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Clinton Speaks on Human Rights
7 hours ago ago from Atlantic Sentinel
Elaborating on the statement that President Obama made when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize last week “Only a just peace based upon the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at Georgetown University, Washington DC about human rights today. We cannot separate our democracy, human rights, and development agendas: they are mutually reinforcing and united in service ...
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22 hours ago ago from The \'Skeeter Bites Report
President's Address Defending the Use of Force When Necessary Was Reflective of the Elder Bush, Who Went to War to Stop Saddam Hussein's Aggression Against Kuwait With the Broad Support of the World Community -- Unlike the Younger Bush, Who Defied the World to Finish Off the Iraqi Dictator in Apparent Revenge For Saddam's Attempt to Kill His Father Sarah Palin had some rare praise Thursday for President Obama after the president delivered ...
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14 hours ago ago from Miller\'s Cell Phone Journal
The United States still has over 100,000 troops in Iraq. The United States is sending tens of thousands of extra military personnel to Afghanistan. Unemployment is at or above 10%. Financial institutions are collapsing by the week. The federal government continues to bail out large corporations and now sets the pay for executives in the bailed-out companies. Health care legislation creeping its way through Congress will cost a lot of money, ...
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1 hour, 43 minutes ago ago from Rabbi Pruzansky's Blog
Who said this ? “ War, in one form or another, appeared with the first man. At the dawn of history, its morality was not questioned; it was simply a fact, like drought or disease the manner in which tribes and then civilizations sought power and settled their differences.” “And over time, as codes of law sought to control violence within groups, so did philosophers and clerics and statesmen seek to regulate the destructive ...
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19 hours ago ago from 2 Political Junkies
Things are getting rather heated for Gordon Brown's predecessor. From the Guardian : Tony Blair used "deceit" to persuade parliament and the British people to support war in Iraq, Sir Ken Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions, said today. In an article in the Times , Macdonald attacked Blair for engaging in "alarming subterfuge", for displaying "sycophancy" towards George Bush and for refusing to accept that his decisions ...
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J. Brian Atwood: In Defense of War to Advance Peace: The Obama Paradox
4 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
"Most of the coverage of President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize award focused on the irony of it all. Here was a man with a brief record of accomplishment in his first year of office, a President of the United States, inheriting and now commanding two wars, receiving a prize for peace. Yet, Barack Obama's acceptance speech summoned up the wisdom of the ages to address mankind's struggle to rationalize the worst manifestation of human behavior: ...
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20 hours ago ago from The New York Times
LONDON As public inquiries go, Britain 's review of its involvement in the Iraq war had all the promise of a damp firecracker when it was empaneled by Prime Minister Gordon Brown last summer and there was ample evidence, in the restrictive mandate initially set by Mr. Brown, that he never intended it to be the far-reaching, unsparing inquiry that war opponents had demanded. Related Panel Asks How Britain Got Involved in ...
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