Tag Archives: Afghanistan
Morning Five: Karzai says okay to a runoff
1. Karzi vs. Abdullah Abdullah on November 7th - Afghanistan President Hamid Karzi agreed to a runoff election on November 7th against his closest challenger, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. It seems that there was a tad of election fraud the first go-round, with as many as one THIRD of the sitting President’s votes being [...]
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Rick Sanchez Sucks
1. Karzi rejects UN Election Fraud Findings – Hamid Karzi isn’t exactlly sparking confidence in the Obama Administration. Now he’s rejected findings by the U.N. that says there should be a runoff between him and his closest challenger, Abdullah Abdullah. Who is perhaps a man so nice they named him twice? Anyway… if a strong [...]
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1. 8 Years since the U.S. took on the Taliban – Eight years ago today the United States launched air strikes against targets in Afghanistan. President Obama is currently facing one of the biggest Foreign Policy decisions in the last decade, and it can be summed up in two words: “Now what?”
(From Global Post)
2. Joe [...]
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Afghanistan Questions
1. Two Questions to ask before the President Sends more Troops – Can President Karzi rally the people of his country despite all the fraud allegations? And is it really worth it even if he can?
(From Slate)
2. Afghanistan was at one time, a beautiful and peaceful country - Back in the mid 1960s, an American [...]
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U.N. meeting on Climate Change
1. U.N. Climate Change Meeting Looks to Pick up the Pace – Is the clock really ticking? How can the world’s governments move faster? Are we really at a tipping point? Is there enough data? How can we overcome the economic impact? How much is this going to cost? How much will it cost if [...]
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President Obama to describe how to kill grandma in front of congress this evening
1. Healthcare Showdown Showtime - The President will address congress tonight… just as public opinion of the public option is publically tanking. (From The Hill)
2. Meanwhile, Fox Won’t show the Address - II don’t know what’s more sad. The bush-league move by Fox, or the fact that “So you think you can Dance” is fall [...]
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Lockerbie Bombing Convict to be released
1. Scottish Gov’t to release the only person convicted of Lockerbie Bombing – 270 people were killed when Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Scotland and crashed into the ground. One former Libyan Intelligence officer was convicted. There are some doubts to his guilt, and he’s been in prison every since. He has terminal cancer, [...]
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Cheney and CIA Can of Worms to be opened
1. Feds might start investigating Cheney to CIA: keep it quiet thing -
So the former VP told the CIA to not tell the Senate Intelligence Committee about some super-secret counter terrorism program. Now there’s pressure on the administration to launch an investigation. Seems like plenty of people know about the program, and you’d think it’d [...]
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Chrysler goes Chapter 11
1. Chrysler heads into Bankruptcy - Even a fake wood sided PT Cruiser won’t help them now. That’s right… not even THAT could help them now. Hope the company comes out of bankruptcy stronger than ever.
(From the NY Times)
2. 100 Days Presser: Enchanted? I’ll give you enchanted – NY Times reporter blows sweet smelling smoke [...]
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Navy SEALS – 3 Pirates – 0
1. Cargo Ship Captain Saved by Snipers – Three of the Four pirates expose their heads at the same time. The fourth was on the US Destroyer for negotiations. Snipers take out the three left on the boat and that’s that. But now that it has gotten violent, how does that change the overall situation?
A [...]
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Gay Marriage and Iowa. Together at last.
1. A win for Gay Marriage in… Iowa? - Unanimous ruling by Iowa’s State Supreme Court says their same sex marriage ban is unconstitutional. This happened in IOWA. All right Dubuque!
(From the WSJ, and no offense intended by the sign by the way. Love the good people of Iowa.)
2. North Korea STILL getting their rocket [...]
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Sayonara Mr. Wagoner
1. GM’s CEO steps down, because, well the President asked him to - You know you work for a HUGE company when the only guy who can really get your resignation out of you is the President of the United States. So now what? Some are calling GM’s Rick Wagoner a scape goat, some say [...]
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Afghanistan Revamp
1. President Obama’s Plan for Afghanistan - Funding for operations in Afghanistan will jump 60%. Investing in economic development + cracking down on extremists = better safer future for everyone. As we were reminded in the movie Charlie Wilson’s War: “These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world… and then we fucked [...]
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Bush and Cheney don’t like each other right now
1. Obama Signs Stimulus, launches www.Recovery.gov -
Ooooo, it’s got it’s own WEBSITE. Let’s take this 800 Billion dollar thing for a spin. Wait, there’s already talk of a second? (From CS Monitor and the Huffington Post)
2. Obama to send 17,000 Troops to Afghanistan – It’s his first major Commander-in-Chief type decision. (From Reuters)
3. Roland Burris [...]
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Assassination in Islamabad