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POPSRAND: 101,000 American casualties PER YEAR in Iraq/Afghanistan Time for outrage: Look what neocons and passive congresses have done to us! How can we write off responsibility for the deaths and wounds of half a millions Americans and live with no accountability whatsoever? How can we be so immoral as to shrug our shoulders and just elect someone else? Where is justice? (and we haven't even begun to touch the enormity of the losses to innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan.)
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POPSDOD's Defense University: Iraq a "major debacle" "the war in Iraq is a classic case of failure" - from former senior Pentagon official who served under Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, writing report for the Department of Defense's elite school of national defense. Puts McCain and Lieberman at odds with professional military eval of the war.
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POPSCharleston Gazette endorses "appeals to the innate decency in ... people;" "right about Iraq when many of us were wrong ... the single greatest national security question- and mistake- of our time."
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POPSUSA paralyzed by Iraq Like Johnson's "Great Society", which fell over Vietnam, a host of domestic issues go un-addressed, as $3 trillion goes to Iraq
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POPSMcCain whiffs on Shi'ites & Sunnis yet again! "and repeated the false claim that Muqtada al-Sadr declared the ceasefire in Basra last week." Would your average armchair news-watcher make that mistake? Again and again? This is important, friends, not as a put-down of McCain, but as an essential part of the evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of candidates for the most powerful elected office on earth. Does he have it together on the basics of foreign policy?