rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 11/24/2008
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In a rare harmonic convergence, the Hillary-to-State news has Daniel Larison and Michael Goldfarb arguing along similar lines, joining the chorus of voices who see Obama's likely national-security appointments as a blow to those who hoped for a real progressive turn in foreign policy. Having ...
navyspouce.blogspot.com - 11/18/2008
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navyspouce.blogspot.com —
I support Victory in Iraq Day! I join
in with other bloggers over at Zombie's blog to
lend support on November 22, 2008. We won. The Iraq War is over. I declare November 22, 2008 to be "Victory in Iraq Day." (Hereafter known as "VI Day.") By ...
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Victory In Iraq Day
noblesseoblige.org - 11/18/2008
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noblesseoblige.org —
. Zombie’s braver than I, I was going
to wait until the defense pact agreement passed the
assembly in Iraq, but what the hey…. Victory in Iraq Day! 1 One other note on this: I predict the media will not join in, I predict that they will ...
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Victory in Iraq Day
tennesseefree.com - 11/18/2008
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tennesseefree.com —
Zombie has declared November 22, 2008 to be
the rightful Victory in Iraq (VI) day… We won.
The Iraq War is over.I declare November 22, 2008 to be “Victory in Iraq Day.” (Hereafter known as “VI Day.”) By every measure, The ...
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VICTORY IN IRAQ DAY! November 22, 2008
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MIDDAY ROUNDUP
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... blogs. Pairing Secretary of Defense Bob Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton might bring together realists and conservatives in Obama’s foreign policy team, which may be politically beneficial to Obama in the long run, Ross Douthat says. The choices for Obama’s foreign policy team are not surprising to ...
Letting Those Who Started The War End It
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Ross knows how tough getting out of Iraq will be: ...there will be difficulties - maybe a lot of difficulties - along the way, and it's very easy to imagine a scenario in which the withdrawal from Iraq ends up dominating the foreign-affairs side of the ledger in Obama's first term, and not necessarily in a good way. And by putting the job in the hands of Robert Gates and Hillary Clinton - a Republican appointee and a primary-season rival who attacked him from the right on foreign policy - Obama has effectively given realists and liberal hawks partial ...
11/25: Judging Obama By The Company He Keeps
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... to appoint VP-elect Joe Biden 's former CoS Ted Kaufman to fill Biden's Senate seat until a 2010 special election: THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Getting Out Of Iraq The Atlantic 's Ross Douthat : "In a rare harmonic convergence, the Hillary-to-State news has ...
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