Tag: war policy
member name: Charlie D.
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July 03, 2007 06:58 PM EDT --
Several lists that I am a part of have
produced some eloquent haikus and
commentary about the anniversary of
the first atom bomb being dropped on
Hiroshima sixty years ago today. I am
not that eloquent, . . .
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August 21, 2007 06:49 PM EDT --
Yesterday, Senator Levin (D-MI) called for al-Maliki's
removal as Iraq's Prime Minister, stating that the Iraqi
government is "non-functional." Levin's suggestion
was that the Iraqi . . .
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August 19, 2007 11:43 PM EDT --
My friends on the American right continue
to insist that the war in Iraq is going well.
However, there are certain signs that continue
to make me wonder how true that it is in the
larger scheme of things. . . .
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September 09, 2007 08:58 PM EDT --
Yesterday, bitter fighting broke out in Karbala,
one of the Shiite "holy cities" presently full of
several "hundreds of thousands" of pilgrims.
Apparently, from fragmentary reports . . .
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September 09, 2007 09:06 PM EDT --
Over the months of this year and last, I've taken
a fair amount of heat for repeating stories by a
variety of folks about US (and/or Israeli) plans
to get at Iran by one process or another, usually . . .
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September 16, 2007 03:11 PM EDT --
The Iraq war will be 4.5 years old on Wednesday.
The much-vaunted report from General David
Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker about
the state of the war, and the state of Iraqi politics,
seems a very . . .
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September 16, 2007 11:18 PM EDT --
It has been noted that President Bush has
changed his rhetoric about Iraq from seeking
"victory" to gaining "success." Thinking
about that over the day, does "success"
mean . . .
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