mudvillegazette.com - 12/2/2008
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( The Blue Pill was discussed here .)
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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 ...
abcnews.go.com - 12/1/2008
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abcnews.go.com —
Looking back on his eight years in the
White House, President George W. Bush pinpointed incorrect intelligence...
that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as "biggest regret of all the presidency." "I think I was unprepared ...
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Bush: 'I Did Not Compromise My Principles'
michaelyon-online.com - 12/1/2008
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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 ...
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The Art of the End of War
washingtonpost.com - 12/1/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Sunday, November 30, 2008; B01 I should have
felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August...
2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfully hunted down one of the most notorious mass murderers of our ...
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I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq
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(The Blue Pill was discussed here.) ***** 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. ***** This is The Red Pill. My friend Grim, from somewhere very near Baghdad:Back in September, I talked with Colonel... 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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mudvillegazette.com 12/2/2008 —
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 ...
The Red Pill (III)
mudvillegazette.com 3/7/2009 — MAHMUDIYA, Iraq — As he returned to base here after a day patrolling a place once called the Triangle of Death, Capt. Landgrove T. Smith of the First Battalion, 63rd Armor, summarized the war in Iraq in a way that would once have been unthinkable.
“We’re in the endgame now,” he said. We've ...
Victory In Iraq Day
confederateyankee.mu.nu 11/25/2008 — The Iraq Wars are over, and we have won. Let me say that again. WE HAVE WON THE IRAQ WARS. And yes, I do mean to use the plural, as we have, along with our allies, won three intertwined...
SoI: Diyala
mudvillegazette.com 1/12/2009 — Continuing a series begun here .
As 2008 drew to a close, Adam Weinstein, MNC-I Public Affairs, sent us the following update on the transfer of the Sons of Iraq program to Government of Iraq control.
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Progress for Peace: Reconciliation ...
SoI: Anbar
mudvillegazette.com 1/12/2009 — Third in a series, previous entry here .
More from Adam Weinstein, on the near-future of the Sons of Iraq program.
Anbar grassroots movement reaches milestone:
Sons of Iraq registration underway
By Adam Weinstein
MNC-I Public Affairs ...
Get ready to change the name to CryVAW...
mudvillegazette.com 11/21/2008 — As the panties begin inevitable twist : Reporting from Washington -- Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama's national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq ...
Obama Taps Shinseki for Veterans Affairs; Ironies Abound
juancole.com 12/7/2008 — 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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Reuters: Politics 12/1/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said the biggest regret of his presidency was flawed intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and told ABC "World News" in an interview airing on Monday that he was unprepared for war when ...
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