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US Swagger Equals Foreign Policy Disaster

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wmd, Hans Blix, Obama, Iraq, World, Manouchehr Mottaki, Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Iran, P5+1, Saddam Hussein, Shiites, Iraq War, Iran Nuclear Enrichment, Taliban, Afghanistan, Us, Foreign Policy, Iaea, Politics News

If Iran offers to swap its low-enriched uranium for higher grade uranium, does the US have the right to dismiss it because it doesn't meet our conditions?

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Tony Blair: Would Have Invaded Iraq Without WMD

The Guardian | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq WMD, Saddam Hussein, Wmd, Tony Blair, War, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Iraq War, Iraq, Parliament, World News

Tony Blair has said he would have invaded Iraq even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction and would have found a way to justify the war to p...

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Iraq War Inquiry Begins In Britain: Tony Blair Will Be Witness

AP | PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

Read More: Uk Military, Uk, George Bush, White House, Michael Howard, Wmd, Britain, US Military, 10 Downing Street, mi5, George W. Bush, London, Barack Obama, Peter Ricketts, Foreign Policy, Gordon Brown, Iraq War, Sir John Chilcot, Downing Street, Nato, Baghdad, Iraq, Dossier, World News

LONDON — An inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war kicked off Tuesday with top government advisers testifying that some Bush administration...

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Why Weren't H1N1 Vacccines Available for Our Children Before School Started?

Sen. Bob Graham | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wmd, Health, Terrorism, Bioterrorism, H1N1 Vaccine, Bob Graham, H1n1, Vaccines, Pandemic Preparedness, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Thanksgiving, Politics News

Whether the threat is from naturally occurring disease or bioterrorism, the United States needs to be able to produce vaccines and other medicines faster and less expensively.

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Frank Rich: In Defense Of The Balloon Boy Dad

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Steinbeck, Hoax, Major Bowes Amateur Hour, Ed Wood, Balloon Boy, Obama, American Idol, Msnbc, Television, Cnbc, White House, Gary Condit, Grapes of Wrath, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Lear, Reality TV, Wmd, War of the Worlds, Bush, Chamber of Commerce, Books, Lou Dobbs, Richard Heene, Heene Family, They Shoot Horses Dont They, Cnn, Day of the Locust, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Wolf Blitzer, Norman Lear, Media News

For a country desperate for good news, the now-deflated "balloon boy" spectacle would seem to be the perfect tonic. As Wolf Blitzer of CNN summed up t...

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Congratulations, President Obama

Chris Campbell | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wmd, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Economy, Axis of Evil, George W. Bush, President Obama, Guantanamo, Nobel Peace Prize, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Gay Rights, Unemployment, Martin Luther King, Tax Cuts, Health Care Reform, Jimmy Carter, Climate Change, Health Care, Politics News

I find it maddening how quickly the wolves came out. Similar to any policy move that will actually benefit Americans and our standing in the world, the right-wing goes ballistic.

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Israel's Pines-Paz Ignores Facts on Iran

Taylor Marsh | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Iran, Wmd, Palestinians, Israel, Israel Gaza Operation, Barack Obama, Obama Israel, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News

After listening to Israeli Labor party MK Ophir Pines-Paz speak and answer questions, it seems clear that Pines-Paz does not understand Iran, though he's clearly not alone.

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Maddow Interviews Tom Ridge About Iraq Intelligence, Hurricane Katrina, Politicized Threat Levels (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wmd, Bush, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Iraq War Intelligence, Tom Ridge, Ridge, Homeland Security, The Test of Our Times, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Video, Rachel Maddow, Iraq, Wmds, Politics News

***UPDATE*** TPM makes the good point that Maddow got Ridge to contradict what was written on the jacket of his book. After repeatedly denying that p...

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Biden Locks Horns With Gates and Clinton Over the Monster That Won't Die

Russ Wellen | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reliable Replaceable Warheads, Nuclear War, Nuclear Warheads, Nuclear Weapons, Wmd, Obama Nuclear Weapons, Gates Nuclear Weapons, Reliable Replacement Warhead, Barack Obama Nuclear Proliferation, Politics News

In a couple of decades, with the momentum that disarmament is building, there may be not be enough nuclear warheads left by then to make it worth anyone's while to replace them.

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The Doctrine of "Sovereign Immunity" Presents a Grave Danger to Our Security

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Sovereign Immunity has its roots in old English law postulating that neither the sovereign nor the sovereign state can commit a legal wrong. It is an anachronism of another time and poses a great danger to our security.

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The Real Motive Behind the Cheney Family Torture Tour

Bob Cesca | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Talk Radio, Wmd, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Liz Cheney, Abu Zubaydah, George W. Bush, Iraq War, CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Cable News, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Why did the Bush administration authorize torture when other methods were more successful? And why is Dick Cheney so desperate to exonerate himself and to skew the debate with trivialities?

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The Internet Is Absolute Democracy -- Be Very Afraid!

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

Like Guttenberg's printing press, the Internet has created radically new opportunities and systems that have put us at the beginning of a seismic cultural shift and yet, something is terribly wrong.

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As 6th Anniversary Nears: Amazing Poll Reveals Most Iraqis Wish We Did Not Invade

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, Wmd, Invasion, Saddam, War, Politics News

A surprising new poll by leading media organizations, as the sixth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq queitly approaches this week, finds that d...

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The Journalist and the "Other" in Times of War

Sandy Tolan | Posted 02.24.2009 | World

What is the ethical responsibility of the journalist in telling the story of the Other? And what larger forces come to bear in shaping that story in the press?

