openleft.com - 12/9/2008
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An increasing number of questions, and diversity of opinions, are emerging on sending more troops to Afghanistan . Given how murky the situation is over there, this can only be taken as a good sign:
And yet, over the last few weeks, the progressive community that once pleaded for greater ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 12/8/2008
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While you were watching football this morning and
afternoon President-elect Barack Obama had a busy day, though...
part of it was pre-recorded on Saturday. We have three news videos below, plus the transcript of Obama's Sunday morning interview on ...
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Terror, recession, oh, workout fiend Obama's still a smoker
tnr.com - 12/11/2008
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tnr.com —
Around the time of the November election, John
Nagl, a retired Army Colonel, took a helicopter ride...
across Afghanistan. What he saw below worried him. Nagl, who is 42 with trim brown hair and academic eyeglasses, spent three years in Iraq, including ...
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