a change in regime behavior and a change in regime threat without regime change.

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Get the Story: Why We Misunderstand Swine Flu, the Financial Crisis, and other Non-Narrative News

Jay Michaelson | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Darfur, Financial Crisis, Climate Change, Hurricane Katrina, Saddam Hussein, China Oil, Media Narratives, Swine Flu, Media News

Nameless trends, faceless economic forces -- these are the true villains in today's most pressing dramas, yet they are almost completely unrepresentable on screen.

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Even For Cheney, The Al Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Dan Coleman, Jack Cloonan, War on Terror, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, Fbi, Ibn Al-Shaykh Al-Libi, Maj. Paul Burney, Dick Cheney, Politics, Newsweek, New Yorker, Vice President Dick Cheney, Jose Padilla, Guantanamo Bay, David Rose, Colin Powell, Terrorism, Vanity Fair, Guantanamo Detainees, Arkan Al-Karim, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, Al Qaeda, Paul Wolfowitz, Iraq War, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Al Qaeda Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Cia, Jane Mayer, New York Times, Waterboarding, Iraq, Vice President Cheney, War Wire, World News

Coercive and illegal techniques were used widely at Gitmo in an attempt to secure information linking al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein.

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Abu Omar al-Baghdadi: Iraq Displays Images Of Suspected Insurgent Leader

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.29.2009 | World

Read More: Saddam Hussein Ouja, Ouja, Saddam Hussein, Saddam Hussein Birthday, Tigris River, War Wire, Iraq, Saddam Birthday, Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi, World News

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government presented the first image of the alleged leader of an al-Qaida front group Tuesday in a bid to prove the right su...

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Torture Used to Link Saddam with 9/11

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: September 11, Waterboarding, Saddam Hussein, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

Obama's intent to immunize those who violated our laws banning torture and cruel treatment violates the President's constitutional duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed."

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Weapons of Mass Influence - Undermining Terrorism - An Interview With Jerrold M. Post

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

Read More: President Obama, War on Terror, Weapons of Mass Influence, Osama Bin Laden, General David Petraeus, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Terrorist, Hamas, Dick Cheney, Psychological Operations, Overseas Contingency Operations, Psychological Operations and Counter Terrorism, Secretary Clinton, Argentina, State Terrorism, Terrorists, Human Bombs, Nashra Hassan, Jerrold M. Post, Muammar Qadaffi, Politics, Man Caused Disasters, Al-Qaeda, Ariel Merari, Bin Laden, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, Central Command, The Mind of a Terrorist, Saddam Hussein, The Junta, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Cen Comm, Psyop, World News

Dr. Post offers a step-by-step approach for political, military and ideological actions to induce behavioral, emotional and attitudinal changes to manage and minimize a "war" we just can't win.

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CNN Reporter Turned Princess Starts Jordanian J-School

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Upi, Sciences Po, French, Iraq, Arabic, Paris, English, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Amman, Un, Royal Film Commission, Lakhdar Brahimi, Jordan, Nic Robertson, Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, European Union, Jane Arraf, Facebook, Princess Rym Ali, New York, Iraq War, Le Monde, Cnn, Saddam Hussein, Cairo, Jordan Media Institute, King Abdallah II, Rym Brahimi, Francoise Chippaux, Baghdad, Queen Rania, Algeria, Italian, Saachi, Sorbonne, Zain, Amman-Jordan, Media News

Princess Rym's advice to young journalists today is: "Be persistent. Don't take no for an answer. Remember why you're doing this. It's not about you, it's about the story."

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