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Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan was considered one of President Bush's most loyal aides, but his new tell-all memoir is less than flattering of his former boss and the administration.
Among McClellan's revelations:
• Says Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell...
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The war in Iraq has now lasted 5 years.
We talked to the parents of Bakersfield's Clay Farr, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.
Watch a video of President Bush's words and views from the last 5 years of war.
Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq in a speech he delivered this morning.
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The Surge in Iraq: One Year Later
by Lt. Gen. Raymond T Odierno
Heritage Lecture #1068
I returned from Iraq a little over two weeks ago, and trust me, it's great to be in Washington and in your company today. After...
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How badly is the war in Iraq going? Well, the U.S. Army, despite its Herculean efforts, continues to miss its recruiting targets. And the ones who are signing up for a tour of duty tend to be less educated and poorer, with fewer choices. Increasingly, with warfare becoming more and more high...
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Latest from FactCheck:
Stuck in Iraq?
September 27, 2007
Democratic candidates are pinned down on how quickly they would bring troops home from Iraq. The front-runners said it could take them years.
Summary
The latest Democratic presidential debate brought into sharp focus the...
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When America’s military landed in Iraq in 2003, their first concern was securing the Oil fields and the Oil Ministry. The thought never occurred to the Generals evidently that the birthplace of humankind’s history was right under their noses in the museums of Iraq and the...
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Petraeus' first job in Iraq was to train the Iraqi army. He failed miserably at that task, so why would anyone think he could run an entire war successfully? From Alternet:
The occupation set out to rebuild the Iraqi Army and Police. So they could stand up and we could stand down.
The man...
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Over the summer, we posed this question to the community — and specifically asked several parents of soldiers serving in Iraq.
We received a ton of responses at the Your Words site: http://people.bakersfield.c...
On Sunday, The Bakersfield Californian will print...
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I've been hearing a little bit of buzz regarding a speech Newt Gingrich gave this past week in which he said, "We are engaged in a phony war". When this quote is put into context it makes a little bit more sense so I have posted a link where you can view some of his...
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The National Intelligence Estimate has been released. You can view it here. A few tidbits are:
Al-Qa’ida is and will remain the most serious terrorist threat to the Homeland... We assess the group has protected or regenerated key elements of its Homeland attack capability, including: a...
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Dear Dusty,
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) has an op-ed in today's Washington Post expressing his and Senator Jack Reed's (D-RI) support for a timetable to end the war in Iraq with a firm end date. This is an important step by both of my colleagues. Both Senators previously had...
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Marylee's column is not posted on her Right Thinking blog site, which is hosted the Californian. I wanted to write and congratulate her for not insulting any one in her editorial journalism assignment for this week, she had really nothing to say, so she filled the entire length of the B1...
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Evidently the Iraq PM can't make up his mind about how good his Army is. My earlier post was today's remarks at a press conference. This article from CBS, via RawStory, has Maliki fearful of a coup:
Iraqi PM al-Maliki told Lara Logan of CBS Evening News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday...
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Of course not, don't be silly! But this article does have a rich quote from Maliki:
"I cannot answer on behalf of the U.S. administration but I can tell you that from our side our forces will be ready by June 2007," Maliki told ABC television after meeting President Bush on Thursday...
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From Pew Research Center
May 29, 2007
The U.S. public remains enthusiastic about the bipartisan proposals
Four months after the bipartisan Iraq Study Group proposed a number of new policy options for dealing with the Iraq conflict, these proposals remain broadly popular with the public.
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From ConsortiumNews:
By Robert Parry
May 30, 2007
It’s an old military adage that bad intel can get soldiers killed, but it now turns out that false talking points may be even more lethal, a lesson that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney continue to teach the world as the death toll mounts...
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From The Seattle Times:
SEATTLE, Washington - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson said in Seattle on Thursday that fellow party leaders in Congress are wrong to abandon a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq and wrong about an immigration bill that he said would split up families....
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From David Sirota:
By David Sirota
Today was a dark day in our nation's history. That sounds melodramatic - but it is true. Today America watched a Democratic Party kick them square in the teeth - all in order to continue the most unpopular war in a generation at the request of the most...
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From SFGate:
Stewart M. Powell, Hearst Newspapers
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
(05-22) 04:00 PDT Washington -- The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday.
The...
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From AP wire:
Iraq's military is drawing up plans to cope with any quick U.S. military pullout, the defense minister said Monday, as a senior American official warned that the Bush administration may reconsider its support if Iraqi leaders don't make major reforms by fall.
The U.S....
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From IraqSlogger:
Baghdad, May 20, (VOI) -The new draft oil law has sparked heated controversy in Iraqi political circles, with some parliamentarians ruling out the possibility of passing it in its current wording which stipulates that oil revenues should be distributed according to the...
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From the NYT:a short excerpt of their article:
Casualties among private contractors in Iraq have soared to record levels this year, setting a pace that seems certain to turn 2007 into the bloodiest year yet for the civilians who work alongside the American military in the war zone, according...
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And by no cajones, I mean the 20 Democrats that voted against the Feingold-Reid resolution that would effectively end most U.S. combat operations in Iraq by next April. Their amendment won the votes of 28 Democrats and one independent. But support for the Feingold-Reid measure, which followed a...
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From The Progressive:
Tim Coil served in the first Gulf War and now suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
On March 12, he and his wife, Yvette, went to the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library in Ohio. At 37, she is a student at Kent State and needed to study for a biology test. Tim, 40, was...
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From ABC News:
Iraq's interior ministry has decided to bar news photographers and camera operators from the scenes of bomb attacks, operations director Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf said on Sunday (local time).
