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mahablog.com - 104 minutes ago
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mahablog.com —
As we settle into collective amnesia over Iraq,
the Brits actually are holding a public inquiry into...
how they got themselves into that misbegotten adventure. In today’s news we learn from Sir Christopher Meyer, former ambassador to Washington, that at least some people in the British ...
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Set the Iraq Record Straight
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liberalvaluesblog.com - 4 hours ago
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Reports that the Bush administration was trying to
blame the 9/11 attack on Saddam, and that they...
ultimately went to war without evidence of WMD, are hardly news. Reports from the Iraq War Inquiry in London do add more background to this, including that former British ambassador to the United ...
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Britain Expected To “Prove Saddam Was Guilty” After Invasion
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americanthinker.com - 6 hours ago
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Democrat Senator from North Dakota, Kent Conrad, while
defending the Obama Administration's decision to try al Qaeda...
terrorists in civilian courts, said :"If people don't believe in our system, maybe they ought to go somewhere else." Really Senator ...
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American Thinker Blog: Senator Conrad's insulting ...
mudvillegazette.com - 17 hours ago
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mudvillegazette.com —
Thanksgiving dinner video from the dining facilities (DFACs)
on Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
2009. Soundtrack is my addition, and should be familiar to one and all. I'm thankful to have been there, done that, and be home for this one. And I'm thankful that the ...
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Thanksgiving during war - Iraq and Afghanistan, 2009
themoderatevoice.com - 22 hours ago
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I first got to know Phil Carter as
a blogger, rather than an attorney, a Iraq war...
veteran or the director of the Obama campaign’s outreach to veterans. Until this week, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Policy. Or as the NY Times put it: Official charged with ...
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Blogger resigns from Pentagon detainee post
mudvillegazette.com - 24 hours ago
mudvillegazette.com - 24 hours ago
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mudvillegazette.com —
A tip of the hat to all the
folks who worked hard to prepare a Thanksgiving feast...
today - for many fine chefs it's truly their finest hour . And here, just for fun, a behind the scenes video of some unsung heroes preparing Thanksgiving dinner for a few thousand hungry troops at a US military ...
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Somewhere in a DFAC in Iraq...
outsidethewire.com - 26 hours ago
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Over the Tigris river, through the desert and
through a rough neighborhood where people occasionally throw RKG-3...
anti-tank grenades (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RKG-3_anti-tank_grenade) at US military vehicles......we drove. Not to Grandma's ...
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Thanksgiving in Tikrit, Iraq
guardian.co.uk - 31 hours ago
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• Sir Christopher Meyer says plans to invade
Iraq did not give time for weapons inspectors •...
Meyer: 'not clear if Blair signed in blood' for invasion at George Bush's Texas ranch The military timetable for an invasion of Iraq in 2003 did not give ...
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War build-up 'left us scrabbling for smoking gun', says ...
blackfive.net - 35 hours ago
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I've spent the last two Thanksgivings in Iraq,
but not this year. It will be interesting to...
see how a real Thanksgiving dinner compares to the Army's! It's good to be home this year, but I hope you'll keep the deployed in your thoughts at times ...
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Thanksgiving 2009: This Time At Home!
ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 35 hours ago
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I didn't see this in my regular newspapers.
It happened up in Baqubah. Police took two wounded,...
army apparently none. I don't know what it means. Maybe just a personal dispute , maybe more than that. Photo: ALI YUSSEF/AFP/Getty Images
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Iraq, the unraveling (XXXI): Iraqi army shootout with ...
notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com - 45 hours ago
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notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com —
Maureen Dowd Kathleen Parker Dana Milbank Thomas F
Cooley "The industry is on the verge of a...
coup that many would have thought impossible a year ago: an escape from any major reform of financial regulations." - Dana Milbank "You don't have to be a black helicopter fan to recognize that ...
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Minorities in Iraq, OK, I mean the Gypsies... Mercs R Us
telegraph.co.uk - 2 days ago
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telegraph.co.uk —
Tony Blair received intelligence that Saddam Hussein's weapons
of mass destruction had been "dismantled" 10 days before...
Britain invaded Iraq, the inquiry into the 2003 war has been told.
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Iraq inquiry: Tony Blair told 'days before invasion' WMD ...
youtube-global.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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youtube-global.blogspot.com —
Earlier this year, I visited Baghdad as a
guest of the U.S. State Department to engage in...
conversations about the role of technology in Iraq. In discussions with elected officials, private companies and NGOs, I routinely heard the desire to connect ...
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YouTube Blog: Iraqi Government on YouTube
huffingtonpost.com - 2 days ago
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Phill Carter, a key Pentagon appointee in charge
of detainee affairs, has resigned. Carter told the Washington...
Post that he was leaving for "personal and family reasons." Carter, an Iraq war veteran, worked on new policies that helped Guantanamo ...
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Phil Carter Resigns: Key Pentagon Appointee Worked On ...
news.bbc.co.uk - 2 days ago
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The UK investigated claims of links between Saddam
Hussein and al-Qaeda but decided they were not "natural...
allies", the Iraq inquiry has been told. Despite "sporadic" contacts between al-Qaeda members and Iraq in the 1990s, there was no "serious ...
