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Today in The Nation: Obama and Iraq
The Nation: Top Stories — ... some wanted to muddy the differences. The mud advocates seem to have prevailed.) And Obama hasn't made his mandate stronger by adopting hawkish views on other, non-Iraq related issues: he supports a bigger military; he supports an expansion of NATO to include Ukraine and Georgia; he supports more troops for Afghanistan; he has called for cross-border raids into Pakistan to go after Al Qaeda officials; and, of course, he has hewed closely to orthodoxy in support of Israel. In his most recent speech , yesterday in Sarasota, Florida, Obama didn't mention at all his plan to end ...

Election Race Diary Roundup (11/4 – Change is in the Air)
Daily Kos — ... times before. The American story has never been about things coming easy - it's been about rising to the moment when the moment was hard. It's about rejecting fear and division for unity of purpose. That's how we've overcome war and depression. That's how we've won great struggles for civil rights and women's rights and workers' rights. And that's how we'll emerge from this crisis stronger and more prosperous than we were before - as one nation; as one people. -Senator Barack Obama, - October 30, 2008 Have you voted yet? ...