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Pete Buttigieg Destroys The Latest House GOP Abuse Of Power To Help Trump
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took apart the motives behind a House Republican report on the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Wait, What?: Graham Claims Personal Relationship With Biden Hit “Breaking Point” Over Afghanistan
Speaking to Fox News, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C. said his personal relationship with President Joe Biden hit a “breaking point” following the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal in the wake of the Taliban seizing power. “I’ve known Joe Biden for a long time, I had a good personal relationship with him. He’s a decent man. But what…
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Trump Attacks Biden Over Afghanistan Mess He Caused in Rambling Fox News Interview
During an interview with Fox News personality Greg Gutfeld, former President Donald Trump insisted that President Joe Biden’s handling of the evacuation from Afghanistan was a “travesty.” He drew spurious connections between Afghanistan and security along the United States-Mexico border. “I don’t know if he is a nice president,” Trump said. “But I can tell…
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Trump on Afghanistan: “We Should Have Hit That Country Years Ago… And Let It Rot”
Former President Donald Trump offered no solutions for what should have gone down in Afghanistan or how he would have handled the withdrawal, but he nonetheless offered his idea of what his administration would have done had they been in charge of it. During an appearance on Fox Business, Trump suggested that his administration would…
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Ben Sasse Claims Biden Administration Exhibited “Cowardice” over Afghanistan Withdrawal
Senator Ben Sasse (R-Nebr.) has been one of the more prominent among the chorus of Republicans criticizing the Biden administration over the Afghanistan withdrawal and appears to have taken a more hardline position on the withdrawal than he did during the Trump administration. Sasse released a statement calling the withdrawal a “national disgrace.” “This national…
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Lauren Boebert Claims U.S. Left Behind $85 Billion of Military Equipment to the Taliban. She is Wrong.
Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) claimed that the United States left behind $85 billion of military equipment to the Taliban amid the chaotic evacuation process. “No one involved should be able to keep their job after that,” Boebert claimed. We left behind $85 billion of military equipment to terrorists who chant “Death to Americaâ€. No one…
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National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Stresses Administration’s Commitment to Getting Remaining Americans Out of Afghanistan
National security adviser Jake Sullivan stressed that President Joe Biden and his administration remain committed to getting Americans who’ve remained in Afghanistan out via diplomatic means. “We continue our mission to get them out, it’s just that it has shifted from a military mission to a diplomatic mission. And we have considerable leverage over the…
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Republicans Looking to Add $25 Billion to Military Budget Even as Afghan War Ends
Congressional Republicans are looking to add $25 billion to the nation’s military budget even as the war in Afghanistan, its longest military conflict, ends. Republicans aim to employ a National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) amendment that would add $25 billion to President Joe Biden’s $753 billion military spending request for the next fiscal year. The…
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OAN Host Christina Bobb: If You Are an American in Afghanistan, Ignore Terror Warnings and Go to The Airport
Before he left office, Donald Trump made a deal with the Taliban to leave Afghanistan. Once he took office, Joe Biden and his team worked on getting Americans out of Afghanistan. And now that the end date is coming, there is still a major effort to get people out of the nation. But Conservative media…
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WATCH: Chris Wallace Slams McConnell Over His Desire for Full Scale War in Afghanistan
Back in April of his year, nearly 70% of Americans agreed that it was time to pull troops from Afghanistan. There was strong b-partisan support for the measure and Donald Trump has repeatedly talked about bringing the troops home. But now that Joe Biden has executed his plan, many Republicans seem to be getting cold…
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Obama Issues “Heartbroken” Commemoration for Those Lost in Kabul Airport Attack
Former President Barack Obama commented on the Kabul airport attack, offering a “heartbroken” commemoration for those who were lost. 13 American service members were killed in the attack, along with 72 Afghans who were trying to evacuate the country. “Like so many of you, Michelle and I were heartbroken to hear about the terrorist attack…
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Former CIA Agent Phil Mudd: A Better Plan to Leave Afghanistan Wasn’t Really Possible [VIDEO]
Today, 12 Marines were killed by an ISIS suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Republicans almost immediately went on the attack against the Biden administration. Spineless Missouri lawmaker Josh Hawley even called on the president to resign. But after Donald Trump made his deal with the Taliban, Phil Mudd told Jake Tapper on Thursday, there weren’t really…
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Newsmax’s Steve Cortes: Even if We Promised Afghani Contractors Visas, We Shouldn’t Give Them to Them
The United States military was in Afghanistan for 20 years. And the forces couldn’t operate in the region alone. The military had help from thousands of Afghani’s that risked their safety by working with the Americans. Now that Afghanistan is unstable, the country is keeping a promise made to those contractors and many will be…
