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Thursday, March 12, 2009.  Chaos and violence continue, shoe-toss gets you one-and-a-half-years or three if you toss two, England's rocked by more evidence of manipulating the pre-war intelligence, the US military pretends to address suicides, and more.    We're going to sta... [6 Citations]

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Above is Bully Boy and Nouri al-Maliki as the two celebrated and signed the Strategic Forces Agreement and the treaty masquerading as a Status Of Forces Agreement on December 14th minutes before Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi declared, "This is a gift from the Iraqis. This is the farewell kiss ... [1 Citations]

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009.  Chaos and violence continue, Robert Gates continues speaking but some aren't listening, Thomas E. Ricks can analyze and report but he fails as a media critic (and contradicts himself), Crazy Ass Cockburn distorts the interview Martha Raddatz did this week, and more. ... [1 Citations]

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Yesterday on the outskirts of Baghdad, Abu Ghraib saw a suicide bombing which claimed the lives of at least 33 people plus the bomber. The bomber's presumed to have been male and if your news outlet of choice forgets to include that detail, you can tell the press is operating under that belief becau...

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Rebecca: We're doing a roundtable Friday on Iraq. That is not this roundtable. This roundtable is on Afghanistan. Participating are The Third Estate Sunday Review 's Dona, Ava, and C.I. -- C.I. also of The Common Ills , me -- Rebecca -- of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude , Betty of Thomas ... [1 Citations]

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