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'New Middle East' sought by Rice may be too high a goal

Excerpt "'New Middle East' sought by Rice may be too high a goal"JERUSALEM // By broadly calling for "a new Middle East" yesterday rather than a quick cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel, Secretary...

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Talk is Cheap Cheney

(RE  NYTimes report about Cheney's Sunday appearance on "Meet the Press") Really, it's not his children dying for the diversion of war. Remember that Senator John Warner said that tyrants need war to...

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Will Charles Rangel Get "the Draft" Reinstalled?

Charles Babington's article is a perfect example of a normal report with strange insertions that make a person wonder if someone is forcing talking points into Washington Post articles. It would be...

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Top General: Army near breaking point, needs to grow

Excerpt Washington Post article "General Says Army Will Need To Grow": Warning that the active-duty Army "will break" under the strain of today's war-zone rotations, the nation's top Army general...

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Do Those Who Have Their Lives on the Line Matter to the Presidents "Men"?

Excerpt Washington Post article by Fred Hiatt "The Lives on the Line": The White House, which looks more desperate every time it tries to manufacture another outrage, pounced on Boxer for what...

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Is This What We are Turning Our Young People Into?

Please see National Affairs at Rolling Stone "Too Much Blood: What Has Iraq Done to Us?"

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Officials: Military is in "Death Spiral".

Please remember what these private communications have said because in a few days the Bush administration will trot out every general and other officer that they can get to pass their lies to directly...

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Some Oil Investors are Thinking We'll Attack Iran

Since we (here in the US) aren't allowed to bet online maybe the best place to look for clues to what will happen with Iran is the oil futures market which Business Week says will be going up and up...

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War Czar Wants to Consider a Draft to Rebuild Armed Forces

Excerpt Chicago Tribune's The Swamp : The general assigned this summer to the White House to serve as “War Czar,’’ overseeing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, said today that a military under the...

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Veteran: Army Re-enlistment Success Mostly Due to Stop-Loss Orders

 Excerpt NY Times OpEd by Will Bardenwerper "Party Here, Sacrifice Over There ":...the assertion that soldiers are cheerfully returning for multiple combat tours is grounded in statistics and arguments...

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Experts: Suitcase Nuke Not Likely Scenario

Excerpt UK Guardian report"Suitcase Nukes Said Unlikely to Exist ":Members of Congress have warned about the dangers of suitcase nuclear weapons. Hollywood has made television shows and movies about...

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Is the US Preparing for a Draft? To My Readers Seeking More Information,...

To head off the trolls who always claim that Democrats want a draft because of the protest movement before the invasion of Iraq where Congressionals posed as wanting a draft to get Americans to think...

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John McCain Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran

 I hope he passed some nasty germs onto that nasty right wing "convenient question troll" to whom he passed the microphone.  

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