Tag: iraq
group name: politicsjustice
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January 24, 2008 11:54 AM EST --
FALSE PRETENCES
CHARLES LEWIS and MARK READING-SMITH - The Center for Public Integrity.
(On The Center for Public Integrity site there . . . more
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April 28, 2008 01:02 PM EDT --
Until we focus on the real issues, instead of asking who's wearing a flag pin or blaming others for our problems (such as the "illegals" we hire and abuse), we will continue getting deeper . . . more
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July 26, 2007 10:28 PM EDT --
The war in Iraq is a clash of cultures, as Inside the Surge, a sober, low-key video film by Guardian photographer Sean Smith makes clear. http://www.guardian.co.uk/video/page/0,,2135293,00.html . . . more
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April 26, 2008 02:10 PM EDT --
This officer doesn't think so. Once again, because Gather lets me put links in comments, but not posts, because Gather software treats everyone differently, and I think it has Tourette's, I'll . . . more
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July 15, 2007 02:38 PM EDT --
Saddam was a very bad man. He was responsible for the deaths of a hell of a lot of his own folks. How many? Lots. Seriously, it’s hard to say. Nobody really knows. . . . more
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October 13, 2006 02:14 AM EDT --
More so than anywhere else in the world, American journalists and media outlets have an unprecedented ability to challenge their government. Interestingly enough none of these media outlets, particularly . . . more
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October 28, 2006 10:53 PM EDT --
Most political observers feel that next month's mid-term elections will be a referendum on Iraq, and even on the president's handling of that war. And considering the latest polling data, Republicans, . . . more
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October 10, 2006 11:41 PM EDT --
I really, really hope this number is incorrect. 600,000 souls. Six-hundred thousand lives snuffed out. And why? Ignorance? Pride? Hubris? I'm speechless.
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April 15, 2008 11:28 PM EDT --
John McCain is a hero for his defiant resistance of his captors as a prisoner of war, and for enduring the torture that Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and their despicable crowd of lawyers think . . . more
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October 15, 2006 06:21 PM EDT --
Each day that passes the fundamental contradictions of our society and its political institutions becomes more profound and fundamentally disturbing.
I recall a wise saying of one of our greatest . . . more
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October 03, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
According to the World Health Organization, 14 people have died of cholera in Iraq in the past six weeks. More than 2,200 cases have been reported in Kirkuk since mid-August and cases of the disease have . . . more
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April 16, 2008 06:27 PM EDT --
The role of the Roman Church by this Pope as he perceives it is now evident. Lecturing Muslims on their faith, he has demonstrated his vast knowledge of Christian theology . . . more
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September 03, 2007 10:23 AM EDT --
August 31, 2007
UN Observer
by Felicity Arbuthnot
"...A thousand years before the Mongol invasion, the [Middle East ] region had developed a “sophisticated civilisation” with “innovations . . . more
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June 14, 2007 08:55 PM EDT --
Teen actors moved by war denied a stage
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/319683_amy14.html
Last Sunday night, as millions of Americans tuned in to the two Tonys -- the final episode of "The . . . more
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January 31, 2007 01:44 PM EST --
Although I detest war, I can see that it is sometimes necessary in order to free people from oppressive governments. Think WWII. Hitler's legacy lives on today in countries here and there. . . . more
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September 09, 2007 03:50 AM EDT --
Several best-selling authors - well, in most of the world, if not the United States - were cited in the Osama bin Laden video , which at times resembled a "Foreign Policy 101 lecture . . . more
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June 26, 2007 09:38 AM EDT --
This poem by a 14 year-old Iranian , expresses the feeling of many Iranians about the US big-stick policy toward Afghanistan and Iraq. Titled "You See No One, You . . . more
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July 04, 2007 03:26 PM EDT --
Michael Gordon (NYT co-writer with Judith Miller on hyping the Iraq War ) has another blame and hate-Iran piece in NYT: U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.’s
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/world/middleeast/02cnd-iran.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=world&pagewanted=print . . . more
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July 13, 2007 10:53 PM EDT --
"The first clear signs that Gordon Brown will reorder Britain's foreign policy emerged last night when one of his closest cabinet allies urged the US to change its priorities and said a country's . . . more
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November 19, 2006 02:47 PM EST --
When it comes to the Iraq war, all Americans would like to see a positive outcome for the U.S., and for our troops to be able to come home sooner than later. But some people, including the Bush Administration . . . more
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