Failure in Iraq to Be Learning Experience

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"Americans should accept that the entire nation has, to one degree or another, failed in Iraq.

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Does the Internet Need Fixing Sadly, Yes.

post from Ezra Klein on 24 August 2007 01:41:00 PM. © Ezra Klein

By Deborah Newell Tornello a.k.a. litbrit How could I have missed this bit of lovely on Tuesday? Oh yeah, it was the first full-day of school. No matter--is it any less relevant today? Sadly, No.[...]

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Screening Liberally Big Picture

post from Open Left - Front Page on 24 August 2007 01:36:07 PM. © Open Left - Front Page

Talking The 11th Hour, Movement Politics and Favorite Movies with Thom HartmannBy Josh Bolotsky,[...]

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Listen to The Real Experts

post from Firedoglake on 24 August 2007 01:32:48 PM. © Firedoglake

This week many of us learned of the new Ari Fleisher propaganda campaign which uses images of veterans and 9/11 to try to sell ? once again ? the occupation of Iraq. And we?ve been swamped with the oh so serious people ? and some of our candidates ?[...]

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Economic Liberalism for Me, But Not for Thee

post from Steven White on 24 August 2007 01:31:00 PM. © Steven White

Matthew Yglesias is right that Paul Krugman is wrong, but Yglesias is also wrong on at least one[...]

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Afternoon Thread

post from Eschaton on 24 August 2007 01:26:00 PM. © Eschaton

Enjoy.

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Froomkin wants to know what happened to Bush's
"lost year" in Iraq And what were the costs

post from AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth on 24 August 2007 01:25:00 PM. © AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

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A new national intelligence estimate concludes that President Bush's troop surge shows no signs of accomplishing its goal of encouraging political reconciliation in Iraq.

An influential Republican senator and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff now favor a troop withdrawal. (Sen. John Warner wants Bush to demonstrate that the commitment in Iraq is not open-ended; Marine Gen. Peter Pace argues that the military simply can't keep this up.)

These and other developments take us back in some ways to December 2006. It was then, in the wake of the November election and the report of the Iraq Study Group, that the debate in Washington finally appeared to be shifting away from how to achieve victory and toward how to cut our losses.

Instead, Bush ignored public sentiment, overruled his military commanders and opted for escalation.

And now it appears that the only thing the surge has bought him is time -- nine months or maybe a year, during which he was able to postpone the inevitable.

What has that year cost America -- and Iraq? For starters, a year in Iraq translates to over 1,000 more dead American soldiers; over $100 billion more in direct appropriations; over 15,000 more dead Iraqi civilians; and countless grievous wounds and shattered families both here and there.

In light of the costs, having bought a year of time may not seem like much of an accomplishment. But if Bush can drag things out another year or so, he can wash his hands of the whole mess and leave it for his successor to deal with.

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ME-Sen: Conflict of interest in Maine press - for
Collins

post from Daily Kos on 24 August 2007 01:24:25 PM. © Daily Kos

(From the diaries -- kos)

Senator Susan Collins gets amazing press from the Bangor Daily News. AMAZING. Her press release's complaints that she was being taped by the Allen campaign - while, gasp, marching in a parade - got the BDN to do a front page story and to run an editorial tut-tutting over it as bad for civil discourse in Maine.

When she first ran, the BDN got all agog because people had looked at information in the public record about her.

They are her biggest fans, excusing away every pro-war and pro-Bush vote. They help keep the myth alive that she is a thoughtful moderate.

Well, what almost no one knows is that the Executive Editor of the BDN (Mark Woodward)'s wife (Bridget Woodward) is on Senator Collins' Bangor staff. This is a clear conflict of interest.

How can we inform the people of Maine about it? You know darn well that the BDN won't tell anyone!!!

For a bunch of folks who are SO concerned with potential problems in how campaigns are run, the BDN is living in a big glass house.

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Vital Stats on "Bush Dogs"--With Battleground
State Status

Building on Chris's initial table in Vital Stats on "Bush Dogs", I have used the breakdown of[...]

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Non-Veterans of Foreign Wars

From the Washington Post:As some of the leading presidential candidates trooped before the Veterans[...]

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