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[Moments of Clarity] Did the Iraq War 'destroy' progressive politics? « Moments of Clarity: I can because to me there are broader lessons contained within the Iraq fiasco about the total folly of the whole ‘War on Terror’. For others it is the feeling of betrayal and slightedness that lingers however this will continue too until the above lessons are learnt.

[gringoman.com] gringoman.com: Daughter of the Desert: He's certainly earned the right to vent, (probably more so than the typical tenured LeftProf in U.S. academia today) and I might agree that Bush has made mistakes, just like anyone else would have who dared to invade Iraq. He might even agree that a tsunami is coming from the East, only he thinks it folly to go out and meet it--with arrows OR olive branch-- instead of staying home, like well-behaved little "sensitives,"

[Bahama Pundit] Bahama Pundit: The Grand Old Progressive Liberal Party: Most GOP leaders wailing about the effect Barack Obama’s stimulus programme and new budget will have on America’s national deficit and debt rubber-stamped George Bush’s gargantuan tax cuts, a trillion dollar war in Iraq and other measures which sent that country’s annual deficit and long-term debt into the stratosphere.

[TPMmuckraker] TPMmuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Today's Must Read: It was like Tom Friedman's appearance on C-SPAN's Washington Journal before the Iraq War where this supporter of bombing and invading Iraq said that he didn't allow his own children - teenagers - to read his columns because he didn't want their young lives troubled by these concerns. But how he loved the idea of ripping arms and legs off children in Iraq and showing the Arabs just what American power would do to all of them if we felt like it.

[Walter Russell Mead's Blog] Thinking the Unthinkable: War With Iran - Walter Russell Mead's ...: It’s unfortunately rather easy to think of circumstances that could force the Obama administration into a war it would rather avoid.  Here’s a scenario: without asking American permission the Israelis launch attacks on Iran that bloody the regime’s nose and, while they don’t destroy the nuclear program, they do expose the regime’s inability to defend its airspace against the hated Zionist foe.  Not believing US denials or really caring whether they are true,  to distract public attention at home and abroad from its military failures against the hated Zionists,  and to capitalize on a perceived opportunity to pose as the leader of Islamic resistance to the “Crusader and Zionist alliance,” Iran retaliates against US targets —

[The LA Progressive] On Barack's Platter: Iraq's Disastrous Fallout | The LA Progressive: It is true that we lack sufficient forces to prevail in Afghanistan, but what Obama is not saying (and perhaps not seeing) is that Afghanistan is, like Iraq, scarcely a nation at all, and will be stable only under the kind of draconian force that the Taliban can provide. To prevent a Taliban takeover, Obama will have to keep a major force in Afghanistan indefinitely.

[David Olive's Everybody's Business] David Olive's Everybody's Business: or me, the assertions made by Chait and Sullivan that the other party doesn't understand Mideast political sensibilities is a sideshow. (No one does, or soon will - so much of it is underpinned by pride, anger and irrationality.) What does interest me is the weapons of choice in this as in any debate, when each debater is at the top of his or her considerable form.

[The LA Progressive] The March of Folly, Continued | The LA Progressive: A week ago, one out of seven members of the House of Representatives voted against a supplemental appropriations bill providing $81.3 billion to the Pentagon, mainly for warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan. An opponent of the funding, Congressman John Conyers, pointed out that “the president has not challenged our most pervasive and dangerous national hubris: the foolhardy belief that we can erect the foundations of civil society through the judicious use of our many high-tech instruments of violence.”

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: like they lived with social security, medicare for elders, health care for children, and other hundreds progressive pieces of legislation. Now, l have a question for you Senator Hatch: How do you live with the fact that you voted for an unwarranted war that killed thousand of our troops when our commander in chief ex-president Bush was mimicking journalists in the white house dinner looking for WMD behind curtains.

[Saturn Smith's Open Salon Blog] On John Boehner and the New GOP High Ground - Saturn Smith - Open ...: If I want to believe -- and I do, really, in my heart of bleeding American Liberal hearts -- that the people elected to Congress aren't all cynical bastards concerned only with their own political futures, then I have to believe that the House Republicans voted against this bill based on principle.

[The Stump] Supporters are late to the party | OregonLive.com: The fact that Obama will end the patriot act Bush signed into law and the wars he continues to fight, his inabilitilty to convince Americans to like his dumb a** decisions on Gitmo and DADT the real problem Tea Partiers have with THEM is the insane spending and tax hikes never seen before in history. Liberals complained about Bush's trillion dollar debt but seem to love it that Barry has tripled that in less than a year and he now owns GM, Chrysler, the banks and is going after healthcare.

[BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash] Dave Lindorff: The Shame and Folly of Obama's War in Afghanistan ...: As hard as it's been for the U.S. military occupation force in Iraq to train and field an Iraqi army, at least the U.S. there has been working with a trained officer corps inherited from Saddam Hussein, and with a core of soldiers who had already served, and with new recruits who are literate, and who have a some desire to rebuild a national government. Afghanistan has none of those things.

[NewsReal Blog] “Going Rogue” Author Would Never Endorse Rand Paul | NewsReal Blog: This is beyond stupid….what do you think any of the things you've cited say, that it's never just to go to war, or that Iraq doesn't meet the just war conditions they lay out? (To cite Washington's Farewell Address as an anti-Iraq tract is especially dishonest.)

[News Dissector Blog] News Dissector Blog » Blog Archive » Why Has Obama Blown It And ...: He knocked out the loathsome Homer Capehart in 1962 and beat back two strong GOP challengers, William Ruckelshaus in 1968 and Richard Lugar in 1974 ”” all well pursuing a defiantly progressive agenda. Well, when George W.

[Philadelphia Independent Media Center - Passionate and Accurate Tellings of Truth] America's Permanent War Agenda | Philadelphia Independent Media Center: The strategy includes encircling Russia, China, and Iran, obstructing their solidarity and cohesion, defusing a feared geopolitical alliance, weakening the Iranian government, perhaps attacking its nuclear sites, eliminating Israel's main regional rival, and securing unchallenged Eurasian dominance over this resource rich part of the world that includes China, Russia, the Middle East, and Indian subcontinent.

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