strategypage.com - 10/27/2008
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October 27, 2008: The war is over. Most of the noise these days is from politicians arguing, not bombs going off. There are still bombs, but now they tend to be assassination attempts, as some political parties play dirty (not unknown in this part of the world). Up north, the Turkish Air Force ...
townhall.com - 10/27/2008
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townhall.com —
When Josh Mandel got a call from the
Marines last year asking him to return voluntarily to
Iraq, he had much more to contemplate than when he first enlisted in 2000. He had just been elected to the Ohio state legislature. Family considerations were ...
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Joel Mowbray : Iraq War vet’s service attacked in ...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 10/28/2008
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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org —
Robert Kagan, a leading member of John McCain’s
war cabinet , recently gave an interview to Der
Spiegel in which he was asked about the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq : SPIEGEL: Isn’t it true that Bush, Cheney and ...
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McCain Adviser Dismisses Evidence Of Bush’s Iraq ...
projects.publicintegrity.org - 10/28/2008
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projects.publicintegrity.org —
On August 26, 2002, in an address to
the national convention of the Veteran of Foreign Wars,
Cheney flatly declared: "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to ...
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Iraq: The War Card
- The Center ...
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The War Is Over In Iraq
Say Anything —
... October 27, 2008: The war is over. Most of the noise these days is from politicians arguing, not bombs going off. There are still bombs, but now they tend to be assassination attempts, as some political parties play dirty (not unknown in this part of the world). . . . ...
We’ve won in Iraq, but will W get any credit? Will McCain?
GayPatriot —
... For the next three years, McCain pressed the Administration to develop a new strategy to respond to the increasing violence and to prevent Iraq from sliding into civil war. Finally, after his party suffered badly in the 2006 elections, the president took McCain’s advice and implemented the “surge.” It succeeded and now the “war is over.” We’ve won. (Via ...
John McCain, Joe Biden and The Integrity Gap (Part III of III)
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
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the Bush Administration adopted the "surge" strategy that
incorporated a short-term increase in troop levels, McCain went
all-in on the strategy, banking his campaign on America's success.
Had the surge failed, McCain would have been toast in the general
election, and probably early enough that it would have cost him the
primaries as well. But as on immigration, McCain eschewed the
cautious approach and the conventional wisdom in favor of his
longstanding principles. That America stands
within reach of victory in Iraq is in no small part due to his
persistent advocacy of ...
They stand there like a stone
Belmont Club —
... The danger I see looming is the scenario of America as the last man standing. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe. In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe? There is already a certain quaintness to the Wilders’ speech, as if it were given in a place far, far away in a time long, long ago. The speech at the Four Seasons expresses ideas from before the financial meltdown. We have other concerns now. Quoting the Strategy Page , ...
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minnesota.publicradio.org 10/24/2008 — St. Cloud, Minn. — Bachmann made her comments in an interview earlier this month with Lawrence Schumacher, a reporter with the St. Cloud Times. The 23-minute interview, which was distributed as a podcast on the paper's Web site, focused on a variety ...
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taylormarsh.com 10/21/2008 — BY TAYLOR MARSH
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at the end of the year. The new draft agreement between our countries expands
that mandate :
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What's Next in Iraq
michaeltotten.com 12/1/2008 — I'm working on a long dispatch from the Sadr City area. Here is a short piece in COMMENTARY to hold you over in the meantime. Thank you for being patient. Everything, including writing and publishing, is a gigantic hassle in Iraq.
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An Iraqi Accord and a New U.S. President —
Wash Post Federal Page 10/27/2008
The status-of-forces agreement that would govern conduct of the U.S. military and its contractors in Iraq beyond 2008 would apparently tie the hands of the next U.S. president in some respects if it was ratified by the Iraqis before Jan. 20.
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