Tag: iraq
member name: Shava Nerad
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May 13, 2006 03:22 AM EDT --
Have you noticed how rarely it is that we see scenes of natural beauty from war zones? If you saw more images of beauty from Iraq, would you feel that the people there might have more to lose?
What are . . .
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June 15, 2006 01:06 PM EDT --
Last month, I commented on how rarely we hear about the reality on the ground in Iraq, nature, the land, the beauty of the place. Today Here and Now featured the blog Birding Babylon. How wonderful! . . .
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April 16, 2006 12:19 AM EDT --
Remember the Pentagon Papers? Some senator from Alaska had the balls to read a classified document, word for word, into the Congressional Record, and all hell broke loose . Remember some guy . . .
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April 12, 2006 08:33 AM EDT --
Cheney to Bush: Yes, sir, don't you remember telling me to give
those documents out?
Bush: No, I don't really...
Cheney: I was feeling restless, you were impatient, . . .
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January 29, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Popular movements have changed significantly since earlier decades -- and I'm not talking about the 60's. In the 30's and 40's and before, the labor movement was a significant power . . .
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February 14, 2007 11:52 PM EST --
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that . . .
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February 22, 2006 11:58 AM EST --
In a controversial essay in this week's Sunday New York Times Magazine, neoconservative historian and architech Frances Fukuyama apologizes for neoconservatism as a failed experiment:
Radical Islamism . . .
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March 24, 2006 12:28 PM EST --
In this Miami Herald op/ed, Walter Cronkite urges Americans to go see Why We Fight:
In my February 1968 broadcast, I called the position of Vietnam a stalemate.
I'm not sure ''stalemate'' . . .
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December 16, 2005 09:11 AM EST --
This week, some have been comparing Bush's low approval ratings to Richard Nixon's, shortly before that beleaguered president resigned. Lubbock, Texas calls him the worst president of this . . .
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February 25, 2006 12:05 PM EST --
In a pithy piece titled It Didn't Work in the National Review, Bill Buckley mourns Iraq's lack of self-reliance, staunch old-time conservative that he is:
Our mission has failed because . . .
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March 23, 2006 11:47 AM EST --
When questioned by Helen Thomas, George Bush justifies going to war on video, extemporaneously.
Bush notes that he didn't want to go to war; that presidents never want to go to . . .
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February 16, 2006 11:42 PM EST --
Residents of Fallujah, lead by Cultural House, are organizing an effort to plant 250,000 olive trees around the city to promote peace and understanding, reports Reuters.
The first trees were planted . . .
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March 08, 2006 04:05 PM EST --
Go read it. You need a chuckle.
God: I've lost faith in Blair
All the signs are that the Almighty is unhappy about efforts to implicate Him in the attack on Iraq
Terry Jones
Wednesday March . . .
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February 25, 2006 01:09 AM EST --
Read the whole article. I don't even need to comment on this...
Gonzales withholding Plame emails
by Jason Leopold
February 17, 2006
Sources close to the investigation into the leak of . . .
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March 21, 2006 12:47 AM EST --
In an understated but staggering article, Reuters reports that the US military has promised to moderate their policy of arresting and imprisoning journalists.
This policy left three Reuters reporters . . .
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March 24, 2006 02:23 AM EST --
Sometimes he makes me nuts, but today a friend forwarded this from The Borowitz Report, and it deserves to be framed:
CHENEY INVITES HELEN THOMAS ON HUNTING TRIP
Effort to Reach Out to White House Press . . .
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February 18, 2006 11:56 AM EST --
MUST READ!!! A columnist today took the Bush administration to task:
Why would future presidents ask [for authorization to go to war, or war powers], if the present administration successfully . . .
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May 29, 2007 02:37 AM EDT --
A new article in the Spring 2007 edition of Parameters, the US War College quarterly, identifies Qtubism as the root of islamo-fascist terrorism. I've written about this before but it bears . . .
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March 09, 2006 09:44 AM EST --
Eric L. asks, "What's eating Louis Farrakhan?" in another Gather.com article. His article basically reprints a brief release from the Jewish Anti-Defamation League.
If you go anywhere . . .
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March 15, 2006 04:24 PM EST --
The biggest budget ever for a Turkish film is paying off. Based on a real event in northern Iraq that lost us a lot of points with the Turks, this action film starts with a real event and spins off . . .
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