seattlepi.com - 3/16/2009
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is making a big mistake in escalating U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan where he already has acknowledged he doesn't believe victory is possible. We should ask: What are we doing there seven years after the 9/11 attacks by the al-Qaida network? Historically, ...
usatoday.com - 3/20/2009
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usatoday.com —
The 11.2% jobless rate for veterans who served
in Iraq and Afghanistan and who are 18 and...
older rose 4 percentage points in the past year. That's significantly higher than the corresponding 8.8% rate for non-veterans in the same age group, says Labor ...
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Jobless rate at 11.2% for veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan
nytimes.com - 3/23/2009
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nytimes.com —
In an interview on CBS, President Obama signaled
that the military build-up in Afghanistan will not be...
open-ended and will lead to the eventual withdrawal of American and NATO troops. >
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Obama Says a Way Out of Afghanistan Is Needed
reuters.com - 3/22/2009
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reuters.com —
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama insisted on
Sunday that military force alone would not end the...
war in Afghanistan and suggested a U.S. "exit strategy" could be part of a new comprehensive policy he is expected to unveil soon. Obama, in ...
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Obama: U.S. must have exit strategy in Afghanistan
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Buh-Bye to the P. I.: Couldn't happen to a more liberal paper. Check that. It can and it will.
AMERICAN DIGEST —
... Still, the P-I died as it lived, offering up the bile of columnists such as zombie journalist Helen Thomas bleating What are U.S. goals in Afghanistan? It also boasted editorials whining that the state of Washington ...
Afghanistan: All About Oil?
Antiwar.com Original —
A fter my column last week on Afghanistan was published I got an exasperated e-mail from my old friend Dave Redick , who has a fair amount of potentially pro-freedom activity underway, complaining that he had Googled the piece for the words "oil" and "pipeline" and found nary a mention. Because of that lack, he figured I had missed the real reason we Americanos want to be involved in Afghanistan and was wasting my time and peoples' attention discussing phony issues like the Taliban , al-Qaeda, supply problems , ...
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