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Pentagon Confirms There’s Been an Explosion at Kabul Airport
The Pentagon has confirmed that there’s been an explosion at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, the site of the ongoing evacuation efforts of American citizens and Afghan allies led by the United States military. “We can confirm an explosion outside Kabul airport. Casualties are unclear at this time. We will provide additional details when…
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Betsy DeVos’ Mercenary Brother Erik Prince is Offering to Get Americans Out of Afghanistan for $6.5K Each
The Biden Administration has known that they would be pulling troops out of Afghanistan for months. The plans to do so were set in motion when Donald Trump was still in office. And the Biden administration has spent those months reaching out to Americans living in the Middle Eastern country in an effort to get…
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Steve Scalise Complains About Afghanistan After Democrats Pass Budget Blueprint
Representative Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House Minority Whip, criticized President Joe Biden after the House of Representatives passed a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint that will expand the social safety net and climate programs. Although Biden is not directly responsible for passing legislation––that duty falls to Congress––Scalise is of the opinion that the President can’t support…
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Former GWB Campaign Chief Matthew Dowd: Joe Biden Has Done an Extremely Good Job on Afghanistan and Deserves to Be Congratulated [VIDEO]
A large majority of Americans on both sides of the aisle wanted to military out of Afghanistan. A poll taken this Spring showed that nearly 70% of respondents supported an end to the war. So Joe Biden, for that reason and others, went ahead and did it. And the president has taken blowback from of…
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Listen: Fox News’ Sean Hannity Says the Only Option is For the US to Reinvade Afghanistan
Over the last number of years, 3 different presidents have had the opportunity to finally pull troops of out of Afghanistan. This month, Joe Biden became the president who actually did it. In explaining his actions, the president told Americans, “After 20 years I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time…
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WATCH: Fox’s Faulkner Says if Kamala Harris Cares About Women She’ll Go to Afghanistan and “Own It”
After the disastrous presidency of Donald Trump, it can be easy to forget that Kamala Harris is the country’s first female Vice President. The anchors of Fox News, however, have not forgotten about her gender. In fact, Fox personalities regularly use Harris as a scapegoat for anything they feel is going wrong with the country….
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Harris: Administration “Singularly Focused” on Evacuating Americans, Afghan Allies, At-Risk Afghans
Speaking during a news conference in Singapore alongside the country’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, Vice President Kamala Harris said the Biden administration is “singularly focused” on evacuating Americans, Afghan allies, and at-risk Afghans as the security situation continues to deteriorate in Kabul following the Taliban takeover. “I think there’s going to be plenty of…
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Fox’s Latest Conspiracy Theory: 3rd Booster Shot is an Attempt to Distract From Afghanistan
Amazingly enough, despite a readily available vaccine, the country is now going through another wave of COVID-19 cases.Hospitalizations and deaths are up, especially in red states where far fewer people have been vaccinated. And there are also worries that the original vaccines could wane in efficacy over time. The White House recently announced that a…
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Ronny Jackson Projects, Insists Biden No Longer “Cognitively Prepared To Be Our President.â€
Representative Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), claimed that President Joe Biden is no longer “cognitively prepared to be our president,” becoming the latest Republican politician to rip into Biden over the still-unfolding crisis in Afghanistan. “We’re looking horrible right now on the world stage. This is an absolute national embarrassment and instead of being out in front…
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McCarthy Slammed for Criticizing Afghanistan Withdrawal
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) took to Twitter to criticize President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan, fulfilling an agreement initiated by former President Donald Trump and his administration. “President Biden’s weak leadership damaged our reputation, emboldened our enemies, and—most distressingly—left thousands of American lives in hostile territory with no guarantee…
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Fox News Personality Mark Levin Goes on Absurd Rant, Claims Taliban “Gave Safe Harbor to Obama”
Fox News personality Mark Levin claimed that the Taliban, which has over the last few days seized control of Afghanistan, “gave safe harbor” to former President Barack Obama. “When the hell is the media in this country, or the flunkies who sound like the media in this country going to get over this?” he said…
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Barbara Lee, Only Member of Congress to Vote Against Afghanistan in 2001, Wants U.S. To Learn from Mistakes
Representative Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who was the only member of Congress to vote against the war in Afghanistan in 2001, says the United States must learn from its mistakes and reconsider the president’s ability to control troops moving forward. “Congress has a responsibility to debate and authorize the use of force. We don’t give it…
