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18 hours ago ago from LOATAY.COM - Pakistan News,India News,Afghanistan News and Loatay Update!

We don't hear all that much about Iraq these days, do we? The war almost tore apart this country. Public anger sent George W. Bush's approval ratings plummeting. And outrage over losses helped elect anti-Iraq-war candidate Barack Obama. But Iraq is hardly in the news anymore. That seems odd, given there are still 120,000 U.S. troops there. So, why the silence? In short, Americans are not dying in Iraq as they were from 2006 to ...

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Ghosts of Hillary Clinton’s Iraq Senate Vote

12 hours ago ago from HillBuzz

Back in October of 2002, we remember sitting around the TV watching debate on the Iraq War resolution the Senate was passing. We did not believe the Bush Administration's reasons for going to war with Iraq. The whole case for taking the paper tiger of Baghdad out because he supposedly had weapons of mass destruction that could assault the United States was as plausible to us as claiming war was necessary because Saddam Hussein must not ...

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The Forgotten Reason Behind Bush's Unpopularity

1 hour, 25 minutes ago ago from MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics

Home Diaries Breaking Blue E-Wire 2008 The Forgotten Reason Behind Bush's Unpopularity by Inoljt , Sat Dec 19, 2009 at 08:41:41 PM EST By: Inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/ Memory fades quickly in politics; less than a year ago George W. Bush was president, and already the man is halfway forgotten (something due in no small part to Bush's self-enforced media silence). Many, of course, remember that former President George ...

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The underlying divisions in the health care debate

16 hours ago ago from News

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/12/18/corporatism/index.html Shared contempt for the Bush administration (at least once Bush and the Iraq War became discredited) largely obscured these differences when Bush was in office. The desire to undermine the Bush GOP and dislodge that movement from power subsumed all other objectives and united people with vastly different political outlooks and agendas. There is still a ...

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What If The U.S. Didn’t Only Have Troops In Iraq To Fight Bush’s War?

16 hours ago ago from PUNK ROCK REPUBLICAN

Would a U.S. President really wanna make a big deal about getting American troops outta there by a certain date? It could make it much more difficult to deal with say the problem of hikers wandering across the border by accident or something along those lines in the future. ‘Iraq Says Iran Violated Border, Calls For Withdrawal’ By Caroline Alexander and Margot Habiby for Bloomberg .

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Zakaria: Iraq's Critical Year

11 hours ago ago from Newsweek - Columns - World View

Login Username: Password: SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to Newsweek and save up to 88% Close SPONSORED BY: Fareed Zakaria Donât Forget Americaâs Other War Published Dec 19, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Jan 4, 2010 SPONSORED BY   Email To A Friend Please fill in the following ...

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World Digest: Iranian soldiers allegedly raid Iraqi oil field

23 hours ago ago from Washington Post - World

Iraq Soldiers from Iran allegedly raid oil field The Iraqi government on Friday condemned a reported cross-border raid by Iranian soldiers who allegedly raised their flag at the Fakka oil field in Iraq's Maysan province. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh called it a transgression on Iraq's sovereignty and said a formal written protest would be filed with Iran's ambassador in Baghdad. Iraqi military officials said the Iranians stayed ...

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