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War & Politics

Feb 7, 2010: THE COST OF EMPIRE: The Budget Deficit Can Only Be Controlled When American Military Intervention Abroad Retrenches
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According to a report in the February 7th New York Times, President Obama’s proposed budget for the 2011 fiscal year has an estimated $1.267 trillion budget deficit – and that probably is based upon some hopeful economic assumptions. It is...

Dec 28, 2009: Do You Remember Eugene Hasenfus?
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I highly recommend a December 27, 2009, post at Daily Kos headlined “Blast from the Past. Gene Hasenfus: December 1986.” It is about an event I’d forgotten about but readily recalled once I read the article, which notes that: Twenty-three...

Dec 30, 2005: President Bush Faces a War Within the War
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While so much of public debate has focused on whether the United States is winning the war against the predominantly Sunni insurgency, only a few commentators have noticed that another war in Iraq is in the early stages: the war...

Dec 30, 2005: Is Farris Hassan Brave or a Fool?
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As Jamie Malernee and Kevin Smith note in their December 28, 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinel report on 16-year-old, American-born Farris Hassan's venture to Iraq alone, "The (U.S.) State Department bluntly warns Americans not to travel to Iraq." You can imagine...

Dec 18, 2005: Iraqi Election Winners Will Still Depend on U.S.
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Washington Post Reporter Robin Wright has concluded that. "Whoever the winners turn out to be in last week's election [in Iraq], they will still rely heavily on the United States as a broker next year-- in helping to form a...

Dec 17, 2005: Mr. Bush Wants His Patriot Act Renewed
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PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH is pissed that a few senators, both Democrats and Republicans, have finally gotten some balls and are not rubber stamping the "House of Representatives' reauthorization of the Patriot Act." Our president said in his December 17,...

Dec 16, 2005: Majority in the House Commit to 'achieving victory' in Iraq
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The U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution today committing the body to President George W. Bush's goal of "achieving victory" in Iraq, according to The Associated Press (AP) and other news outlets. The roll call vote was 279-109 "A...

Dec 16, 2005: House Version of Renewed USA Patriot Act Rejected in the Senate
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Senate majority leader Bill Frist of Tennessee and other supporters of renewing certain provisions of the USA Patriot Act suffered what The New York Times called "a stinging defeat in the Senate today, falling well short of the 60 votes...

Dec 16, 2005: A Transcript of Bush's Meeting With Warner and McCain on Torture
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Here is a White House transcript of U.S. President George W. Bush's December 15, 2005 welcome of Senator John Warner, Republican of Virginia, and Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, to the Oval Office to discuss torture and interrogation. Mr....

Dec 16, 2005: Los Angeles Times: 'McCain Held All the Cards, So Bush Folded
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Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times' Washington Bureau contends that, "by refusing to agree to an all-out ban on the torture of terrorist suspects held in U.S. custody, President Bush in recent months was triggering political problems for his...