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Pentagon Confirms U.S. Has Resumed Air Operations in Kabul
John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said that the United States has resumed its air operations at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul and working to maintain security. The U.S. has flown in about 1,000 troops into Afghanistan, he said, bringing the total number of troops in the country to 3,500. 700 to 800…
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Chinese State Media Mocks U.S., Says Afghanistan Withdrawal “More Smooth Than Presidential Transition”
A Chinese state media tabloid mocked the United States amid the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and compared it to the presidential transition from former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden. “Chinese netizens joked that the power transition in Afghanistan is even more smooth than presidential transition in the US,” tweeted Hu Xijin, who is…
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Donald Trump Had a Plan to Pull Troops Out of Afghanistan May 1st, But Gaslighting Kayleigh McEnany Says He Wouldn’t Have Followed Through [VIDEO]
The idea of pulling American troops out of Afghanistan has long been popular with voters. A poll conducted in April by the Morning Consult found that 69% of Americans supported pulling troops out of the region. Donald Trump supported the idea of bringing the military back home. And under his plan, it would have happened…
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CNN’s Twitter Feed Destroys Walking Punchline Ted Cruz After He Criticizes Reporter
Ted Cruz has spent much of the last year as a walking punch line. You would never know it from his Twitter feed, though. The Texas senator frequently and without a sense of irony bashes other law makers and media personalities. He tried to do this on Monday, ripping into CNN’s Clarissa Ward for reporting…
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WH Deputy National Security Adviser Says U.S. Has Made Clear to Taliban Not to Interfere with Afghans Trying to Evacuate
White House Deputy National Security Adviser Jonathan Finer said the United States has made clear to the Taliban not to interfere with Afghans attempting to get to Kabul airport for potential evacuation as the nation collapses. He noted that President Joe Biden is “deeply engaged” on all policy matters related to Afghanistan. “The President has…
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Republican Party Removes Page Praising Trump’s Taliban Deal
In the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the Republican Party has removed a page from its website that praised former President Donald Trump’s peace deal with the Taliban and his pledge to withdraw American troops from the embattled nation. Below is a screenshot of the archived page, which was recorded by the Wayback…
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Trump Comments on “Tragic Mess” in Afghanistan, Asks: “Do You Miss Me Yet?”
Former President Donald Trump has issued a statement remarking on what he called the “tragic mess” in Afghanistan and other issues, such as high inflation, that are directly affecting the United States. “Tragic mess in Afghanistan, a completely open and broken Border, Crime at record levels, oil prices through the roof, inflation rising, and taken…
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Sanders Praises Biden for Pledging to Pull Out of Afghanistan, Says Trump Was Right About Ending “Endless Wars”
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) praised President Joe Biden for pledging to pull troops out of Afghanistan and noted that former President Donald Trump was correct about trying to end “endless wars.” “What President Biden is doing is picking up on the negotiated agreement that President Trump put together,†Sanders said during an interview with Wolf…
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Trump Never Asked Vladimir Putin About Russian Bounties on U.S. Soldiers
Donald Trump has not discussed reports of Russian bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The President admitted he hadn’t confronted Vladimir Putin about the issue. The President gave an interview to Axios on HBO on Tuesday where he downplayed the intelligence on Russian bounties paid to the Talbian. He also confirmed he hadn’t mentioned them to his…
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi Calls Donald Trump A Hoax
Nancy Pelosi has responded with derision to Donald Trump’s claims that Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers are a hoax. The President has repeatedly asserted that the story isn’t true. The Speaker of the House spoke to the press on Thursday before a meeting of congressional leaders known as the Gang of Eight. She dismissed Trump’s…
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The Pentagon Was “Pounding Down the Door” to Get Trump To Respond to Russian Bounties on U.S. Soldiers
Pentagon officials tried desperately to get President Donald Trump to do something about Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers. That’s according to The Washington Post‘s David Ignatius. Ignatius spoke to MSNBC’s Morning Joe program on Monday. He said the Pentagon had tried to get the President to act but he had failed to do so, “Based on my reporting…
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Critics Savage Trump’s “Peace Deal” As U.S. Launches Airstrike Against Taliban
United States military officials earlier this morning confirmed that they’ve launched an airstrike against the Taliban in Afghanistan mere days after President Donald Trump boasted about brokering a peace deal with the group. A military spokesman told the press that the decision to launch the airstrike was made to interrupt a planned attack on a…
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Rep. Ted Lieu Exposes Trump’s Total Failure In Afghanistan
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) explained that Trump is so desperate for an agreement to end the war in Afghanistan because during the campaign he promised to get all US troops out.
