Tag: iraq occupation
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April 20, 2008 12:08 PM EDT --
I still have my doubts about the American People's ability to accept reality in Iraq. There are two news stories in this area of gullibility and propaganda that allow me to apply this notion . . .
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October 01, 2008 04:28 PM EDT --
"And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher . . .
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February 11, 2007 10:15 PM EST --
JUDGE DECLARES A MISTRIAL
Lt. Watada's court martial came to an abrupt halt on Wednesday, February 7th, when the military judge nullifed the Stipulation of Facts accepted by the prosecution . . .
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July 21, 2008 10:03 PM EDT --
Obama finally took John McCain's advice and hopped a plane to Iraq and Afghanistan. But did it make the Republicans happy that he did? Nope.
A couple of McCain surrogates popped off on cue. Joe . . .
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May 12, 2007 09:57 PM EDT --
Okay, it has been another problematic week in Iraq. Another ambush, and this time three soldiers are absent and presumed abducted. Borrowing a tactic from Hezbollah, huh? An ugly reality of insurgency . . .
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June 02, 2007 10:58 AM EDT --
You are probably all aware of the May number: 126 Americans killed in Iraq. But were you aware that at least 2155 Iraqis were killed in the same period? This brings us to the debate topic of the . . .
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June 11, 2007 07:41 PM EDT --
Just when it seems it cannot get messier in Iraq, it always finds a way to get messier.
Item 1:
The American military is undertaking a limited and gingerly effort to arm Sunnis who indicate willingness . . .
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July 04, 2007 08:28 PM EDT --
I have been watching the History Channel all day. I made the mistake of starting to watch their series on the American Revolution, and I got hooked. We just arrived at the surrender of Cornwallis . . .
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August 12, 2007 10:00 AM EDT --
It is regrettable that it has gone down this way. One element of the Iraq occupation is the large number of U.S. security guards working there with little or no legal accountability. Their willingness . . .
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September 12, 2007 10:25 PM EDT --
I have gotten quite annoyed over the past few days about some of the crap being spouted here on Gather. Specifically, several posters have decried the anti-Bush vendetta of Senate and House Democrats, . . .
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November 16, 2007 01:18 PM EST --
Despite the fact that it is no longer much in the headlines, yes, we are still in Iraq. Are American casualties decreasing in Baghdad and in Anbar province? Yes. Celebrate if you want, I am all . . .
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March 10, 2008 09:30 PM EDT --
We are approaching another minor milestone in Iraq. We have suffered 3980 military deaths there, so another score of fatalities will put us at an even 4000.
A Vatican spokesman, Monsignor Gianfranco . . .
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March 26, 2008 08:06 PM EDT --
I am not being disloyal to the U.S. military here, because the U.S. military is not in this fight. Nouri al maliki, head of the Iraqi government, decided to take out the the Mehdi Army, the militia force . . .
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March 08, 2008 01:22 PM EST --
Good news: the 100 billion dollars in the tax rebate which you should see this summer will pay your increased costs to fuel your car this year.
Bad news: gasoline will probably still be over $3 a gallon . . .
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December 22, 2008 10:47 PM EST --
In a recent conversation here on Gather, I lamented the sorry state of Zimbabwe, which is experiencing starvation and a cholera epidemic while Robert Mugage, the 80-something year old ruler, composes . . .
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March 23, 2008 08:14 PM EDT --
It seems to boil down to a game of chicken.
On the one hand, the Bush administration keeps begging the Iraqi government to forge compromises between political factions and finally, after five long . . .
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March 24, 2008 07:52 PM EDT --
"One day, people will look back at this moment in history and say, 'Thank God there were courageous people willing to serve because they laid the foundation for peace for generations to come'. I . . .
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August 23, 2007 06:49 PM EDT --
The political games going on with respect to the Iraq occupation keep getting more surreal. In the wake of W's odd speech comparing Iraq to Vietnam, his relatively tiny base of support appeared to . . .
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July 21, 2008 03:08 PM EDT --
United Kingdom's Gordon Brown coming from a one day meeting with the Iraq Prime Minister agrees with the Barack Obama 16 month time table to withdraw troops from Iraq. It seems that everyone . . .
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August 31, 2007 03:37 PM EDT --
Sponsored by: 'Just Foreign Policy'
President Bush gave a major foreign policy speech this week, in which he escalated the confrontation with Iran.
Can you ask your Representative to oppose . . .
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