openleft.com - 12/7/2008
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I can't say I know all that much about General Eric Shinseki , the former Army Chief of Staff. Like most Americans, about all I know about him is that, before the Iraq war, he argued that occupying Iraq would require an enormous American military presence far is excess of what the country was ...
online.wsj.com - 12/5/2008
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online.wsj.com —
JAMES TARANTO Barack Obama was elected president a
month ago and does not take office for another...
6 weeks. But his most fervent supporters already have reason to be disappointed in him. Witness the headline of a "news analysis" in today's New York ...
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'Muted by Reality'
weeklystandard.com - 12/5/2008
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weeklystandard.com —
Word on the street is Obama will head
to an Arab capital for a major speech in...
his first 100 days. I doubt anyone in the United States will care much one way or the other, preoccupied as we are by our own economic problems, but that's not to say such ...
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Why Not Baghdad?
juancole.com - 12/7/2008
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juancole.com —
Barack Obama will put forward retired Gen. Eric
Shinseki as Secretary of Veterans Affairs in his cabinet....
. WaPo quoted me: 'Juan Cole, a University of Michigan history professor who writes about the Iraq war and Islam, called Shinseki's ...
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Obama Taps Shinseki for Veterans Affairs; Ironies Abound
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Unpossible
Eschaton —
Unpossible It's important to remember that Shinseki's testimony wasn't just about giving an honest assessment of what it would take to to occupy Iraq successfully , it was also about making the point that we cannot do this . What 500,000 troops?
Evening Thread
Eschaton —
Unpossible It's important to remember that Shinseki's testimony wasn't just about giving an honest assessment of what it would take to to occupy Iraq successfully , it was also about making the point that we cannot do this . What 500,000 troops?
One More
Eschaton —
Unpossible It's important to remember that Shinseki's testimony wasn't just about giving an honest assessment of what it would take to to occupy Iraq successfully , it was also about making the point that we cannot do this . What 500,000 troops?
Deep Thought
Eschaton —
Unpossible It's important to remember that Shinseki's testimony wasn't just about giving an honest assessment of what it would take to to occupy Iraq successfully , it was also about making the point that we cannot do this . What 500,000 troops?
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