youtube.com - 3/25/2009
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CODEPINK DC's questions for Congress on Afghanistan, as part of the RethinkAfghanistan.com project.
motherjones.com - 3/27/2009
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motherjones.com —
This morning, after President Barack Obama unveiled his
new Afghanistan policy, three senior administration officials held an...
on-the-record (but no cameras) briefing for White House reporters. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the special envoy for ...
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Holbrooke Calls for "Complete Rethink" of Drugs in ...
slate.com - 3/24/2009
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slate.com —
A U.S. Marine in Afghanistan. Click image to
expand. A U.S. Marine in Afghanistan With just a...
week until President Barack Obama flies to Strasbourg, France, for his first NATO conference, his top advisers are still divided over what U.S. policy should ...
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Obama must choose this week between two radically ...
commentarymagazine.com - 3/27/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
The new Afghanistan policy that President Obama unveiled
at the White House today was pretty much all...
that supporters of the war effort could have asked for, and probably pretty similar to what a President McCain would have decided on. The major ...
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A New Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
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Video: Code Pink teaching the children … to regurgitate slogans
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Video: Code Pink teaching the children … to regurgitate slogans posted at 5:25 pm on March 25, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Well, Barney Frank did tell Code Pink to “grow up” yesterday, so it should come as no surprise that they’re using an eight-year-old for sloganeering. Conservatives don’t mind using a fresh-faced youngster for political argument, either, so we can’t act completely aghast at the concept, but at least we tend to wait until the kids become teenagers and use those few short years when they know everything . In this case, though, we get the creepy father exploiting his daughter’s ...
Teach Your Children Well...or NOT
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Dad: Well, let me ask you this. Some people think we should send a lot of soldiers there [to Afghanistan]. Do you think that would help them [the people of Afghanistan]?
Daughter: N - O.
Dad: Why would, uh, why would sending soldiers to them not help?
Daughter: Because, if you think about it, our last president, who made a big mess … [inaudible] … You know, he made a big mess, and so he has this, like, charm. So when he sends troops, he tells the people, “Oh, they’re going to go get food for them,” and all that. But ...
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