Tag: war
member name: Sean Paul Kelley
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July 14, 2006 05:23 PM EDT --
©This article copyright Sean-Paul Kelley
Since the war started we've been repeatedly told that we're building Iraqi schools, healthcare centers, and my personal favorite: turning the electricity . . .
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June 27, 2006 12:30 PM EDT --
I'll be back to blogging later today. I'm going to try and wrap up the last 100 or so pages of Ron Suskind's new book, "The One Percent Doctrine."
In the interim, from page 65, here's . . .
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July 04, 2006 09:33 PM EDT --
Interesting anecdote from this news story at the Columbus Dispatch.
At the end of the story is this graf:
The newly released Yearbook 2006 draws from data maintained by Sweden's Uppsala University. . . .
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February 03, 2007 07:06 PM EST --
. . . by anyone or any politician on Iran is contained in this one simple headline from today's Los Angeles Times:
U.S. can't prove Iran link to Iraq strife
Same goes for the nuke program. . . .
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May 16, 2007 01:17 PM EDT --
I had just assumed that upon the death of the last WWI combat veteran there would have been some mention of him in the major media, after all World War One was our official coming out party as a great . . .
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December 19, 2006 04:59 PM EST --
Many people have asked me, in the wake of my recent trip to Iran, “do last week’s elections really matter?” Today, as the results pour in, they’ve begun asking “how are the . . .
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January 12, 2009 10:51 PM EST --
Memo to President-Elect Obama:
"Now it is folly to go against men who could not be kept under even if conquered, while failure would leave us in a very different position from that which . . .
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June 30, 2006 01:13 AM EDT --
We're in a war right? And it is a war in the shadows right? It's also a long war, right?
So why is the military treating this shadowy, long war like it's just another day in the DoD bureaucracy? . . .
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November 29, 2006 04:54 PM EST --
Here's what Michael Ledeen, channeling Victor Davis Hanson, has to say about Iran:
I entirely agree with Victor that Iran and Syria are fragile, brittle, and anxious.
Anxious, not really. Most . . .
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June 30, 2006 04:31 PM EDT --
I'm appalled at what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians right now. What is happening right now is out of all proportion to anything the Palestinians did or possibly were planning to do. I watched . . .
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August 30, 2006 07:00 PM EDT --
For a nation at war the Israelis sure seem to criticize their leaders alot.
Aren't they supposed to just shut-up and do what Olmert says, like we're supposed to do here? Wasn't that what . . .
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September 03, 2006 03:06 PM EDT --
Which event do you think is more important to the history of Iraq?
This one:
Iraqi armed forces have arrested the No. 2 leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the country's national security leader said Sunday. . . .
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December 11, 2006 03:09 PM EST --
Did you know that Gen. Tommy Franks is raising money for the 'Tommy Franks Leadership Institute and Museum?'
Seriously. I'm not kidding.
As Bill Arkin says, "That retired Army General . . .
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December 14, 2006 06:24 PM EST --
Steve Clemon's has a whopper of a story today:
While reports of how far Bandar has gone in supporting Cheney's desire for military action vary, insiders report that Bandar has "essentially . . .
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January 26, 2007 08:14 PM EST --
TPM has this post and this post on the 'Decision Maker.'
Who knew he was taking grammar lessons? And this post at Corrente is a gem.
Meanwhile, here and here are the news articles on Bush's . . .
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June 13, 2006 01:50 PM EDT --
The day before yesterday and a few days before that I made allusions to and wrote about Dr. Brydon and what happened during the First Afghan War. In late 2001 I was pretty darn convinced that what is happening . . .
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December 03, 2006 02:54 PM EST --
Here's the lede:
President Bush and his top advisors fanned out across the troubled Middle East over the last week to showcase their diplomatic initiatives to restore strained relationships with . . .
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December 12, 2006 03:24 PM EST --
To Simon Rosenberg, NDN:
As you know I just returned from Iran a few weeks ago and have a decidedly different take on the general consensus concerning Iran, and a different take from your post.
I think . . .
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June 15, 2006 04:33 PM EDT --
Reciprocity? Shi'a and Sunni co-operation? Releasing prisoners from Abu Ghraib? Talks of clemency? Reconciliation? Amnesty for insurgents who've killed American troops? Can this be real?
This . . .
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June 30, 2006 12:37 PM EDT --
I'd always thought the point of a university education was to learn how to be open-minded, to learn how to think critically, to learn how to learn. I guess all that has changed. It now looks increasingly . . .
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