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General Peter Pace can save US - by arresting Bush for "Conduct Unbecoming" — I note with admiration your courage in making clear your private concerns about the safety of the US military and the longterm danger to US national security caused by the President's stubborn refusal to acknowledge the quagmire in Iraq.
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Pentagon to start Iraq info hub — Office to distribute data ahead of military progress report due in Sept. — WASHINGTON - Shaping the Bush administration's message on the Iraq war has taken on new fervor, just as anticipation is building for the September progress report from top military advisers.
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The Work Behind Our Iraq Views — How can one gather and assess information about Iraq — collected on a trip or from any other source? Information from a war zone is difficult to attain and interpretation is open to many views. — Unfortunately, much of the blogosphere and other media outlets …
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O'Hanlon + Post = Well, The Same — Someone at The Washington Post editorial pages decided that despite the fact that Michael O'Hanlon (PDF) "has appeared on the major television networks more than 150 times since September 11, 2001 and has contributed to CNN, MSNBC, BBC …
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DNC threatens to sanction Florida Dems — The Democratic Party has taken a swipe at the nation's fourth biggest state, stripping Florida of all of its '08 delegates as punishment for jumping the gun with its primary, which is forcing other states to crowd Christmas in the quest to be first.
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GIs' morale dips as Iraq war drags on — With tours extended, multiple deployments and new tactics that put them in bare posts in greater danger, they feel leaders are out of touch with reality. — YOUSIFIYA, IRAQ — In the dining hall of a U.S. Army post south of Baghdad …
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Iraq fraud whistleblowers vilified — Cases show fraud exposers have been vilified, fired, or detained for weeks — One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted. — Or worse.
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No Big Shifts Planned After Report on Iraq — White House Senses Recent Political Gains — Despite political pressure for a change of course in Iraq, the White House hopes to keep in place its existing military strategy and troop levels there after the mid-September report from Army …
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Bill Maher Can't Get NYT Baghdad Correspondent to Bash Bush — As the new season of HBO's "Real Time" began Friday night, I watched with great trepidation, especially given host Bill Maher's disgraceful special on that network back in July wherein he spent virtually two-thirds …
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Terror Suspect List Yields Few Arrests — The government's terrorist screening database flagged Americans and foreigners as suspected terrorists almost 20,000 times last year. But only a small fraction of those questioned were arrested or denied entry into the United States …
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Tim Robbins: "If You F**k Things Up You Can No Longer Be An Expert" [VIDEO] — Tim Robbins and Bill Maher clash with Cheney biographer Stephen Hayes about the rationale for the Iraq War. — On the first episode of this season of Real Time with Bill Maher, actor Tim Robbins …
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Student cracks $84m porn filter — A MELBOURNE schoolboy has cracked the Federal Government's new $84 million internet porn filter in minutes. — Tom Wood, 16, said it took him just over 30 minutes to bypass the Government's filter, released on Tuesday. — Tom, a year 10 student …
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California Considers Hemp Pilot Program — A newly proposed law in California would establish a five-year pilot program for farmers to grow industrial hemp in four counties. The law would also define "industrial hemp" as separate from marijuana under the state's health and safety code.
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Progressives Unite! — There is something strange going on in the progressive blogosphere these days: instead of uniting against Republicans, progressive bloggers like Matt Stoller have decided to declare war on every Democrat who they consider not to be progressive (read anti-war) enough.
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Highway Robbery — There's really nothing else you can call it: … Wasn't this kind of crap supposed to stop after the 1997 federal forfeiture reforms? — Apparently not. Perhaps some drug warrior can explain to me how this kind of thing can possibly be justified.
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