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While America Slept (Part four)
mudvillegazette.com - 5/25/2009
While America Slept (Part four)
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From July, 2008... ***** (Previous entry in series here .) ***** "I’m reluctant to say “the war has ended,” as he did, but everything else he wrote is undoubtedly true." - Michael Totten , on Michael Yon. He was expanding on a brief post he'd done at his own site , in which ...
online.wsj.com - 5/21/2009
Flip-Flops and Governance
— online.wsj.com — KARL ROVE Barack Obama inherited a set of national-security policies that he rejected during the campaign but... now embraces as president. This is a stunning and welcome about-face. For example, President Obama kept George W. Bush's military tribunals ... (more) Flip-Flops and Governance

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reuters.com - 5/28/2009
Pentagon denies report Iraq prison photos show rape
— reuters.com — (Updates with denial; previous LONDON) WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday denied a British... newspaper report that photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse, whose release U.S. President Barack Obama wants to block, include images of ... (more) Pentagon denies report Iraq prison photos show rape

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Michael J. Totten: The Future of Iraq, Part II
michaeltotten.com - 5/27/2009
Michael J. Totten: The Future of Iraq, Part II
— michaeltotten.com — The Future of Iraq Part II.jpg The first time I visited Baghdad, I only stayed for a... week. The place stressed me out. The surge was only just then beginning, and though I never was shot at personally, I often heard the sound of gunfire in the ... (more) Michael J. Totten: The Future of Iraq, Part II

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