BERKELEY, Calif.   Local officials in this liberal city say it’s time for the U.S. Marines to move out.
The City Council has voted to tell the Marines their downtown recruiting station is not welcome and “if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome guests.”
The measure passed this week by a vote of 8-1. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327347,00.html http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_8120433?source=rss
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By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Growing numbers of people think the U.S. is making progress in Iraq and will eventually be able to claim some success there, a poll showed Tuesday in a sign the politics of the war could become more complicated for Democrats.With diminishing U.S. and Iraqi casualties and the start [...]

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…..this is a recent recount by a local Iraqi and it reflects the present reality - unplugged and untainted… I obtained the the authors permission to post it…
It was long time since I wrote commenting on Baghdad and it’s Battle to restore stability and services in it’s hard fight against violence and criminal groups . It [...]

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now, here is a interesting thought…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  November 1, 2007     CONTACT:  Gary Becks (619) 334-1655   San Diego, CA - Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) today recommended to President Bush a proposal to replace State Department personnel who refuse to be deployed to Baghdad with wounded veterans from military hospitals at Walter Reed and Bethesda [...]

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IN THE FACE OF MEDIA indifference, the facts on the ground in Iraq have changed dramatically and for the better. The deaths of Iraqi civilians over the past two months have declined precipitously. Before the surge and its accompanying change in tactics took effect, often 3,000 Iraqis would die violent deaths in a month, directly [...]

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Every day we hear Republicans and Democrats give their perspectives on the war in Iraq, and as a soldier that gives me great pride that a lively and open debate is allowed in our country - but what Americans rarely hear, or are willing to listen to are stories that don’t fit their side of [...]

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Do we have the fortitude to stand behind our troops? And the fortitude to stand strong for them? The problem lies with our politicians in Washington who use the war in Iraq as a political football instead of realizing lives are at stake. The public then loses hope that the Iraq war is a winnable [...]

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Ronald Reagan understood a fundamental truth: Defense policy is foreign policy. The decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to remove the 2007 Defense Authorization Bill from Senate consideration last week demonstrates the Democratic leadership’s obsession with short-term political victories which have weakened America’s overall strategic position in the world. On Friday, the President [...]

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Perhaps excepting those who’ve been hiding in a cave with Osama bin Laden for the past year, people throughout the world know there is a deep political division between President Bush and Senate Democrats about the war in Iraq.
So what exactly was the point of putting on an all-night show for the cameras on an [...]

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A writer who goes by the penname Scott Thomas has written three articles for the Washington political magazine the New Republic in the past five months. Thomas is said to an active-duty soldier granted anonymity to protect him from being punished by his superiors. But is he really who he claims to be?
Rival magazine the [...]

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