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Officials tell inquiry Iraq and al-Qaeda 'not allies'
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 2 days ago
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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com —
Posting about our coming entitlement problem generates some
non-sequiturs masquerading as incisive political commentary. Conservatives have "no...
credibility" on budget deficits because George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan ran big deficits You are ...
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Budget Non-Sequiturs
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com —
This is how politically correct the military has
become. This is why jihadist like Hasan are given...
a pass. This is the sorry state of affairs when it comes to fighting the terrorists.Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists ...
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Capture A Terrorist, Go To Jail
americanthinker.com - 2 days ago
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americanthinker.com —
Is there any doubt that the ADL has
become an adjunct of the DNC? The Anti-Defamation League...
pushes a leftist agenda in the guise of fighting anti-Semitism and bigotry.
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Anti-Defamation League runs interference for anti-Israel ...
politicalbyline.com - 2 days ago
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Not to sound like the eternal skeptic here;
but something about this story sounds very fishy. I...
mean, I can understand a death — but a terrorist reporting someone punching him in the mouth strikes me as not being true. Something is fishy here. Not to mention Fox News’s god-awful headline ...
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Navy Seals in trouble over supposedly punching a ...
mudvillegazette.com - 2 days ago
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mudvillegazette.com —
WaPo : Phillip Carter, who was appointed deputy
assistant secretary of defense for detainee policy in April,...
said in a brief telephone interview that he was leaving for "personal and family reasons" and not because of any policy differences with the administration. He tendered his resignation ...
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Moving on
riehlworldview.com - 2 days ago
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riehlworldview.com —
For family and personal reasons? Yeah, I think
I might question the timing just a bit. h/t...
Danger Room on Twitter . A key official in the Obama administration's effort to remake detention policy and close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay has ...
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Key Official On Guantanamo Closing Resigns
gatewaypundit.firstthings.com - 2 days ago
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Unbelievable. Three navy seal heroes face court-martial after
capturing the Al-Qaeda leader who murdered four Blackwater USA...
security guards in Fallujah in 2004. The Al-Qaeda leader had a bloody lip when he was arrested. The USA Blackwater guards were burned, beaten, dragged through the ...
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Unreal. Navy Seals Face Court-Martial After Capturing ...
reportonarrakis.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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reportonarrakis.blogspot.com —
Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the
most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind...
of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And for their trouble, three of the SEALs, members of the ...
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This is so effed up. Navy Seals face charges for ...
miamiherald.com - 2 days ago
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The Pentagon's top detainee affairs policy appointee has
quit the Defense Department just seven months into the...
job, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. Phillip Carter, a former Army captain and Iraq War veteran, had been an outspoken critic of ...
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Detainee policy appointee quits Pentagon post
faustasblog.com - 2 days ago
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Via Michael Goldfarb , you would think the
US is monitoring a kindergarten playground instead of fighting...
a war: Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the ...
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Marines to be charged for capturing top terrorist
hotair.com - 2 days ago
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Way, waaay too good to check . [...]
Read the rest »...
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Celebrity news of the day: Angelina Jolie thinks Obama’s ...
notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com —
David Brooks Dana Milbank " This is what
happens as nations grow wealthier; they use money to...
buy civilization." - David Brooks Besides trying to initiate the next step of trust between the Palestinian Authority and Israel with the exchange of prisoners for Israeli Sargent Gilad Shalit, ...
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Is American Military Composed of Martians?, GOP's New 10 ...
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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Unbelievable : Navy SEALs have secretly captured one
of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the...
alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told ...
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Obama is Prosecuting Navy Seals for giving a Most Wanted ...
motherjones.com - 2 days ago
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Matt Yglesias writes about the routine use of
the filibuster and other delaying tactics in Congress: It...
s worth emphasizing how one-sided efficacious minority party obstruction has been. The Bush administration wasn t able to get its agenda through ...
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The New Obstruction
telegraph.co.uk - 3 days ago
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Officials discussed toppling Saddam Hussein in 2001 but
rejected a policy of "regime change" as illegal, Iraq...
war inquiry told.
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Iraq inquiry: Britain rejected regime change as illegal ...
liberalvaluesblog.com - 3 days ago
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liberalvaluesblog.com —
George Bush took advantage of the 9/11 attack
to invade Iraq even though there was no connection....
There has already been considerable evidence that Bush and other neoconservatives had wanted to invade Iraq long before the 9/11 attack and ceased upon this as an excuse. The Times of London ...
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Bush Discussed Invasion of Iraq With British Officials ...
timesonline.co.uk - 3 days ago
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US ‘drumbeats’ about Iraq invasion were heard months
before 9/11...
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US ‘drumbeats’ about Iraq invasion were heard months ...
commentarymagazine.com - 3 days ago
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I recently chatted with some U.S. Army Special
Forces troops who had served last year in Afghanistan....
Green Berets are usually gung-ho, but these guys seemed a bit worn down and pessimistic about the situation. They complained that Afghan troops ...
