Backdoor Draft
Rumsfeld to the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team: instead of going home after a year in Iraq, I’m sending you to Baghdad for four months.
Lurch at Main and Central and DJH Lights at Exit Stage Left cover the basics that can be found in the MSNBC article.
Saturday’s All Things Considered checks with the families in: Home Base Weighs In on Extended Iraq Stay for Brigade .
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Grapes of Wrath – the Second Pressing
If you are going to repeat a failed campaign you should at a bare minimum avoid the worst mistakes of the original.
Operation Grapes of Wrath started a decade ago with the same cast of characters. The original Qana Massacre is a Lebanese day of remembrance.
While CNN reports Israeli air attack kills 60 civilians, including 19 children, BBC runs Analysis: A second Qana Massacre?
Juan Cole titles his post: The Qana Massacre, Part II.
The US Secretary of State was told in no uncertain terms that she is not welcome in Beirut, and the American embassy could be pulled down by crowds of angry Lebanese.
Why is the IDF general staff trying to destroy the state of Israel?
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Passing the Plate
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