outsidethewire.com - 11/3/2009
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This line from a Washington Post story (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/23/AR2009102301828.html) jumped out at me:
The arrival of war dead at Dover has long pitted free speech advocates against the government, which had been accused of using the ban to hide the ...
fpif.org - 11/3/2009
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fpif.org —
Untitled Document While President Barack Obama reviews his
strategy on Afghanistan, a perfect moment to send a...
strong unified message to end the war is slipping through our fingers. Whether it's because we seem to have bought into the lies about the ...
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A Call for Clarity on the Afghanistan War
Facebook.com - 25 days ago
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Facebook.com —
IAVA is the first and largest non-profit, non-partisan
organization dedicated to bettering the lives of veterans of...
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families. Learn more, and join today at www.iava.org. Information Founded: 2004 Fans 6 of ...
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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
article.nationalreview.com - 10/30/2009
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O ld Soviet joke: Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls
in Khrushchev. “Niki, I’m dying. Don’t have much to...
leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big trouble.” A few years later, first crisis. Khrushchev opens envelope 1: ...
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Three Envelopes -- By: Charles Krauthammer
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J.D. JOHANNES ON THE MEDIA: “Free speech on the cheap.”…
Instapundit —
J.D. JOHANNES ON THE MEDIA: “Free speech on the cheap.”
The Price of War
what if? —
... Instapundit linked to this post by JD Johannes, someone who has seen war up close and personal.
Begeleiter said, "Taking pictures of the returning casualties to Dover is a measure of the human cost of war. Do you want the government ultimately to have control over what we see or not see? Or do you want independent observers, an independent press or media, relaying those images?"
Mr. Begleiter if you really want to understand the human cost of war, don't stand on a fucking tarmac, get embedded and see the human cost of war up ...
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