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openleft.com - 4/7/2009
Afghanistan: Obama's Vietnam?
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This is republished from the April 2 edition of Random Lengths News . Afghanistan: Obama's Vietnam? Less New Thinking and More Old Mistakes By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor On October 2, 2002, Barack Obama, then an Illinois State Senator, gave a speech opposing going to war in ...
Obama Risks Liberal Backlash on War Funding
online.wsj.com - 4/9/2009
Obama Risks Liberal Backlash on War Funding
— online.wsj.com — GREG HITT WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans to request new funding from Congress for the conflicts... in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he risks a backlash from antiwar lawmakers. Mr. Obama is expected to seek congressional approval of $75.5 billion ... (more) Obama Risks Liberal Backlash on War Funding

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tomdispatch.com - 4/5/2009
Tomgram: The A.I.G. of American Foreign Policy
— tomdispatch.com — The Great Afghan Bailout It's Time to Change Names, Switch Analogies By Tom Engelhardt Let's start by... stopping. It's time, as a start, to stop calling our expanding war in Central and South Asia "the Afghan War" or "the Afghanistan ... (more) Tomgram: The A.I.G. of American Foreign Policy

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csmonitor.com - 4/4/2009
Antiwar activists split over Obama's Afghanistan policy
— csmonitor.com — Lawmakers and others who were against the Iraq war generally support the president. But they worry about... another 'quagmire.' By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the April 4, 2009 edition Washington - The ... (more) Antiwar activists split over Obama's Afghanistan policy

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Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  ZP Heller: Why Dr. King Would Break the Silence on Afghanistan

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ZP Heller: Why Dr. King Would Break the Silence on Afghanistan
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... ," not just to raise parallels between Vietnam and Afghanistan, which are certainly growing with President Obama's mission creep calls for military escalation. Dr. King's speech also illustrates how fighting a Long War abroad grossly depletes our government's wherewithal to handle (and our nation's ability to focus on) a more critical socioeconomic crisis at home. ...

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