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620wtmj.com - 18 hours ago
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BAGHDAD - It seems that the Brett Favre-Green
Bay Packers saga is such a worldwide phenomenon that
it's being used by detainees in American military camps. According to a military official, detainees at a Wisconsin National Guard camp in Iraq are ...
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Detainees at Camp in Iraq Use Favre To Tease Wisconsin ...
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democracynow.org - 15 hours ago
As UC Regents Approve Major Tuition Hike, Students, Faculty Decry Erosion of Public Education in ...
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Amid thousands of student protesters and armed police
standing guard, the University of California's Board of Regents
has approved a 32 percent increase in student fees. The vote will bring the total cost of a UC education to more than $10,000 per ...
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As UC Regents Approve Major Tuition Hike, Students, ...
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nytimes.com - 12 hours ago
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BAGHDAD In its largest reconstruction effort since
the Marshall Plan , the United States government has
spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, building tens of thousands of hospitals, water treatment plants, ...
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U.S. Fears Iraq Development Projects May Go to Waste
huffingtonpost.com - 12 hours ago
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Stephen Colbert sat down with David Letterman last
night and reminisced about his trip to Iraq .
He recounted for Dave his visit to the White House where the president taped a segment for Stephen to show the troops. Turns out the president is an ...
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Colbert On "Letterman": Obama Is The Meryl Streep Of ...
americasfuture.org - 16 hours ago
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The Iraqis are using Brett Favre to taunt
American soldiers. Goddddddammit. According to a military official, detainees
at a Wisconsin National Guard camp in Iraq are using Brett Favre as a manner of getting at the guard troops there. “They know ...
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Brett Favre: History’s Greatest Monster
cqpolitics.com - 15 hours ago
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CQ TODAY MIDDAY UPDATE Nov. 20, 2009 –
1:43 p.m. Democrats Propose Surtax to Cover War Costs
Senior House Democrats have introduced legislation that would impose a surtax beginning in 2011 to cover the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ...
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Democrats Propose Surtax to Cover War Costs
democracynow.org - 34 hours ago
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As California struggles with a crippling $21 billion
project deficit, professor and progressive activist George Lakoff has
submitted a 2010 ballot proposition that would roll back the two-thirds majority needed to pass a budget and, he says, end the ...
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Amidst California Fiscal Crisis and Political Gridlock, ...
tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com - 43 hours ago
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During her interview with Sean Hannity that aired
last night, Sarah Palin made an interesting declaration: That
we need to prevent a nuclear Iran by cracking down on "Iraq." Sarah Palin - Iraq - United States - Government - Alaska
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Palin: Crack Down On 'Iraq' To Prevent Nuclear Iran
youtube.com - 43 hours ago
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more at foxnews.com, November 18, 2009
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Palin: Crack Down On 'Iraq' To Prevent Nuclear Iran (video)
minx.cc - 19 hours ago
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This is just plain wrong as Drewzer pointed
out in the comments.BAGHDAD - It seems that the
Brett Favre-Green Bay Packers saga is such a worldwide phenomenon that it's being used by detainees in American military camps. According to a...
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Detainees in Iraq asking for a good waterboarding
gatewaypundit.firstthings.com - 23 hours ago
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“60 Minutes” ran a wonderful segment on the
restoration of the Iraqi marshes. Saddam Hussein drained thousands
of miles of marshland after the 1991 War and slaughtered the Marsh Arabs who lived there. But after Iraq was liberated from ...
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‘60 Minutes’ Runs 15 Minute Segment on ...
truthdig.com - 22 hours ago
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By David Sirota Any hope that we aren’t
turning into a full-on slobbering idiocracy was snuffed out
last week by two of the Washington intelligentsia’s most respected voices. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 20, 2009 ...
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Intelligentsia Against Intelligence
politicolnews.com - 36 hours ago
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You’ve got to be kidding? Sarah Palin wants
to cut off aid to Iraq? Palin to Crack
Down on Iwrack, or Iraq? or Iran? TAGS: Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin You’ve Got to Be Kidding, Palinism, Palin to Cut Aid to Iraq, Social Bookmarking © admin for , 2009. | Permalink | No comment ...
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Sarah Palin-You’ve Got to Be Kidding Right?
boston.com - 42 hours ago
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WHAT WAS in the mind of President Obama
last week as he stepped apart from the official
Veterans Day obsequies to walk silently amid the grave markers of America’s war dead at Arlington Cemetery? The impression of his deep preoccupation evoked a ...
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Arlington, Obama, and the Afghan decision
corner.nationalreview.com - 37 hours ago
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As Kathryn noted , today Senator Fred Thompson
declared, “It really doesn't matter how President Obama divides
the Afghan baby, how he splits the difference between McChrystal and Biden. Because the war has been lost .” That’s right, Senator ...
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Fred Thompson's Harry Reid Impression -- By: Pete Hegseth
smallwarsjournal.com - 5 days ago
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An Evening of Counterinsurgency at the Pritzker Military
Library Hearts and minds? Overrated. If you want to
run a successful counterinsurgency, it all starts with the person at the top. On Thursday, December 3rd, Mark Moyar will appear at the ...
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An Evening of COIN
thecampaignstore.com - 44 hours ago
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Go Back The holiday season, beginning with Thanksgiving,
is always a difficult time for our troops deployed
to Iraq and Afghanistan. They will be missing their moms and dads, brothers and sisters. Many will be missing their wives and children, some ...
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The Campaign Store
rhymeswithright.mu.nu - 2 days ago
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Except for short blurb type articles, I almost
never duplicate an entire article or column that appears
in the press. I'm making an exception here, because this is a message from one of America's finest on the ever of his...
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A Message From The 72nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 42 hours ago
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From NBC's Sue KrollU.S. offcials said Wednesday that
the U.S. was disappointed by news that the Iraqi
Vice President vetoed a key part of Iraq's election law. "We urge the Iraqi leaders and parliament to to take quick action," State Department ...
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Iraq veto could affect troop withdrawal
en.aswataliraq.info - 2 days ago
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraqi Vice President
Tareq al-Hashemi on Wednesday held the Iraqi army 24th
brigade and its commander, Colonel Raheem Kareem Resan, responsible for the killings of 17 people in Abu-Ghraib district. Al-Hashemi described the ...
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VP holds army brigade responsible for Abu-Ghraib killings