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One Word from Obama Can Rejuvenate Troop Morale — “Victory”
news.antiwar.com - 3 days ago
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news.antiwar.com —
White House officials announced today that President Barack
Obama will address the nation on December 1 to...
unveil his new Afghanistan escalation strategy , putting an end to months of speculation and allowing NATO to approve its own escalation later ...
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Obama Plans 34K More Troops for Afghanistan -- News ...
thehill.com - 3 days ago
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thehill.com —
A conservative Republican came to President Obama's defense
over Afghanistan last night, urging Obama to take his...
time on a decision to send more troops. "I personally am not upset that it has taken President Obama this long to determine his response ...
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Rohrabacher defends Obama on Afghanistan
thinkprogress.org - 3 days ago
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thinkprogress.org —
In April 2007, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(D-NV) said that the war in Iraq was “...
lost ” and that the surge was “not accomplishing anything.” Conservatives and war hawks ripped into Reid for the comment, calling it ...
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Fred Thompson Declares The War In Afghanistan ‘Has Been ...
longwarjournal.org - 3 days ago
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longwarjournal.org —
US intelligence officials are concerned that Syria is
becoming an al Qaeda haven, as the terror group...
becomes increasingly intertwined with Ba’athist groups operating from Iraq's neighbor to the west. Al Qaeda has refocused its efforts to build an ...
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Eastern Syria becoming a new al Qaeda haven
blackfive.net - 3 days ago
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Unless this guy shows up with multiple compound
fractures caused by the repeated use of a chunk...
of rebar long after he was in custody in the rear, I will go on record as saying I don't give a f**k. Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most ...
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SEALs face charges for WTF?
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 3 days ago
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A good government group is calling on the
State Department to investigate the role of former ambassador...
Peter Galbraith in drafting Iraq's constitution in 2005 while he held a lucrative stake in a Kurdish oil field. The letter from Citizens for ...
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CREW Calls On State Dept. To Probe Galbraith Over ...
nytimes.com - 3 days ago
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nytimes.com —
LONDON A long-awaited inquiry into Britain ’s
role in the Iraq war began on Tuesday and...
immediately homed in on the question that seems set to dominate its work: whether the former prime minister, Tony Blair , and his government were drawn into the ...
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Britain Begins Hearings in Iraq War Inquiry
iraqinquiry.org.uk - 3 days ago
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iraqinquiry.org.uk —
Video info Now showing Direct feed from the
public hearing We are currently experiencing some technical problems...
with the direct feed. Video player The video requires Adobe Flash player. More videos Written transcript
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Iraq Inquiry
corner.nationalreview.com - 3 days ago
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corner.nationalreview.com —
Here is one more e-mail about PTSD and
the Hasan shooting. Sorry I'm so tardy posting it,...
but I recommend reading the blog post that's linked in the email (warning: salty language). Mr Lowry, I am a wounded Iraq War Vet. I lost my ...
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Subject: Thoughts from a Walter Reed Patient with PTSD ...
scripting.com - 3 days ago
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scripting.com —
I assumed that because we elected Obama to
end the war in Iraq that it went without...
saying that the war in Afghanistan would be ended as well. Apparently not so. The President is now considering an escalation of the war in Afghanistan. I can't ...
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No escalation in Afghanistan
washingtonindependent.com - 3 days ago
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washingtonindependent.com —
Reid Wilson has the first look at a
resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim...
Bopp, author of the infamous “socialist” resolution, that would aim to prevent future NY-23 disasters by requiring that candidates agree to at ...
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An RNC Purity Test? « The Washington Independent
themoderatevoice.com - 3 days ago
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themoderatevoice.com —
WASHINGTON — When there is no good solution
to a problem, a president has three options. One...
is to avoid the problem. The second is to pick the least bad of the available options. The third is to mix and match among the proposed solutions and minimize the long-term damage any decision ...
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Obama’s Third Afghan Way (Guest Voice)
abcnews.go.com - 4 days ago
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said any new U.S.
forces President Barack Obama sends to Afghanistan could move...
into the country swiftly, despite logistical hassles that force almost all major deliveries of troops and supplies to go by air. His ...
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Gates Says Afghan Surge Could Happen Swiftly
usatoday.com - 4 days ago
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usatoday.com —
Mohammed al-Rubaiee, 30, a Shiite in southwest Baghdad,
will marry his Sunni neighbor Taghreed al-Samaraee, 21, Friday....
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Iraq offers incentive to intermarry
abcnews.go.com - 4 days ago
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abcnews.go.com —
Hot off his historic inauguration, President Barack Obama
quickly turned his focus to drawing down troops in...
Iraq. The president met with Wednesday afternoon with close advisers on his first day in office to consider complex questions surrounding ...
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Obama and Advisers Talk Iraq Drawdown
query.nytimes.com - 4 days ago
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query.nytimes.com —
Even as the Pentagon is mulling plans to
begin reducing the number of American combat troops in...
Iraq and Afghanistan next spring, the military has more than $1.2 billion in construction under way or on the drawing board to upgrade 16 air bases ...
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Pentagon Construction Boom Beefs Up Mideast Air Bases
