neptunuslex.com - 2/25/2009
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A 40-year old second lieutenant stationed in Iraq is apparently getting way out of his swim lane :
A U.S. soldier on active duty in Iraq has called President Obama an “impostor” in a statement in which he affirmed plans to join as plaintiff in a challenge to Obama’s ...
books.foreignpolicy.com - 2/23/2009
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by Marc Lynch The Gamble is perhaps the
best of the rapidly proliferating crop of "Iraq surge"...
books. While it shares the generally admiring tone for the architects of the surge common in such books, it maintains the critical ...
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Iraq doesn't have to last forever
ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 2/24/2009
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It seems to me that by vowing to
get out of Iraq in 16 months, President Obama...
is not departing from the mistakes of George Bush, but repeating them. That is, Bush was persistently overoptimistic about Iraq. His original war plan assumed that the ...
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Will Obama repeat Bush's big mistake in Iraq?
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Army Officer Challenges Obama’s Eligibility
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... . The soldier in question, 40-year-old contractor-turned 2LT Scott Easterling asserts that his oath to defend the Constitution require that, “Until Mr. Obama releases a ‘vault copy’ of his original birth certificate for public review, I will consider him neither my Commander in Chief nor my President, but rather, a usurper to the Office – an impostor.” Neptunus Lex ‘ one-line summary of this captures my thoughts: “A 40-year old second lieutenant stationed in Iraq is apparently getting way out of his swim lane.” Even if I had doubts about Obama’s citizenship — and I don’t — ...
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