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Massachusetts: Iraq

May 17, 2009 - 01:13 pm
NEWS FEED: Blue Mass Group

Where was "Blessed are the peacemakers"?

By Charley on the MTA

This is just too flat-out bizarre for words: During the first days of the Iraq War in 2003, the Rumsfeld-led Pentagon prominently put Biblical quotes on the cover sheets to their reports to the White House. The quotes are juxtaposed with pictures of military folks huddling, or apparently praying, and tanks and planes.

Check out the gallery of images at GQ.

The charitable explanation for this is that they were trying to assure the Commander-in-Chief that he was doing the right and Godly thing in ordering the country into war. The other explanation was that they all did in fact view it as a Crusade, as the opportunity to impose Western/Christian power and hegemony over a region of infidels.

This maniac was our Secretary of Defense. The degree of his eccentricity, incompetence and flat-out malice never fails to surprise and shock.

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May 14, 2009 - 06:06 pm
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

New England reps split on war funding

The New England delegation divided on the issue today as the House approved funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as the US winds down its involvement in the former and increases its push in the latter. The $97...

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March 11, 2009 - 04:08 pm
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Obama announces foreign policy picks

President Obama announced this afternoon his nominations for several key foreign policy posts. He selected Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry as ambassador to Afghanistan, Christopher R. Hill as ambassador to Iraq, Ivo Daalder as ambassador to NATO and Alexander Vershbow as...

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March 11, 2009 - 12:58 pm
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

MoveOn turns to healthcare

MoveOn.org is moving on from the Iraq war to healthcare. The powerful grassroots group, which was a key early supporter of Barack Obama, got its start in vehement opposition to the Iraq war. But now that Obama is president...

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March 2, 2009 - 03:19 pm
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Obama: a time of peril and possibility

They went largely unnoticed because the headline of the day was his plan to end the war in Iraq and withdraw US troops. But President Obama had some intriguing comments in his interview with "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer"...

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February 27, 2009 - 06:47 pm
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Obama addresses Iraq plan critics

President Obama defends his Iraq pullout plan against critics among fellow Democrats and antiwar groups who say it doesn't keep his campaign pledges to withdraw nearly all US combat troops within 16 months of his inauguration. "Well, what I...

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February 27, 2009 - 04:08 pm
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

More on Iraq withdrawal plan

The White House this afternoon released its "fact sheet" on President Obama's withdrawal plan. On his first day in office, President Obama ordered a comprehensive review of United States Iraq policy by military commanders on the ground, the Joint Chiefs,...

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February 27, 2009 - 12:16 pm
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Obama announces Iraq pullout plan

In his highest profile appearance yet as commander in chief, President Obama declared today that the United States will withdraw most of its troops within 18 months and embark on a new strategy based on diplomacy and regional engagement. "Let...

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February 27, 2009 - 12:09 pm
NEWS FEED: Blue Mass Group

Weekly Joke Revue

By Bob

I thought dissections were for biology, not political science, but the online evisceration of former G.O.P. hopeful Bobby "The Exorcist" Jindal is so amusing it's become a joke. Gawker: "Jindal just couldn't quit with the wide-eyed 'aww, shucks,' Howdy-Doody delivery, apparently rehearsed in front of a Kindergarten class." Review the painstaking comparisons between the laissez-faire governor lost in the economic theories of the 1890s and Kenneth the Page from "30 Rock." -- executed with the kind of detail that the time-wasting resources of the Internet make possible -- with a little click here.

From Daniel Kurtzman:

"The whole cast of 'Slumdog Millionaire' came out to see the Oscars.

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February 27, 2009 - 09:44 am
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

A new course in Iraq

In April 2003, a month into the Iraq war, then-President Bush gave a major speech at Camp Lejeune, paying tribute to the Marines Corps leading the fight. "These missions are difficult and they are dangerous, but no one becomes a...

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