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Bush negotiating in secret for permanent bases in Iraq

Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:40 PM
Contrary to the will of the American people, the US Congress, the Iraqi parliament , the Iraqi president, and the Iraqi people, George Bush is engaged in secret negotiations with Iraqi president Nouri al-Maliki to establish fifty permanent US military
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Does Bush think the Secretary of Defense is an appeaser?

Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:57 PM
Yesterday, President Bush delivered a speech in Israel in which he called "appeasers" anyone who advocates talks with Iran. He even drew an explicit parallel to 1930's-era Nazi appeasers : "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with terrorists
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Quote of the day (on Iraq)

Sunday, April 13, 2008 7:13 PM
The quote of the day comes from today's NYT editorial : We believe that the fight against Al Qaeda is the central battle for this generation, but Mr. Bush’s claim that Iraq is the main front is wrong. That is Afghanistan, and the United States is in real
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Petraeus shills for Bush again

Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:19 PM
General David Petraeus gave one of his patented dog-and-pony shows before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, in which he suggested that the administration's failed strategy in Iraq should be given even more time to continue failing : Telling Congress
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Survey of US military brass says US forces "stretched dangerously thin" by Iraq

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:48 PM
Foreign Policy has conducted a survey of current and retired senior military officers, asking for their opinions on the current state of US forces. The results are disturbing . First, a note about those surveyed: In all, more than 3,400 officers holding
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In which I engage in wild speculation on Bush, Iran, Iraq, and the NIE

Tuesday, December 04, 2007 9:46 PM
For the last couple of years, the neocons and their puppets have been shouting about the dangers allegedly posed by Iran and its oh-so-scary nuclear program. Just two months ago, President Bush said this about the threat that Iran's nuclear program represented
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The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month

Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:00 AM
Almost all of modern history has transpired as the result of a single gunshot fired in Sarajevo in 1914. When the Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Hapsburg Archduke Ferdinand, Bismarck's famous prediction came true: that a catastrophic
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Second verse, same as the first

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:27 PM
From ABC , via HuffPo : Tucked inside the White House's $196 billion emergency funding request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is an item that has some people wondering whether the administration is preparing for military action against Iran. The
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Bush's saber-rattling on Iran

Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:10 PM
President Bush gave a speech before the American Legion today (perhaps one of his few remaining supportive audiences) in which he begged for patience on "progress" in Iraq. He ran through a dingy, moldy laundry list of reasons why we should stay in Iraq,
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Venezuela and Iran team up

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:40 PM
Well, this certainly isn't a good sign : Venezuela and Iran are forging closer oil ties in hopes of reducing their dependence on the United States, inking a $4 billion deal to develop a block of the lucrative Orinoco Reserve in Venezuela. According to
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A voice of reason, but a little late

Sunday, June 10, 2007 7:59 PM
Colin Powell appeared on Meet The Press today; during his appearance, he said the following (via Think Progress ): I think it is short-sighted not to talk to Syria and Iran and everybody else in the region. [...] And if it was up to me, I would close
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W's chest-thumping episode

Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:12 PM
Conservative pin-up girl Georgie Anne Geyer wrote this on the origins of terrorism and Bush's disjointed state of mind on the subject (via Firedoglake ): And so, on the one hand, you have weakened societies vulnerable to the "new answers" of "new insurgencies,"
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Condi sez we won't leave Iraq

Tuesday, May 08, 2007 9:38 PM
From True Blue Liberal : In an interview last night on the Charlie Rose Show, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pointedly said, “[O]ur friends in the [Middle East] need to know and the Iraqis need to know that we are not looking to leave Iraq.” “Ever?”
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Isn't the Cold War over?

Monday, April 23, 2007 6:31 PM
Just who exactly are we arming against with this ridiculous missle shield boondoggle ? It's one thing to waste $10 billion a year quixotically developing a missile-defense system; President Bush clearly announced from the get-go that he was determined
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The continuing mess in Iraq

Sunday, April 22, 2007 9:41 PM
The US started construction of a wall in Baghdad to try and separate Sunnis from Shi'ites in a mixed neighborhood, in a vain attempt to stop them from killing each other. So, naturally, the Prime Minister of Iraq ordered a halt to the construction of the wall, while pronouncing that Iraq is not in fact embroiled in a civil war. I guess the wall would have been too close to an admission that the US experiment in gunbarrel democracy is a complete failure.
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