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While this will be impossible to beat into the grain of sand that serves as the community hive mind that is this administration, in this current situation, it's far more important to be right than first. The rush to open things, even "in phases", is...
by Sarkazein
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on Tue Apr 28, 2020 at 06:28 PM PDT
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The British paper The Independent reports that Afghan president Hamid Karzai will announce an official timetable for foreign troops to leave Afghanistan. The timetable, which Karzai has ...
by Th0rn
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on Sun Jul 18, 2010 at 09:40 PM PDT
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I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or ...
by Josh Mull
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on Wed Jul 07, 2010 at 03:42 PM PDT
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I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or ...
by Josh Mull
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on Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 04:13 PM PDT
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The peace movement, and the progressive blogosphere, can be very unpeaceful places, and it seems like I've spent the past day or two arguing with more people than I've communicated with pleasantly.
by David Swanson
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on Thu May 13, 2010 at 05:46 PM PDT
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I read up on the speech (I was away at the time and missed it) and I am undecided about the Afghanistan strategy. I think that if the timetable is adhered to as close as possible, then I'll be ...
by KingofSpades
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on Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 07:22 PM PST
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To all the haters out there saying that Barack Obama is getting us into another Vietnam with the Afghanistan troop buildup, you’re going to be feeling pretty embarrassed come tomorrow night. ...
by sabo53
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on Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 08:36 AM PST
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3 minutes a year. That seems to be what I'm averaging on national television. It's impossible to say it all, but this morning, I gave it my best shot on MSNBC. They solicited my reaction to the ...
by Dante Zappala
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on Fri Feb 27, 2009 at 08:29 AM PST
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Well folks, this is pretty big, if you ask me. The Iraqi cabinet has just forwarded to their Parliament a resolution agreeing to an SOFA with the US that calls for US troops to be out of all cities ...
by nailbender
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on Sun Nov 16, 2008 at 10:01 AM PST
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This is, actually, probably the hardest decision for me to make this cycle.
There is little question of the race's outcome, but I need to outline my reasoning, because I vocally ...
by blueskiesfalling
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on Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 09:51 AM PDT
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Hand it to the conservatives for hypocrisy. They are proven masters of the flip-flop. Recall the Bush/Cheney blowhard punditocracy and their defamation of Obama and the Dems as "surrender monkeys" ...
by Nomoreimperialism
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on Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 06:09 AM PDT
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This is going to be a quick diary. The narrative over the last few days has been a discussion of McCain's housing crisis, e.g. he doesn't remember how many houses he owns...it's that many....what a ...
by patriotgames
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on Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 11:14 AM PDT
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The U.S. and Iraq are close to an agreement to start removing troops from Iraq. This is something we have all been calling for and is also a key issue for Obama. While this falls short of Obama's ...
by ctexrep
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on Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 06:01 AM PDT
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So Bush is about to "cut and run" :
U.S. and Iraqi negotiators reached agreement on ...
by wonkymuse
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on Thu Aug 21, 2008 at 04:02 AM PDT
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Does this finally make the point?
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will call on his fighters to ...
by Hjiorst
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on Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 08:40 AM PDT
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I didn't see this diaried yet, and I have yet to ever write a diary, so if I make mistakes, please forgive me.
U.S., Iraq Close to Pullout ...
by NDakotaDem
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on Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 10:03 AM PDT
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The authors STEPHEN BIDDLE, MICHAEL E. O’HANLON and KENNETH M. POLLACK published an Op-Ed in today's NYT which argues that we ...
by sjbob
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on Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 12:10 PM PDT
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What do 265 million dollars, international rock stardom and an unprecedented first in American politics
amount to? A single digit lead in the polls to a 71 year old who is politically similar to the ...
by Sai Medi
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on Thu Jul 31, 2008 at 08:59 PM PDT
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Well, with all the shaking out here in Los Angeles (I've been in every on of them since the Bakersfield earthquake in 1949, and this was nothing), I know this is not earth-shattering but McFlip-flop ...
by larbabe
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on Tue Jul 29, 2008 at 01:04 PM PDT
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I'm sure most of you saw Jed's amazing film last week entitled "John McCain's Neverending War in Iraq". I was truly caught off guard by the wealth of footage that Jed unearthed, charting McCain's ...
by Buck Power
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on Mon Jul 28, 2008 at 07:47 AM PDT
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