Tag: war
group name: progresspolitics
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May 18, 2007 03:41 PM EDT --
The congress has voted through a bill to giving the military a 3.5% pay increase. Bush refuses to sign anything over 3%, saying a raise in military pay is unnecessary!
Privates in the army make about . . .
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May 06, 2007 02:18 AM EDT --
The true test of wisdom, I am told, is knowing that you do not know. By that test, I have just become more wise, and a sadder but wiser man. But I am also renewed.
I’m an old . . .
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October 04, 2007 09:42 PM EDT --
I write this article as someone who is a politically independent person. I have no ties to the Democrat Party at all. However, I was quite amazed to find out today, that Nancy Pelosi took a proposal that . . .
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December 18, 2008 12:10 PM EST --
I feel like there have been a decent number of stories in the news lately about people saying they have been abused or tortured by the US. What are your thoughts on this practice? Do you think it is productive? . . .
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September 12, 2007 01:41 AM EDT --
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/09/11/BL2007091100967.html?hpid=topnews
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/10/AR2007091001303.html?hpid=topnews . . .
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July 21, 2008 07:42 PM EDT --
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September 15, 2007 12:07 AM EDT --
This was to be the monumental week on the Iraq War - the referendum on the Iraq War strategy and policy of President Bush and his Administration. Early in the week, General Patraeus and Ambassador . . .
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December 06, 2007 12:23 PM EST --
memoir recalls woman's journey through 1960s America
AMERICA'S CHILD - A Woman's Journey Through the Radical Sixties , a memoir by Susan Sherman. Curbstone Press, Willimantic, CT; . . .
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November 12, 2007 09:48 PM EST --
You may have heard a few weeks ago when the Congressional Budget Office came out with its estimate the the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost American taxpayers 2.4 trillion dollars.
It's . . .
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February 27, 2007 05:29 PM EST --
In the wake of this morning's news about the suicide bomb attack at Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan, a check of perspective is called for.
Two plain facts come out of this attack:
1. Most . . .
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January 15, 2008 10:12 AM EST --
Two veterans, evicted from Veterans Administration Housing have taken their own lives over the past few weeks. The men were housed in an apartment complex on the grounds of a VA Medical Facility, . . .
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March 26, 2008 02:38 PM EDT --
U.S. Congressman Patrick J. Murphy , an Iraq war veteran, former West Point professor, criminal prosecutor, and family man, is supporting Senator Barack Obama for President.
Listen in on this conference . . .
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June 05, 2008 11:49 AM EDT --
The beginning of the arraignments for five of the suspected Al Qaeda operatives in the planning of 9/11 is, in fact, the beginning of the Trial of American Values and American Justice before the World. . . .
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March 18, 2008 07:17 PM EDT --
What follows is a copy of the speech by Barak Obama in Philadelphia March 18th. Read it thruough before commenting. Video of the speech is available at http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGBbrc . . .
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September 16, 2007 12:17 PM EDT --
If you do not read this “Times Online” article, you might as well stop talking about the Bush presidency.
I am going to characterize what I am about to say as a Rush Limbaugh style diatribe . . .
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August 28, 2007 05:35 AM EDT --
Geneva Convention on persons held by an occupying force.
For those of you who believe EVERYTHING GW Bush and Rush Limbaugh Tell you, I am respectfully suggesting that you carefully peruse the Geneva . . .
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April 18, 2007 08:04 PM EDT --
NOTICE: THIS ARTICLE MAY NOT BE USED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES WITHOUT CONTACTING IRIN FOR PERMISSION.
BAGHDAD, 18 April (IRIN) - When 53-year-old Tina Abdallah celebrated the fall of deceased former . . .
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November 25, 2008 11:23 PM EST --
My opinion in reference to what President Obama needs to do:
1. Deal with the economy, with massive infusions of funds - to infrastructure development, green energy, healthcare, education. He . . .
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June 07, 2007 03:45 PM EDT --
The air is full of political lies
and also full of fireflies
this autumn night, and as I brood
I'm moved to healthful gratitude:
for bugs I thank a godless nature,
for lies, a godly legislature.
My . . .
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August 24, 2007 08:04 PM EDT --
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13935730
The URL will take you to a National Public Radio report. I have nothing to add.
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