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mises
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 Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:39 am Post subject: House approves war spending bill |
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Reporting from Washington -- Sidestepping opposition from antiwar liberals, the House on Tuesday approved funding to escalate the war in Afghanistan and wind down U.S. involvement in Iraq.
The $106-billion war funding bill, approved 226 to 202, posed the toughest test yet of President Obama's ability to rally his party's left wing, which views his foreign and military policies as too hawkish. |
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-war-funding17-2009jun17,0,6335235.story
Wind down?
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06052009/transcript1.html
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| JEREMY SCAHILL..we've seen reports from Jim Miklaszewski, NBC News' Pentagon correspondent. He's quoting military sources saying that they expect to be in Iraq 15 to 20 years in sizable numbers. |
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bacasper
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:55 am Post subject: |
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| While initially gratifying, it is ultimately sad to realize that one has developed the ability to read a newspaper and know that exactly the opposite of what is being reported is true. |
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mises
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:59 am Post subject: |
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I disagree with JS on many issues but I respect him because of this:
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| JEREMY SCAHILL: Well, I don't believe that it necessarily doesn't get cured. I think that I'm very heartened by the fact that we have a very vibrant independent media landscape that's developing right now. You know, to me, I once put on the tagline of an article that I wrote early on in the Obama administration that I pledge to be the same journalist under Barack Obama that I was under President Bush. And the reason I felt that it was necessary to say that is that I feel like we have a sort of blue-state-Fox culture in the media. Where people are willing to go above and beyond the call of partisan politics to give Obama the benefit of the doubt. This is a man- it's time to take off the Obama t-shirts. This is a man who's in charge of the most powerful country on earth. The media in this country, we have an obligation to treat him the way we treated Bush in terms of being critical of him. And, yet, I feel like many Democrats have had their spines surgically removed these days, as have a lot of journalists. The fact is that this man is governing over a policy that is killing a tremendous number of civilians. |
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06052009/transcript1.html |
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