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War? Massive US Naval Armada Heads For Iran view story
43 votes- Submitted by onreact.com
- about 1 month ago
- (http://europebusines.blogspot.com...)
Dozens of war ships heading for the Persian gulf. Is this the beginning of the Iran war?
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The Real Aggressor view story
7 votes- Submitted by populist
- about 1 month ago
- (http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?ar...)
Georgian invasion of South Ossetia sets the stage for a wider war
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Cheney's Office Considered Disguising Navy Seals As Iranians To Provoke War view story
3 votes- Submitted by jdow
- 2 months ago
- (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/200...)
Dick Cheney's Office: Why don't we build -- we in our shipyard -- build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.
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Follow the Constitution: Only Congress Can Declare War, Bob Barr Says view story
5 votes- Submitted by populist
- 2 months ago
- (http://www.bobbarr2008.com/press/...)
Former Secretaries of State James Baker and Warren Christopher have proposed a new statute to encourage the president and Congress to cooperate in going to war. But the Constitution already sets forth a clear rule: Congress, and only Congress, is tasked
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Video: Sy Hersh Says Attacks On Iran Happening Now view story
4 votes- Submitted by populist
- 3 months ago
- (http://www.crooksandliars.com/200...)
Seymour Hersh has been writing about the Bush administration’s aggressive stance against Iran for years now. His latest article for The New Yorker, “Preparing the Battlefield“, Hersh claims that the Bush administration has been carrying out clandes
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A Manhunt or a Vital War? view story
1 vote- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- about 23 hours ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05...)
- Became popular about 1 hour ago
Afghanistan is more than a manhunt, and it does matter, for reasons that have not been fully fleshed out by policy makers or the military.
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DEBATE FACT CHECK: IGNORING AFGHANISTAN view story
1 vote- Submitted by GroupAdmin
- 1 day ago
- (http://factcheck.barackobama.com/...)
- Became popular about 5 hours ago
Know the facts
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War in Afghanistan cannot be won, British commander Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith warns - Telegraph view story
2 votes- Submitted by Wordherd
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/n...)
- Became popular about 7 hours ago
The war in Afghanistan cannot be won, Britain's most senior military commander in the country has warned.
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Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain view story
1 vote- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05...)
- Became popular about 10 hours ago
The 2008 election is now an Obama-Palin race about “the future,” and the only person who doesn’t seem to know it is Mr. Past, poor old John McCain.
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Dick Cheney, Role Model view story
1 vote- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04...)
- Became popular about 12 hours ago
It was hard to tell from Gov. Sarah Palin’s remarks in the vice-presidential debate if she understands how Dick Cheney has reshaped and damaged the office.
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ACLU Condemns New FBI Guidelines | CommonDreams.org view story
2 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.commondreams.org/newsw...)
- Became popular about 17 hours ago
The new guidelines reduce standards for beginning "assessments" (precursors to investigations), conducting surveillance and gathering evidence, meaning the threshold to beginning investigations across the board will be lowered. More troubling still, the g
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The War to Promote Terror view story
1 vote- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.commondreams.org/view/...)
- Became popular about 19 hours ago
The "necessary war" in Afghanistan, which both presidential candidates support - the one, you know, that's really about terrorists and Osama and all - raises as many troubling questions about who we are as the other war we're fighting and losing.
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Sarah Palin in Vice-Presidential Debate: Why Should We Pretend to Notice When Her Ideas Made No Sense view story
1 vote- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.salon.com/opinion/cona...)
- Became popular about 23 hours ago
Why aren't more conservatives disgusted that their party nominated a person devoid of qualifications for the vice presidency (again)?
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Obama and ’60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths view story
1 vote- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04...)
- Became popular 1 day ago
A review of records suggests that Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weathermen, were not close.
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In Politics, If You Have to Be Honest, Wait Until the End of Your Term view story
1 vote- Submitted by onreact.com
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.antiwar.com/eland/?art...)
- Became popular 1 day ago
Remember when Eric Shinseki, the Army Chief of Staff, was pushed into retirement for testifying truthfully that occupying Iraq might prove to be a daunting challenge and could require several hundred thousand US combat troops?

