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[Socialist Party Australia] US: Political awakening propels Obama to victory: In Iraq, Obama’s pledge to draw down troops will be complicated by the failure of the Iraqi government to formally agree to a continued U.S. troop presence, and the renewed tensions between the Sunnis, Kurds, and governing Shia. In Afghanistan, the situation is unraveling fast with many warning that Obama’s plan for a troop surge there will only provoke further conflict.

[Darwiniana] Sowing the seeds of a long term tragedy: The Talabani-Barzani Kurdish Alliance in Iraq is the most important and most reliable ally of the US. Basically there are no reliable allies of the US in Iraq but the Kurds.

[AntiWar.com] Hawks Campaign to Preempt Iran Talks - by Ali Gharib: "The lie that they're hagglers in the bazaar and can't be trusted is the same sort of anti-Semitic stuff you hear about Jewish people." "Iranians brought people to the table who were authoritative," she said of the four major rounds of .

[Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni] JOE BIDEN: THE POLITICS-AS-USUAL CYNICISM OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Calling for military action on the scale of the Gulf War seven years earlier, he continued, “The only way we’re going to get rid of Saddam Hussein is we’re going to end up having to start it alone,” telling the Marine veteran “it’s going to require guys like you in uniform to be back on foot in the desert taking Saddam down.” When Ritter tried to make the case that President Bill Clinton’s proposed large-scale bombing of Iraq could jeopardize the UN inspections process, Biden condescendingly replied that decisions on the use of military force were “beyond your pay grade.” As Ritter predicted, when Clinton ordered UN inspectors out of Iraq in December of that year and followed up with a four-day bombing campaign known as Operation Desert Fox, Saddam was provided with an excuse to refuse to allow the inspectors to return. Biden then conveniently used Saddam’s failure to allow them to return as an excuse for going to war four years later.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » House of Saddam: Where are the Mass Graves and ...: Complaining one biopic of Saddam doesn’t cover EVERYTHING, is like bitching that only one properly made Holocaust movie should have covered all elements of that disaster - and the other 499 Holocaust movies Hollywood backed would have been unecessary. (Not saying many were not purely redundant).

[AntiWar.com] The Bailout, the Media, and the War Party- by Justin Raimondo: Our captive media can no longer be trusted to tell the truth about what our government is doing, at home and abroad. That's why Antiwar.com is more essential than ever. We aren't taking - or asking for - any government bailouts. ...

[Comments for Dandelion Salad] Money As Debt (video) + “In Debt We Have Trusted,” For over 300 ...: The USA has become nothing more than a dumping ground for junk and poisoned food, made in China and elsewhere by US affiliated companies that escaped US regulations and taxes, while reaping obscene profits at the expense of American workers and customers.

[AntiWar.com] Top Obama Adviser Has Long Ties to Neocons - by Michael Flynn: Dennis Ross, Bill Clinton's Mideast envoy whose record includes supporting the pro-Iraq War advocacy campaigns of the Project for the New American Century and serving as a consultant to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a bastion of Israel-centric policy thinking in Washington.

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