Tag Archives: 'iraq'

• The Iraq Option

  Graduating from college, one always has options, some more enticing than others. I should already issue a correction: Unless your major studies were in the liberal arts and you did not have family connections, one always has options upon graduating from college, some more enticing than others. For me, one option was Iraq.
  It was early [...]

• McClatchy

  What I like best about McClatchy — besides the fact that their political reporters got the Iraq story right (the first time) — is that their individual reports online mimic the look and feel of a newspaper…

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  I absolutely love that headline font.

• Currently Reading

  Now do not get me wrong. I believe the vice-president when he said Richard Clarke “wasn’t in the loop” on terrorism issues. I mean, Dick Cheney is a pretty reliable source. But still, I’d like to hear what Clarke has to say in his destined-for-textbook-status Against All Enemies…

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  And so far — through three chapters [...]

• Seven

  A unique perspective before this day ends…
  It is ironic — or isn’t it? — that the three thousand Americans that died on this day seven years ago brought this country closer together, and the more than four thousand American soldiers that have died in this day’s name (potentially in vain) in Iraq have brought us [...]

• Straight Talk

  I’ll make these comments before McCain accepts his party’s nomination this evening…
  John McCain deserved his party’s nomination in 2000. He was the better man; and he would have been the better leader. In all likelihood, if McCain would have defeated Al Gore (which was likely as well, maybe even without a recount), the horrific events [...]

• McCain’s Iraq Problem

  John McCain is in a tough spot politically in the war on terror. With Bush announcing improvements in the security conditions in Iraq, this plays directly into Barack Obama’s hands. If conditions have improved, let’s bring the troops home.
  Counter to that, McCain has stated unequivocally that the U.S. should remain in Iraq for generations to [...]

• Obama’s Foreign Policy

  In a speech today… “This war [the Iraq war] distracts us from every threat that we face and so many opportunities we could seize. This war diminishes our security, our standing in the world, our military, our economy, and the resources that we need to confront the challenges of the 21st century. By any measure, [...]

• Liveblogging the Bush Press Conference

  7:44am
  Bush: “We understood what was coming.” We just didn’t do anything about it.
  7:47am
  Bush: “Is this a war? Or is this like law enforcement?”
  7:48am
  Bush: “One front is going better than the other, and that is Iraq. Afghanistan is a tough fight. Afghanistan is reminiscent of what was going on in Iraq a couple years ago.”
  7:50am
  Bush: “I [...]

• Obama Opines

  Barack Obama penned an op-ed for the New York Times…
  We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated, and that is needed for long-term success in Iraq and the security interests of the United States.
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  In this campaign, there are honest differences over Iraq, and we should [...]

• Hagel, Obama, Iraq

  Chuck Hagel would be my choice for Obama’s VP, and he will be traveling with the Illinois senator on a trip to Iraq, so hopefully that conversation will continue on the plane.

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