3,000th GI Killed In Iraq

According to the web site Icasualties.org, the number of U.S. servicemember casualties in Iraq has reached the 3,000 mark. The web site, which tracks American deaths in both Iraq and Afghanistan, reported the latest casualty this afternoon. He was Spc. Dustin R....

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Saddam Hanging Video Leak

Long Live Live Leak. WARNING: GRAPHIC. This shows Saddam Hussein dropping through the hanging platform, and then a closeup of his face immediately after. You know you want to see it.

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Triumph

HBO: Rome: About the Show Founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, the Republic was created to prevent any one man from seizing absolute control. It is a society where soldiers can rise up from provincial commoners to become national...

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Hagel Shrugged?

Chuck Hagel, one of the few sane Republicans left standing, will not run for President, according to this source. Heck, he's not even going to run for reelection to his Senate seat.

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Live and Lose

While some neocons may hold up the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia as a "model" for American strategy in Iraq, the reality on the ground is proving them wrong (once again!): Hundreds of Somalis flooded into bullet-pocked boulevards to hurl rocks at the Ethiopian...

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Obama, Reconsidered

Well, yes, I was a little harsh on Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois), putative presidential candidate and the fave rave of the Democratic net-roots, but then again I believe his position -- as expressed most recently in this "Letter to the President" -- is rapidly...

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WMD Cargo Cult

Remember the lost "weapons of mass destruction"? Saddam was supposed to be saving them up for one final blast of malevolence, but, somehow, they got misplaced in the shuffle. The ever-inventive Clifford May, of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, is on...

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GOP Goes Antiwar

Bob Novak on growing opposition to our crazed foreign policy of perpetual war inside the GOP [via Kos]: The debate inside the Republican Party is whether the mid-term election defeat was solely the result of unhappiness over Iraq or constituted deeper concern with the...

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A New Cold War With Russia?

Senator Richard Lugar (R-Indiana), a major power when it comes to forging our "bipartisan" foreign policy of global meddling, thinks we are at "war" -- "energy war" -- with Russia. Over at Dailykos.com, Jérôme Guillet, a Paris-based banker and an authority on...

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