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The Blue Pill
The Blue Pill
Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes . Ladies and ...
Op-Ed Columnist: Obama’s Iraq Inheritance
Op-Ed Columnist: Obama’s Iraq Inheritance
nytimes.com — For the first time, there is a chance that a reasonably stable democratizing government, though no doubt corrupt in places, can take root in the Iraqi political space. > (more) Op-Ed Columnist: Obama’s Iraq Inheritance
NY  Times  Scurrying To Give Obama Victory Credit For Their Shared Defeat In Iraq
NY Times Scurrying To Give Obama Victory Credit For Their Shared Defeat In Iraq
confederateyankee.mu.nu — Barack Obama and his Democratic allies have famously done everything in their power to try to lose the Iraqi War while President Bush is in office, but now that everyone with any understanding of the conflict knows that the war... (more) NY Times Scurrying To Give Obama Victory Credit For ...
The Art of the End of War
The Art of the End of War
michaelyon-online.com — The Art of the End of War   Published: 01 December 2008 Zabul Province, Afghanistan (Travel from Iraq to Afghanistan, and needless bureaucratic delays, nearly killed this dispatch. Though many photos were made during the recent journey in ... (more) The Art of the End of War
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Mudville Gazette: The Blue Pill
Victory Caucus -- All Content — Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Ladies and gentlemen, an important announcement from the Office of the President-Elect:At a time when we face unprecedented transition amidst two wars, Ive asked Secretary... read ...

Bitter Pills
Jules Crittenden — [image] « Hack Hero Bitter Pills Greyhawk’s got ‘em. Blue Pill . Red Pill . Another Red Pill . I like this part from Red Pill Part 2: Its become all too common these days to approach declaring everything before the surge as “failed” in Iraq - in spite of the fact that all of the tactics used during the surge were tried and proven in the years prior, in Tal Afar and Qaim and Ramadi and other locations throughout the country, and nowhere had American troops surrendered the battle.“We initially looked at this is a classic counterinsurgency, ...

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