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I'll stick with mailing it in, primarily because we have an intensely serious voting official who is very careful about…
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Perspective is everything.  Hersh covered the politics & spooks, but did not cover how the actual network was built and…
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Steven, track Khan's network, and I think you'll have your answer.  (Langewiesche:  Point of No Return on Khan [subsc. req'd]).…
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Still think she's a few steps away from Limbush.   "She's a pragmatic centrist, non-ideological in nature." Bingo.  The definition…
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If Pelosi got a bad review, she needs to go back to "Interview 101".  At least Clinton has that part…
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The task assigned once in a combat zone is to stay alive.  Are some few of the 130,000 military personnel…
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Most of those who serve - especially combat vets - want to take off the uniform and try to return…
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I've kept this link for the occasion: "There's more combat experience on the 7th floor of the State Department than…
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Hilti DX 460 MX 72 Powder Actuated Fastening Tool.  A "gun" by any other name.
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Why are you so concerned with companies doing their (lobbying) job?  Kinda like blaming the messenger.  I'll keep my Chevron…
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Oh, sorry.  `Once the Americans leave, Sunnis will have no common cause with foreign mujahideen'.  [Boston Review, Jan/Feb 2006].
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Among the "he could"s is relieving/retiring Rove, Cheney, and Rumsfeld over the next five months, which would signal a sea…
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Anger and self-righteousness only go so far with the electorate, and the "left" has been stuck in that rut for…
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Get past the usual rhetoric here and note that Blair was in Iraq this week, where al-Maliki told him the…
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Good point.  In that case, I'll stick to the Northcoast of California.  
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Another humor article:  Gallup Poll on morality.  (Release date is today).  Democrats like divorce, stem cells, premarital sex, and gambling.…
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Ah, sibling rivalry.  Your bro's subject matter is fascinating.  I can now tell my grandchildren that their grandchildren's grandchildren might…
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This time from the Iraqi PM.  They've been sending the same message for a relatively long time now, and have…
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That fact, however, has no relationship to whether we will or should start to draw down our troops, and whether…
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"We" have a timetable for withdrawal, which is one part of the international agreements on the "situation in Iraq".  …
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