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Bush’s Refrain on Iraq Joined by a Smaller and Smaller Chorus
To illustrate the progress in Iraq, Bush ticked off statistics on the Iraqi security forces (200 operations in two weeks), the number of Iraqi battalions (more than 130, covering 30,000 square miles), the number of tips (4,000 in December), the number of weapons caches and [...]

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BoingBoing’s Xeni Jardin gets around, finally, to making this observation: “We are being lied to.”
Yep, we sure are. Finally, several days after I first heard part but not all of it, here is the link to This American Life’s Guantanamo report, “Habeas Schmabeas.” This is the one where part of it, in explanation of the [...]

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Huffington Post, that haven for lefty slebs, has a new blogger, and I say “Right on, right on, see you at the barricades.”
The Blog | George Clooney: I Am a Liberal. There, I Said It! | The Huffington Post
The fear of (being) criticized can be paralyzing. Just look at the way so many Democrats caved [...]

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