nytimes.com - 2/16/2009
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Nearly 5,000 American servicemen and women have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. Yet the photographic record documents only a tiny fraction of those who have given their lives for their country. There’s a propaganda component to waging every war, but the Bush administration went to ...
nytimes.com - 2/17/2009
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nytimes.com —
WASHINGTON -- President Obama said Tuesday that he
would send an additional 17,000 American troops to Afghanistan...
this spring and summer, putting his stamp firmly on a war that he has long complained is going in the wrong direction. The order will add ...
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Putting Stamp on Afghan War, Obama Will Send 17,000 Troops
whitehouse.gov - 2/18/2009
nsnetwork.org - 2/19/2009
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PRINCIPLES FOR AN AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY As the Obama
Administration begins a 60-day review of its Afghanistan strategy,...
a diverse group of progressive experts in development, counter-terrorism, regional politics and US politics came together to ...
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Principles for an Afghanistan Strategy
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The Return
Mudville Gazette —
... The Sunday New York Times editorial courageously demands the right for their reporters to get pictures of flag-drapped caskets of U.S. Service members arriving at Dover Air Force Base: ...
Jon Soltz: Time To Reverse 'Dover' Policy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Some in Congress have been working on this issue for a while. Congressman Walter Jones, a Republican who VoteVets.org has supported, has legislation that would reverse the policy, while keeping concerns about privacy in mind. With 'bi-partisanship' all the buzz in DC, you couldn't find someone who is more of a true conservative than Walter Jones. President Obama should work with the Congressman on his legislation, so that any reversal of the ban could be bipartisan and move through Congress, instead of by executive decision. ...
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