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Entries from August 16th, 2007

Whose Report Is It, Anyway?

August 16th, 2007 · No Comments · Iraq, Surge, War

The “Petraeus Report” — the supposedly trustworthy mid-September reckoning of military and political progress in Iraq by Army Gen. David H. [tag]Petraeus[/tag] and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker — is instead looking more like a White House con job in the making.
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[tags]Iraq, Surge, War, Impeach Bush[/tags]

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Bryan Young: Tony Snow’s September 1, 2007 Press Briefing

August 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Iraq, Surge, War

MR. SNOW: ..And with that I’ll open the floor for questions.
Q: Here we are, the first day of September and this was the month we were given to look at progress on the surge, and now that it’s September, does the White House feel the surge is working?
MR. SNOW: Well, first of all, I’m not [...]

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Shredding the Fourth Amendment

August 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Constitution

In describing the recent [tag]FISA[/tag] “revisions,” Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter says:
“This is not the feverish imagination of left-wing bloggers and the ACLU. It’s the plain truth of where we’ve come as a country, at the behest of a president who has betrayed his oath to defend the Constitution…”
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Fatigue Cripples US Army in Iraq

August 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Iraq, War

Exhaustion and combat stress are besieging US troops in Iraq as they battle with a new type of warfare. Some even rely on Red Bull to get through the day. As desertions and absences increase, the military is struggling to cope with the crisis.
Peter Beaumont in Baghdad
Sunday August 12, 2007
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