minnesota.publicradio.org - 10/24/2008
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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 of issues including Bachmann's first month in ...
ynetnews.com - 10/23/2008
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Larijani: Iran prefers Obama Iranian parliament speaker says
his country is leaning towards Democratic candidate in US...
presidential election 'because he is more flexible and rational' AFP Iranian parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Wednesday that ...
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iht.com - 10/21/2008
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pact BEIRUT, Lebanon : Lebanon's top Shiite cleric
criticized Tuesday a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact, saying the...
Baghdad government has no right to "legitimize" the presence of foreign troops. Iraqi-born Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah ...
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Lebanese Shiite cleric opposes US-Iraq pact - ...
juancole.com - 10/23/2008
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The debate between Senators John McCain and Barack
Obama about a timetable for withdrawal of US troops...
from Iraq may have just been overtaken by events. Without a bilateral agreement on the rules governing US military actions in Iraq, US soldiers ...
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Iraq Moves Closer to Obama-Type Plan for early US ...
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The Uptake: Michele Bachmann: "Not All Cultures Are Equal" (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... While Bachmann's statement may have come as a surprise to people outside of her home district in central Minnesota, she has a history of making statements that are inflammatory, controversial, questionably informed and that require further explanation. Up until now, the most famous of those was her assertion that there was a plan already in place to partition Iraq and give half of it to Iran. She later said her comments had been "misconstrued," but did not elaborate. ...
Bachmann: "Not All Cultures Are Equal"
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... While Bachmann's statement may have come as a surprise to people outside of her home district in central Minnesota, she has a history of making statements that are inflammatory, controversial and requiring further explanation. Up until now, the most famous of those was her assertion that there was a plan already in place to partition Iraq and give half of it to Iran. She later said her comments had been "misconstrued", but did not elaborate. One comment that she has never explained was made in a debate she had while running for Congress the first time in November of 2005. ...
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