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Democrats

Lieberman’s TEA party and dual loyalty

May 7, 2010

Joe Lieberman’s Terrorist Expatriation Act is designed to strip the constitutional rights from any American who is accused of supporting terrorism, but the political sentiment he’s tapping into is simply, America first. Does Lieberman have no concern about where this might go?
How about this New Yorker who Max Blumenthal interviewed recently? Presumably she’s an American [...]

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Why liberals kill

October 20, 2009

Why liberals kill
By Thaddeus Russell, The Daily Beast, October 17, 2009
The left may be pressuring President Obama to exit Afghanistan. But their heroes—from FDR to JFK—promoted U.S. involvement in more wars than all modern GOP presidents combined.
Should President Barack Obama continue his escalation of the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it will be the liberal [...]

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NEWS & ANALYSIS: War funding

November 19, 2007

Pentagon is left scrambling to pay for war
By Gordon Lubold, Christian Science Monitor, November 19, 2007
Congress’s failure last week to agree whether and how to fund the war puts the onus on the Pentagon, at least for now, to find a way to cover expenses in Iraq, potentially forcing the Defense Department to close dozens [...]

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NEWS: The not-so hidden costs of war

November 13, 2007

‘Hidden costs’ double price of two wars, Democrats say
By Josh White, Washington Post, November 13, 2007
The economic costs to the United States of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so far total approximately $1.5 trillion, according to a new study by congressional Democrats that estimates the conflicts’ “hidden costs”– including higher oil prices, the expense [...]

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REVIEW: The Second Civil War

November 13, 2007

Division of the U.S. didn’t occur overnight
By Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, November 13, 2007
During President George W. Bush’s first term, one of his senior political advisers summed up the prevailing philosophy at the White House like this: “This is not designed to be a 55 percent presidency,” he said. “This is designed to be [...]

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OPINION & EDITOR’S COMMENT: The options table

November 13, 2007

Will wou attack Iran?
By Ezra Klein, The American Prospect, November 8, 2007
In the last few weeks, the Democratic field has settled on an attack against the frontrunner: Doublespeak. “I believe Senator Clinton should be held to the same standard that every one of us should be held to,” says John Edwards. “Tell the truth, no [...]

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OPINION: Pseudo-antiwar Democrats

October 25, 2007

The trap that is Iraq
By Tom Oliphant, The Guardian, October 24, 2007
Hidden in plain sight is the one issue still capable of blowing up the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
It isn’t Iran, outsider-insider, lobbyist relations or healthcare.
It’s the war in Iraq.
The mass media illusion – and also delusion – is that the Democrats, generally, [...]

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OPINION & EDITOR’S COMMENT: The phoenix of preventive war arises from Syrian ashes

October 14, 2007

Preemption, Israeli style
By Joshua Muravchik, Los Angeles Times, October 14, 2007
Last month, one of the more mysterious episodes in the history of the Arab-Israel conflict began to leak slowly into the news. Although the facts are still unconfirmed, what seems to have happened has major implications not only for the region but even more for [...]

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NEWS & OPINION: Putin, Clinton, and the GOP buffoons on Iran and the end of the world

October 10, 2007

Putin: no proof Iran is trying to make nuclear weapons
By Mark Tran, The Guardian, October 10, 2007
There is no proof Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons programme, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said today.
But he said Tehran should make its atomic activity “as transparent as possible”.
“We do not have data that says Iran is trying [...]

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OPINION: Upholding the Constitution

October 7, 2007

How Congress forgot its own strength
By Mario Cuomo, New York Times, October 7, 2007
Senators Jim Webb of Virginia and Hillary Clinton of New York are right to demand that the president go before Congress to ask for a “declaration of war” before proceeding with an attack against Iran or any other nation. But there is [...]

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OPINION & EDITOR’S COMMENT: The Democrats’ failure to challenge Bush’s Mideast policies

October 2, 2007

How the Democrats blew it
By Gary Kamiya, Salon, October 2, 2007
The fact that Democrats have eagerly participated in Bush and the neocons’ campaign to demonize Iran shows that they have learned nothing from Iraq. The Democrats know that Bush lives in his own world outside the “reality-based community,” one in which rational behavior is not [...]

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EDITORIAL: The future of democracy depends on abandoning the war metaphor

August 3, 2007

The future of democracy depends on abandoning the war metaphor
By Paul Woodward, War in Context, August 3, 2007
If presidential candidates can’t come up with some intelligent foreign policy positions, it’s time that they followed State Department advice: shut up — at least for a while.
In just three days we’ve heard candidates proposing sending troops into [...]

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