Obama's War
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Just two months after the twin towers fell, the armies of the Northern
Alliance marched into Kabul. The Taliban fled. The triumph was total in the
"splendid little war" that had cost one U.S. casualty. Or so it seemed. Yet,
last month, the war against the Taliban entered its eighth year, the second
longest war in our history, and America and NATO have never been nearer to
strategic defeat.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21496.htm
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Iraq: Coup Plot Foiled?
US Fires on Fallujah Shoe-Throwers
By Juan Cole
The news from Iraq on Wednesday shows that the Iraqi government's hold on
power is fragile, and that it faces shadowy coup plotters from within and a
continued guerrilla insurgency from without.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21493.htm
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Dick Cheney's Fantasy World
By Scott Ritter
Despite the facts, the vice-president still insists that Saddam Hussein
could have produced weapons of mass destruction.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21494.htm
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Should Dick Cheney Be Hanged?
By Rachel Maddow Video And Transcript
We hanged people for waterboarding as a war crime, in Dick Cheney's
lifetime. With that is as the historical context, the vice president cavalierly
told ABC News that he specifically approved that same technique being used
against the prisoner named Khalid Sheikh Mohammad.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21495.htm
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Iraqi Shoe Thrower Prompts Racist Rant From Bill O'Reilly
By RNIF
First he says that the shoe thrower is evidence of the ingratitude,
"violence" and "irrational thinking" in the "Arab world", before going to on
discuss the "danger from the Muslim world" and whether torture is the right way
to go about dealing with it. Note also the graphic shown at the beginning and
end of the segment of the American flag and a menacing, red-coloured star and
crescent.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21497.htm
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U.S. troops kill three sleeping Iraqi guards:
Trade Minister Abdulfalah al-Soodani has asked the troops for a formal
apology and compensation. "The minister (Soodani) denounces and condemns the
incident which has lead to the killing of three guards while they were asleep,"
the statement said.
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2008-12-18\kurd.htm
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Iraq ministry says employees killed in US raid:
The Iraqi government has accused U.S. forces of killing at least three
Trade Ministry employees in a pre-dawn raid on ministry property in Baghdad,
officials said on Thursday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LI576845.htm
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U.S. military's Iraq withdrawal plan differs from Obama's promise:
The plan will make the withdrawal at a slower pace than Obama promised
during the campaign, when he called for all combat troops to be out within 16
months -- by the summer of 2010.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/19/content_10527451.htm
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Foiled coup plot points to dark future for Iraq:
The chance that such a coup could have first succeeded and then maintained
itself in the long term is negligible. As long as U.S. forces remain in the
country, it would have had zero chance of succeedin
http://tinyurl.com/3j2nqm
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