raisingkaine.com - 11/24/2008
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Yesterday, I hinted at changes here with a short post entitled, "All Good Things..." I also promised "More details to follow." Well, here they are. :) When Eric and I started a little blog called "Raising Kaine" (actually, we initially toyed with other names such as "Citizen Kaine") on January ...
mcclatchydc.com - 11/20/2008
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WASHINGTON — Although the Pentagon officially has welcomed
the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from...
Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President Bush for giving Iraq more control over U.S. military operations for ...
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Why the U.S. blinked on its troop agreement with Iraq
mcclatchydc.com - 11/26/2008
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Iraqi legal jurisdiction over U.S. troops or military
contractors who kill Iraqis on operations. The agreement calls...
for Iraq to prosecute U.S. troops according to court procedures that have yet to be worked out. Those negotiations, administration ...
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McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/25/2008 | U.S. staying ...
washingtonpost.com - 11/20/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 17, 2008;
4:43 PM The U.S. military would require two to...
three years to remove its roughly 150,000 troops and equipment from Iraq safely, and the timing of that withdrawal should be based on security ...
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Mullen: U.S. Would Need More Than 2 Years for Iraq ...
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Sister Blog Site Calling it a Day - Raising Kaine to End its Run this Year
BlueNC - The people's think tank —
... Please head on over and let them know they'll be missed. Whether you read them or not, they've touched your experience here as they set a strong example for other state blogs. ...
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Daily Kos —
Raising Kaine will shutter its doors at the end of the year as its principals scatter to more lucrative endeavors. Unfortunately, state-level blogging is mostly a labor of love, and there's a limit to how long people can keep up that sort of thing. Funny: Damn those unions for destroying Citigroup!!! IL-Sen: I agree 100 percent with Nate -- appoint a caretaker Senator to fill out Obama's seat the next two years, and then let the people of Illinois decide in an open-seat Democratic primary and election decide who should be Obama's _true_ ...
Thank You Raising Kaine
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Raising Kaine... you will be missed.
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Open Left - Front Page —
You might not have noticed what with all now millions of people losing their jobs, the largest looting of a national treasury since probably the Sack of Rome and the dogged determination of Senate Republicans to revive the glory years of the Pinkertons ...
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