voices.washingtonpost.com - 2/13/2009
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An excerpt from this war criminal's wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kristol According to journalist Dana Milbank, Kristol was "perhaps the most outspoken supporter of the Iraq War".[9] On September 18, 2002, he declared that a war in Iraq "could have terrifically good ...
independent.co.uk - 2/17/2009
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independent.co.uk —
In what could turn out to be the
greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started...
to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn ( 88bn) in a US -directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall ...
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A 'fraud' bigger than Madoff -
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amazon.com - 2/10/2009
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amazon.com —
Amazon.com Review Amazon Best of the Month, February
2009 : Anyone who read Fiasco , Thomas E....
Ricks's superb, bestselling account of the Iraq War through 2005, and has followed the war since has likely noticed that many of the heroes of that ...
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The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American ...
usatoday.com - 2/13/2009
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usatoday.com —
As the Obama administration considers how quickly to
pull troops out of Iraq and shift some of...
them to Afghanistan, Maj. Gen. Michael Oates told reporters in Baghdad that his region of Iraq is seeing about two attacks on U.S. servicemembers each day — ...
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General says security permanent in Iraq's south
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More on Gregg's Withdrawal
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Over at the Washington Post's "Post Partisan" blog, Bill Kristol offers his take on why Gregg withdrew. It increasingly looks like the White House's census power grab is the reason Gregg walked. ...
Did Gregg Provide an Opening for the GOP?
News —
... Obama and Bill Kristol notes that the withdrawal provides the GOP an opportunity to continue to attack Obama. One effect of this story will be to exacerbate the sense among Republicans that, after all the happy talk during the transition, the Obama administration has taken on a surprisingly political and partisan cast. Republicans on the Hill with whom I’ve spoken are in a sense relieved; they were worried that clever “post-partisan” or bipartisan tactics by Obama could split and weaken an already uncertain and demoralized GOP. But if it is true that Rahm Emanuel chooses to ...
Gregg Out
JustOneMinute —
... : Comments The story circulating among Hill Republicans is that Gregg wasn’t notified about the Census matter before the announcement, and that he demanded of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel a few days ago that the decision be reversed. I'm told that Emanuel said he would get back to him, but Gregg heard nothing. So he requested a meeting with the president and said he couldn’t be part of the Obama administration. This seems to be a pattern. Just ask ...
The GOP's War On Obama: Confirmed
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... that forced Gregg to pull out. The idea that a Republican could help give Obama cover on entitlement reform and that he would preside over a big increase in Hispanic representation in the Census was too much for the Rovian partisans. Shill Kristol lets the cat out of the bag: ...
Gingrich’s plan to bring the Commerce Department to a halt: Will the GOP follow?
Think Progress —
... In recent days, conservatives have been claiming that the reason Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) withdrew as Obama’s Commerce Secretary nominee was because of an alleged White House plan to “ ...
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The headlines for those cynics do not go beyond the throw of a shoe, whereas my headlines look into the future and speak of a new Iraq. My headlines speak of ...
Senator seeks Bush-era "truth commission" —
Reuters: Politics 2/10/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. "truth commission" should investigate Bush administration policies including the promotion of war in Iraq, detainee treatment and wiretapping without a warrant, an influential senator proposed on Monday.
About those secret prisons —
First Read 2/12/2009
From NBC's Jade Taenzler and Claire Luke The Department of Justice’s involvement in the CIA’s “ghost” detention program is certain, according to three human rights groups -- Amnesty International USA, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the ...
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