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Is Leon Panetta the Right Choice for CIA Director?

Gloria Duffy | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Wmd, Leon Panetta Obama, Cia, Barack Obama Cabinet, Leon Panetta, Leon Panetta CIA, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News

It is perhaps not widely known that there has been a major change in the intelligence agencies' personnel since 9/11. Some 50% of intel community staffers have joined since 9/11.

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CIA: Parsing The Panetta Pick

William Bradley | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wmd, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cia, Afghanistan, Ronald Reagan, John Brennan, Dianne Feinstein, Iran, Ted Sorensen, Robert F. Kennedy, Allen Dulles, Tom Kuchel, Jimmy Carter, Intelligence, Jane Harman, Earl Warren, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Stephen Kappes, John Mccone, Bob Finch, Obama Transition, Max Rafferty, Iraq, Leon Panetta, Nancy Pelosi, Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta Obama, Feinstein Panetta, Obama Cabinet, Obama Appointees, Central Intelligence Agency Obama, Leon Panetta CIA, Cia Director, Jay Rockefeller, Obama Appointments, Pat Buchanan, Jerry Brown, Politics News

To say Panetta is a Clinton retread is to ignore his actual background. He comes out of a tradition which is almost forgotten today, that of the liberal Republican.

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8 Years and Still No Chemical Plant Security

Mike Papantonio | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Bomb, Environment, Wmd, Chemical, Mike Papantonio, 9/11, George W Bush, Attack, Terrorist, Terrorism, Chlorine Gas, Politics News

There has been an effort to minimize the importance of a new congressional report about the probabilities of another catastrophic domestic terrorist attack.

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Truly Regretful

Hon. John N. Hostettler | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, George Bush, Wmd, John Gibson, John Hostettler, Bush Iraq, Wmds, Iraq Intelligence, Politics News

While I concur with President Bush that his failure to properly assess the intelligence available to his administration was regretful, I do not wish the intelligence had been different.

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Night of the Long Pointing Fingers

Brian Ross | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mitt Romney, George Bush, Spin, Gop, Saxby Chambliss, George W. Bush, Republican, Bush Interviews, Religious Right, Reaganomics, Dick Cheney, Iraq WMD, Mike Huckabee, Republican Rewrite, Values, Republican Values, Karl Rove, Wmd, Political Pundits, Bush Exit, Gipper, Democrats, War in Iraq, Al Qaeda, Moral Values, The Blame Game, Bush Administration, Saddam Hussein, Rachel Maddow, Sarah Palin, Charles Gibson, Wolf Blitzer, Politics News

Republican politicians all seem to be trying their hand at historic re-creationism to transform both the history and future of the Republican party into their own image.

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Friday Talking Points [57] -- End Of Prohibition 75th Anniversary Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Weapons Inspectors, Marie Antoinette, Pardon, Autoworkers, Feinstein, Marijuana, Al Franken, Barney Frank, Medical Marijuana, Legacy, Difi, Prohibition, Jerrold Nadler, Bush Legacy, Northern Ireland, Midnight Regulations, Bailout, Norm Coleman, Midotw, Treasury, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Ireland, Health Care, Reid, Detroit, Cash Room, 2700 Year Old, Army Field Manual, Democrat, Congress, 21st Amendment, Right Wing, Visitors Center, Minnesota, Lie, Democrats, Santa, Barack Obama, Brian Williams, The Troubles, Liquor, Michael Medved, Constitution, Mddotw, Harry Reid, Recount, Hillary Clinton, Utah, Post-Partisan Depression, Capitol, Secretary of State, Senate, Grandstanding, Amendment, Gop, Senator, Obama, Democratic, Dianne Feinstein, Iraq, Anniversary, Drink, Bush, Republican, Paulson, Clinton, Charlie Gibson, Schedule I, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Schedule II, Wmd, House, Frank, Franken, Post-Partisan, 2008 Election, Tourists, Talk Radio, Chris Weigant, Smell, Prohibition Repeal, Stink, Torture, Medved, Politics News

Brian Williams, NBC's talking head extraordinaire, is probably a decent guy, a guy with whom you could sit down and have a beer. [More on the alcohol...

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WMD Attack Likely In Next Five Years, Panel Says

AP | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terroism Threats, Wmd, Nuclear Terrorism, Bioterrorism, Terrorism, War Wire, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan commission is asserting the country should expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or biological weapons sometime in t...

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Con Games: Calling Dr. Strangelove

Michael Conniff | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Wmd, Kubrick, Missile Defense, Star Wars, Movies, Dr. Strangelove, Entertainment News

Kids of my generation spent lifetimes in ridiculous bomb shelters wondering if the lead in a pencil could protect us from imminent destruction.

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Throwing Out the Bathwater, but Keeping the Baby

Emma Belcher | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wmd, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Weapons, National Security, Proliferation Security Initiative, Global Security, Security, Wmds, Foreign Policy, Politics News

Despite squandering widespread global sympathy and much-needed support for U.S. foreign policy since 9/11, the Bush administration's Proliferation Security Initiative has been a foreign-policy coup.

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10 Questions That Should Have Been Asked of Powell...

Richard Grenell | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Wmd, Iraq, Department of State, Richard Grenell, Powell, 2008 Election, Politics News

Why did you wait for the last 16 days of the general election to speak out if you were truly troubled about "your party's direction"?

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White House WMD Czar Post Still Empty

Newsweek | Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wmd, White House, George W. Bush, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, Politics News

The prospect that Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group might get its hand on a nuclear bomb is widely viewed as the scariest national security threa...

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