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Dicking Afghanistan: Where Obama Went Wrong

Washington Post ace Al Kamen has an outtake from Woodward’s new book that shows how Obama was on the wrong foot on Afghanistan from his first days in office: “It wasn’t until well into the Obama presidency,” Woodward writes, that vet

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How We Brought Freedom & Prosperity to Afghanistan

posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation, from the May issue of Freedom Daily – BRINGING FREEDOM & PROSPERITY TO AFGHANISTAN by James Bovard The Obama administration is seeking to rechristen the Afghan debacle it inherited from the Bush administration. Obama’s efforts to legitimize the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan simply ignore the previous […]

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Government Lies Make Leaks Explosive

The Pentagon is caterwauling that the next round of WikiLeaks’ disclosures of US government documents will be even more damaging than the last round. It is always touching to see the world’s most powerful military machine portray itself as a “pitiful, helpless giant” (the phrase Nixon used in his speech announcing his illegal invasion of […]

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