His announcement was the latest in a series of attempts to curtail press...
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IN SECOND PRO-MILITARY AD FOR VOTEVETS.ORG SERIES, FORMER COMMANDER IN IRAQ, MAJOR GENERAL (ret.) PAUL D. EATON DECLARES, "MR PRESIDENT, YOU WEREN'T LISTENING... YOU'RE STILL NOT LISTENING... IF YOU WON'T LISTEN, CONGRESS MUST."
Major General (ret.) Paul D. Eaton is the second former...
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The anti-war veterans group, VoteVets.org, which has been influential with Capitol Hill Democrats, is launching a half-million-dollar TV ad campaign featuring Major General John Batiste (Ret.), former commanding general of the first infantry division in Iraq. The ad begins with a clip of...
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From the Guardian:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Republican leader said Sunday that GOP support could waver if President Bush's Iraq war policy does not succeed by the fall.
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Bush's troop increase deserves a chance and should be funded even if...
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From the Wall Street Journal..a right-leaning member of the media if there every was one:
U.S. Soldiers Persevere
Despite Snipers, Ambush;
Fighting for Each Other
TARMIYAH, Iraq -- For U.S. troops, just walking a simple foot patrol through this small, trash-strewn city 30 miles north of...
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From MSNBC:
The Democratic-controlled House failed Wednesday to override President Bush’s veto of an Iraqi war spending bill with timetables for troop withdrawals.
The 222-203 vote, far short of the two-thirds majority needed for a veto override, occurred just ahead of a White House...
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The military man who was running the Iraq War Show for over two years got kicked upstairs to the Army Chief of Staff. Now, I don't know about you, my dear reader, but I think Casey did a very lousy job running the War.
He has stated to the press and his own 'people' that he doesn't want to...
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He writes a drive-by hit on Bush and the big Dick Cheney. He whines, he points his pudgy finger at the White House that they have tossed him under the bus. Where is their loyalty he cries?
But, he also took the hit for Bush when it all came down about the yellowcake and those 16 little words...
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From CBSNews:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has already answered the questions she has been subpoenaed to answer before a U.S. congressional committee and suggested she is not inclined to comply with the order.
Rice said she would respond by mail to questions from...
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From MSNBC:
WASHINGTON - A defiant Democratic-controlled Senate passed legislation Thursday that would require the start of troop withdrawals from Iraq by Oct. 1, propelling Congress toward a historic veto showdown with President Bush on the war.
The 51-46 vote was largely along party lines,...
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From TO:
The unfolding civil war and inter-sectarian violence in Iraq is deepening a humanitarian crisis of refugees, a Congressional Research Service Report has found. The report, entitled "Iraqi Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: A Deepening Humanitarian Crisis?"...
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From WaPo:
The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job, according to people...
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The Republicans finally gave in and allowed the debate to commence. By a vote of 89-9, the Senate spent all morning debating the issue. You can watch it on Cspan tomorrow, its over for today. Forty Republicans, 47 Democrats and two independents voted to begin debate, while nine Republicans...
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This morning in my email I had a letter from a group of Democrats..to be more precise..the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC.
Now, I signed up for their emails only to be informed as to what this heinous group of ner-do-well's and all around special interest kinda guys and...
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I took part in an online conference call Tuesday with the progressivestates.org committee and Senator Ted Kennedy. There were also several state legislators on the call as well. CA has two bills working their way through the State legislature, one in the assembly and one in the Senate.
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This is a debate we have needed for quite sometime from our legislative leaders. Cspan has it online in radio format. It only works if you use Internet Explorer..apparently they aren't friends of Firefox.
If you wish to listen you can click the link here. Its also live on Cspan if you wish to...
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A truck driver who had just cleared a US checkpoint in Iraq as part of a convey, turned around and was going back to his original starting point when US troops fired on his truck, killing him. Per the CNN article:
"Tolfree drove through a U.S. military checkpoint before realizing he was in...
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If you aren't familiar with Lt. Watada, he refused to go to Iraq stating the war was illegal and if he went, he would be guilty of war crimes. Watada is the first commissioned officer in the U.S. armed forces to publicly refuse deployment to Iraq.
His trial started Monday and by Wednesday..the...
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Reuters has an article up here about it. A short blurb:
"A former Defense Department contractor was sentenced on Monday to nine years in prison and ordered to forfeit $3.6 million for his role in a bribery and fraud scheme involving contracts to reconstruct Iraq, U.S. officials...
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For all the posturing and politicking that goes on inside and outside the beltway, the recent visit to Iraq by Nancy Pelosi and a group of democrats seems to bear out what many on the left have been saying for awhile...the Iraqi's want us out sooner than later.
This article in the LAT has...
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Channel 4 News out of Britain has a video report on Iraqi soldiers beating an individual on the streets of Baghdad. US Soldiers sat in their vehicle and observed this activity. They even commented to the reporters that the individual was receiving a "Rodney King" style beating.
When...
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It looks like the President has already begun to implement his New Way Forward, which looks remarkably like the old way. Since we've had a surge in troop levels 5 times already, I'm not sure what this one hopes to accomplish. But the more important aspect was that everyone had decided...
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I was made aware of this man by a blogger I read named Brad. Malachi took his own life on November 3rd of this year, by immolating himself next to the 25-foot sculpture “The Flame of the Millennium” in Chicago. Lying next to his remains was a simple, homemade sign, which said,...
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The British Channel4.com News folks have put themselves in harms way over in Iraq to get out a story that is worth the 47 minutes of your life you will spend watching it.
It's sad that we have to get this kind of information from a foreign country, our MSM doesn't seem to want to provide...
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