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Petraeus stays out of mosque debate
The Swampby Mike Memoli America's top commander in Afghanistan is staying out of the debate raging back home over a proposed Islamic community center and mosque to be constructed blocks from Ground Zero. David Petraeus, speaking with Fox News Channel's Jennifer......Tags: New York, Afghanistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions
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GOP prebuttals: McCain, McConnell and Boehner
The Swampby Mike Memoli The common theme as Republicans comment ahead of President Obama's Iraq speech tonight is that he should acknowledge the surge strategy he opposed as a U.S. senator is what made tonight's announcement possible. From a speech given......Tags: Iraq, Republican Party, Mitch McConnell, Barack Obama, Afghanistan
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Obama on Iraq, and the economy
The SwampPresident Obama's speech from the Oval Office, as prepared for delivery, is available after the jump.......Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Family, Health and Medical Professionals, Injuries and Wounds, Veterans Affairs
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John McCain: Obama's Iraq tour revealing
The Swampby Mark Silva With so much attention focused on Sen. Barack Obama's tour of Afghanistan, Iraq and Europe, Sen. John McCain was asked this morning if he's finding it "a little hard to make news.'' Actually, McCain suggested, Obama will......Tags: Harry Smith, National Government, Government, Barack Obama, Diplomacy
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Memos to Obama and McCain
The Swampby Michael Tackett Memo to the Obama campaign: It's too early to start measuring the drapes. Too early to be thinking of the inaugural ball, fancy titles, the state dinners, the portal-to-portal service to and from work, the codes to......Tags: Sports, Chicago Cubs, Political Candidates, John McCain, Polls
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Petraeus: Like MacArthur, weighs in on policy
Spin CycleGen. Petraeus, who apparently has some special military rank in which his duties include giving newspaper interviews to tell policymakers what they should do and trying to influence the course of presidential elections, weighs in with McClatchy:...Tags: National Government, Government, Political Candidates, Elections, Wars and Interventions
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McCain, Obama, Bush: A nation at war
The Swampby Mark Silva The war returns to the campaign stage this week, with Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama in line for the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Orlando today and Tuesday, followed by the vacationing President Bush on......Tags: Orange County Convention Center, Natural Disasters, People, Meteorological Disasters, Hurricanes
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U.S. to transfer military control of Anbar
The Swampby Aamer Madhani For much of the first five years of the Iraq War, the U.S. struggle to pacify Anbar province seemed like a quixotic effort. The western province was where U.S. forces saw some of the fiercest fighting since......Tags: Population, NATO, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Unrest, Armed Conflicts
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Obama: Bush's troop moves too little
The Swampby Mark Silva Barack Obama, who has pledged to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months of his election as president, today dismissed President Bush's declared "next step forward'' as too little - and attempted to connect his Republican......Tags: Armed Conflicts, Diplomacy, Political Candidates, John McCain, Politics
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Bush: Few troop pullouts by term's end
The Swampby Mark Silva It was Donald Rumsfeld, the former secretary of defense, who famously said, "You go to war with the Army you have.'' And now President Bush effectively is saying that the United States will fight the war in......Tags: White House, Ike Skelton, Political Candidates, John McCain, Politics
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Petraeus moves up and out of Iraq
The Swampby Frank James Gen. David Petraeus, architect of the U.S. military's surge strategy, now widely viewed as a great success for bringing down the levels of violence in Iraq, officially turned over command of U.S. and allied forces in......Tags: United States, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), History, Douglas MacArthur, Robert Gates
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Robert Wexler wants your sympathy, money and votes
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsU.S. Rep. Robert Wexler is looking for sympathy, money and votes. In a new fundraising and get-out-the-vote letter, Wexler tells constituents that he faces his "most difficult re-election ever" as he faces "two millionaire opponents" that he says "are...Tags: Boca Raton, Voting, Veterans Affairs, Politics, National Government
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