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War of ErrorHow Osama bin Laden Beat George W. BushBy Peter Bergen, New America FoundationThe New Republic | October 22, 2007 To understand the terror network’s resurgence -- and its continued ability to harm us -- we need to reexamine all the ways in which the administration has failed to crush it.Omar bin Laden, the fourth son of the Al Qaeda leader, cuts a striking figure. In one photo, he

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Foreign Fighters in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S. Saudi Arabia and Libya, both considered allies by the United States in its fight against terrorism, were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to Iraq in the past year to serve as suicide bombers or to facilitate other attacks, according to senior American military officials.The data come largely from a trove of

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Rice: Iraq War 'Worth the Sacrifice' - washingtonpost.comSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice this morning asked Americans "to be patient" as the war in Iraq entered its fifth year, acknowledging early missteps in the conflict but saying "it is worth the sacrifice" to have toppled former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.With a new security plan underway and more American troops deployed to help dampen

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The Problem, in A Fundamental Nutshell: 'Is Your Baby Gay?'By Lynne DukeWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, March 18, 2007; Page D01Pity the poor fetus. There's a lot coming its way. And now there's talk on a conservative evangelical blog of a hypothetical hormone patch that an expectant mother might wear to eradicate her fetus's natural gayness.The patch, the biological determinism: It's all

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The SubstanceAs the military scrambles to pour more soldiers into Iraq, a unit of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga., is deploying troops with serious injuries and other medical problems, including GIs who doctors have said are medically unfit for battle. Some are too injured to wear their body armor, according to medical records.On Feb. 15, Master Sgt. Jenkins and 74 other

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File this under buried leads:That was December 2001. Only two months later, Bush decided to pull out most of the special operations troops and their CIA counterparts in the paramilitary division that were leading the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan to prepare for war in Iraq, said Flynt L. Leverett, then an expert on the Middle East at the National Security Council."I was appalled when I

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The SubtanceABC's docudrama "The Path to 9/11" is a false version of history. It popularizes right-wing myths by exaggerating Clinton's failures and Bush's successes, depicting events that never happened.http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/09/08/path_to_9_11/print.htmlThe Sept. 11 that never wasBy Joe ConasonSep. 08, 2006 | It would be uplifting to believe, as the producers of ABC's "The

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The SubtanceLet me start by saying that "The Path to 9/11" is one of the best, most intelligent, most pro-American miniseries I've ever seen on TV, and conservatives should support it and promote it as vigorously as possible.This is the first Hollywood production I’ve seen that honestly depicts how the Clinton administration repeatedly bungled the capture of Osama Bin Laden. One astonishing

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The SubtanceThe US last week imposed sanctions on two Russian firms for allegedly passing on equipment to Iran that could be used to develop weapons of mass destruction. Five other firms in North Korea, India and Cuba were also penalised.A state department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the sanctions were imposed after the US obtained "credible information" that the companies

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The SubtanceWith violence boiling in the Middle East and his party's control of Congress up for grabs in elections this fall, Bush is forgoing his typical monthlong break from the White House. Instead, he planned to spend 10 days in Crawford, Texas, before returning to work in Washington _ his shortest summer vacation since taking office.Are we supposed to be impressed that he's only taking two

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The SubtanceTwo top Pentagon commanders said Thursday that spiraling violence in Baghdad could propel Iraq into outright civil war, using a politically loaded term that the Bush administration has long avoided. Aug. 3, 2006, 6:10PMPentagon generals warn of Iraq civil warBy ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY Associated Press Writer© 2006 The Associated PressWASHINGTON — Two top Pentagon commanders said

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The SubtanceIn a statement which appears to have taken the Bush administration by surprise, Iraq's President has told a news conference today that US led forces will be out of his country by the end of the year.President Jalal Talabani's announcement comes less than a week after US President George W. Bush met Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki, and agreed to strengthen the US military presence

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The SubtancePresident George W. Bush said on Thursday he was not surprised by a video from al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahri exhorting Muslims to "fight and become martyrs" in response to the conflict in Lebanon.Pick your parallel:"Bring 'em on.""So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you.""What we're seeing here, in a sense,

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The SubtanceHalf of Americans now say Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the United States invaded the country in 2003 -- up from 36 percent last year, a Harris poll finds. Pollsters deemed the increase both "substantial" and "surprising" in light of persistent press reports to the contrary in recent years.50 percent of U.S. says Iraq had WMDsBy Jennifer HarperTHE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished

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The SubtanceThe Bush administration acknowledged yesterday that it had long known about Pakistan's plans to build a large plutonium-production reactor, but it said the White House was working to dissuade Pakistan from using the plant to expand its nuclear arsenal."We discourage military use of the facility," White House spokesman Tony Snow said of a powerful heavy-water reactor under construction

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The SubtanceBombs killed two worshippers at mosques in Iraq during Friday prayers and the authorities extended a daytime curfew on Baghdad after one of the bloodiest weeks this year.On the eve of a high-profile meeting intended to demonstrate reconciliation among sectarian and ethnic factions ahead of a White House visit by the prime minister, senior leaders admitted to despair about the chances

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The SubtanceThere's never been a global war on terror. It's a sham, a ruse. When the media and our political class accepted the war frame, the hawks got a blank check. Everything that followed -- invasions, illegal surveillance and prisoners held in limbo, are all expected during times of war. Once we went to "war," resisting those policies became an uphill fight. War talk justifies powerful

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The SubtancePresident Bush himself blocked an internal Justice Department inquiry into the administration's decision to eavesdrop on domestic phone calls without a warrant from a judge, as required by a 1978 law. President Bush started the domestic surveillance program in the belief that his wartime powers and a resolution passed by Congress after Sept. 11 gave him the right to sidestep the law

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The SubtanceThe Bush administration’s program of financing social service initiatives run by religiously affiliated groups lacks adequate safeguards against religious discrimination and has yet to measure the performance of the groups, a new Congressional report says. [I]n looking at 10 federal programs, the researchers found that only four gave an explicit statement to religious organizations

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The SubtanceIT WAS a stark admission of helplessness from the leader of the world's only super power.With Israeli jets bombing Beirut airport and Hezbollah rockets landing in Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, the US President was asked what he could do to stop the fighting escalating.Standing beside the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, at a press conference in Rostock before he left for the G8

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The SubtanceMembers of Congress from both parties are concerned that runaway costs threaten to weaken the armed forces as higher price tags mean they can afford fewer weapons. Cost overruns have long been a Pentagon staple. But what has alarmed government oversight agencies and Pentagon observers, and spurred Congress to act, is the magnitude of the spending increases. Projects are as much as 50

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The SubtanceIt’s a lot worse over here [in Iraq] than is reported. The administration does a great job of managing the news. You can only manage the news to a certain degree. It is certainly hard to hide the fact that in the third year of this war, Iraqis are only getting electricity for about 5 to 10 percent of the day. Living conditions have gotten so much worse, violence is at an even higher

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The SubtanceThe federal government will pay a Texas law school $1 million to do research aimed at rolling back the amount of sensitive data available to the press and public through freedom-of-information requests. Beginning this month, St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio will analyze recent state laws that place previously available information, such as site plans of power plants,

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The SubtanceChildren of same-sex couples benefit when their parents are able to marry or form civil unions, according to a report commissioned by the American Academy of Pediatrics."The Effects of Marriage, Civil Union and Domestic Partnership Laws on the Health and Well-Being of Children," published Wednesday in the July issue of Pediatrics, concluded that civil marriage can strengthen families

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