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	<title>organized chaos &#187; Iraq</title>
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	<description>possibly fair. never balanced.</description>
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		<title>not likely</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/02/11/not-likely/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/02/11/not-likely/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our lovable Vice President Joe Biden talking to Larry King:
I am very optimistic about &#8212; about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You&#8217;re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You&#8217;re going to see a stable government in Iraq [...]]]></description>
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		<title>very impressive</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2009/02/05/very-impressive/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2009/02/05/very-impressive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cabinet picks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax cheats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Daschle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had doubts about President Obama since I first took a look at his campaign, but even I didn&#8217;t expect this level of confusion.
Now-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner -  isn&#8217;t too keen on paying taxes, even when it&#8217;s clearly explained to him how to do it.  It inspires such confidence knowing that our Treasury Secretary can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>profiteers</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2008/05/29/profiteers/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2008/05/29/profiteers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott McClellan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The left should be grateful to this president for all the money they have made off of his presidency.  Criticism of President Bush is a very profitable business.  We have numerous examples of this, from former WH aides and former military personnel to talk show hosts with no greater purpose in life than to criticize [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>more cheap shots</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2008/04/09/more-cheap-shots/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2008/04/09/more-cheap-shots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA['08 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Schultz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently my previous post struck a nerve with my buddy Chris.  I don&#8217;t recall saying anything about cheap shots being the sole domain of the Democrats.  I also think there&#8217;s a difference between saying something really stupid, like the GOP Congressional candidate he mentions in his post, and calling a candidate a &#8220;warmonger&#8221; and a &#8220;blatant [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>duh</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/09/26/duh/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/09/26/duh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA['08 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently there are still folks who not only believe the Democrats have made a serious attempt to end the war in Iraq, they also believe that electing a Democrat as President in 2008 will mean all of the troops come home. Unless the country decides to take a chance on Kucinich, Gravel, or Richardson, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>hurry up and wait</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/09/19/hurry-up-and-wait/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/09/19/hurry-up-and-wait/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Ramirez in Investor&#8217;s Business Daily:
We live in a society with a short attention span, bent on immediate gratification.
One wonders if Americans today would support a war that took eight years to introduce democracy, four more years to finalize a constitutional framework, two additional years to establish a working government and two years beyond that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>george will gives up on iraq</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/09/12/george-will-gives-up-on-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/09/12/george-will-gives-up-on-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Petraeus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;A democracy, wrote the diplomat and scholar George Kennan, &#8220;fights for the very reason that it was forced to go to war. It fights to punish the power that was rash enough and hostile enough to provoke it &#8212; to teach that power a lesson it will not forget, to prevent the thing from happening [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>this surge strategy could work</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/07/19/this-surge-strategy-could-work/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/07/19/this-surge-strategy-could-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer:
Ever since the December 2005 Iraqi elections, the U.S. has been waiting for the central government in Baghdad to pass grand national accords on oil, federalism and de-Baathification to unify and pacify the country. The al-Maliki government has proved too sectarian, too weak and perhaps too disposed to Iranian interests to rise to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>after iraq</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/07/11/after-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/07/11/after-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As long as President Bush is still in the White House, it&#8217;s hard to imagine that the Democrats in Congress can get enough support from the Republicans on the other side to abandon the war in Iraq entirely or just to de-fund it.  There will be a few defectors. We have already seen them start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fun with quotes</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/05/24/fun-with-quotes/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/05/24/fun-with-quotes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 17:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA['08 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Edwards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who said this:
Saddam Hussein&#8217;s regime represents a grave threat to America and our allies, including our vital ally, Israel. For more than two decades, Saddam Hussein has sought weapons of mass destruction through every available means. We know that he has chemical and biological weapons. He has already used them against his neighbors and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>good point</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/04/26/good-point-2/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/04/26/good-point-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WITHOUT meaning to do so, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has pushed the debate on Iraq in a new direction.Reid claims that the war is lost and that the United States has already been defeated.
By advancing the claim, Reid has moved the debate away from the initial antiwar obsession with the legal and diplomatic controversies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>depressing</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/03/20/depressing/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/03/20/depressing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s easy to understand why the united states would be cautious in trusting the iraqis. one wrong decision could put more american lives at risk. however, i wonder whether we have been missing opportunities to keep the iraqis who don&#8217;t support the insurgents from switching sides. that&#8217;s one conclusion to be drawn from this new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the plame game act II</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/03/17/the-plame-game-act-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/03/17/the-plame-game-act-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[valerie plame wilson was outed as a CIA agent way before richard armitage and scooter libby got involved in this mess. the original claim didn&#8217;t come just from the bush administration, but also from the media.
andy mccarthy(nro):
Specifically, she was exposed by a Russian spy in the early 1990s.  Thereafter, the CIA itself &#8220;inadvertently&#8221; compromised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>not so fast</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/02/24/not-so-fast/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/02/24/not-so-fast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[for those who would like to characterize tony blair&#8217;s withdrawal of british troops from basra as an admission that he was wrong about iraq, here&#8217;s an opposing point of view.
gerald baker:
The first point to note, is that, as the prime minister himself said in his statement to the House of Commons, the British troop presence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>questions and debate</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/02/20/questions-and-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/02/20/questions-and-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[we are still not having an honest debate about iraq. why is it that we cannot, even now, thoughtfully engage the arguments for and against bush’s troop surge without accusing one side or the other of trying to gain political advantage? being against the war is a popular position to take, so it is neither [...]]]></description>
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		<title>who said this?</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/01/31/who-said-this/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/01/31/who-said-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[fire up the delorean and check out this blast from the past.
The United States favors an Iraq that offers its people freedom at home. I categorically reject arguments that this is unattainable due to Iraq&#8217;s history or its ethnic or sectarian make-up. Iraqis deserve and desire freedom like everyone else. The United States looks forward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cause confused</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/01/28/cause-confused/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/01/28/cause-confused/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moonbats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s fun to mock the dimbulbs who are usually the voices of the anti-war protests. cindy sheehan, jane fonda, the code pink(os), various hollywood celebs like sean penn, and clueless politicians like dennis kucinich (who once proposed a department of peace)&#8230;all of these people have credibility problems because of their statements about our president and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>no surrender</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/01/11/no-surrender/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2007/01/11/no-surrender/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War on Terror]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[you can agree or disagree with the specifics of the president&#8217;s plan for iraq that he explained to us last night. it&#8217;s hard to say whether this will work or not, but i have confidence that we will hold up our end of the deal, at least as long as president bush is in office. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>saddam&#8217;s death</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2006/12/30/saddams-death/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2006/12/30/saddams-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[cnn has the story and the video of his execution here(with a graphic content warning) if you really want to see it.
andy mccarthy at NRO:
This is a solemn, important moment.  It&#8217;s not a joyous one.  An evil man deserved to die.  His elimination was necessary — not close to sufficient, but necessary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>unrealism</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2006/12/07/unrealism/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2006/12/07/unrealism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War on Terror]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[that is the best way to describe the majority of the baker/hamilton commission (ISG) report. it is long on analysis, and short on workable solutions. full text here(pdf). the most delusional part of this report is the part where the authors insist that neighboring countries such as iran and syria really do want a stable [...]]]></description>
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