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Senate Republicans Plan ‘Stunning Rebuke’ of Trump
Senate Republicans are not happy with Donald Trump, and today plan to take action that has been described as a “stunning rebuke†of the president. For weeks now, GOP senators have told Trump not to declare a national emergency to build a border wall. Mitch McConnell and other Republican Senate leaders have completely rejected his…
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Morning Tweetstorm Shows Trump Has Lost Touch With Reality
Donald Trump posted several tweets this morning that directly contradict national security intelligence on several major foreign policy matters, showing that he is doing actual damage to the country. When Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday, he drew significant media attention by breaking with multiple points Trump…
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U.S. forces apologize for ‘highly offensive’ Afghan propaganda leaflet
A senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan apologized on Wednesday for a “highly offensive” leaflet which contained a passage from the Quran used in the Taliban militants’ banner superimposed on to the image of a dog.
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Trump’s Afghanistan Speech Overshadowed By Endless Trail Of Anti-War Tweets
Trump has repeatedly used his favorite social media platform to call for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. On Monday, he will call for a troop surge.
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Trump Looks To Distract With Afghanistan Speech As 56% Call Charlottesville Response A Failure
A plurality of Americans also believes he is “putting white supremacists on equal standing with their opponents.”
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Jaws Drop As Dangerously Incoherent Trump Compares War In Afghanistan To A Restaurant
President Donald Trump has reached a dangerous level of incoherence as he wants to fire the top US commander in Afghanistan and base the nation’s war strategy on a fancy New York restaurant.
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Rachel Maddow Points Out The Clearest Sign Yet That Trump Is Terrified Over Russia Scandal
Maddow said Trump’s move to distract from the Sally Yates hearing was the most “cynical” thing she has seen in politics in “many, many years.”
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Crises in Middle East and North Korea and Trump Takes 18th Golf Trip in 12 Weeks
“Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf” Trump asked in 2014
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Worries Arise Over Where Trump’s Sudden Militarism Will Take Us
Trump’s isolationist hypocrisy is the least of our problems. It is where that hypocrisy is taking us, and at an ever-increasing pace
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Attacking Syria Was the Gateway Sexual Activity Republicans Usually Warn You About
As you can see from the polling, conservatives, far from reacting with outrage, have instead laid back and lit up in the post-coital afterglow
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Nancy Pelosi Demands Congressional Action To Stop Trigger-Happy Trump From Blowing Up The World
With Trump in charge of America’s nuclear arsenal – like a toddler playing with a loaded firearm – Congressional oversight is a necessity.
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Maxine Waters Says Trump Is No Longer Just A Bully – He’s A Clear And Present Danger To America
A bully armed with a Twitter account is one thing, but the same bully with access to America’s nuclear arsenal is a whole other ballgame.
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Trump’s War Of Distraction Continues As The U.S. Now Planning Preemptive Strike On North Korea
As the Russia scandal becomes increasingly explosive, so too does Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
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DNC Candidate Blasts Trump: He’s A ‘Draft-dodging Chickenhawk President’
“I’ll be damned if we’re going to have a draft-dodging chickenhawk president of the United States … ordering the people I served with back into another conflict.”
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New Year Wishes and a Warning: Stay Vigilant!
New Year is coming with mixed tidings, the good with the bad, with genuine evil in its wake, a Republican wrecking ball aimed right at us
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Why We Can’t Let Jeb Bush Pretend His Brother’s Wars Never Happened
Jeb doesn’t realize how critical it is he convince us he is not his brother, because the more you listen to him, the more alike they sound
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Brian Williams Gets Six Months To Think About Shameful Lie
Williams offends the proud tradition and moral demands of true journalism and, in particular, the memories of those who braved various war fronts around the world, sacrificing their lives in the process.
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Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention Act to be Signed into Law by President Obama Thursday
Something is finally about to be done about veteran suicide prevention, as Senate, House, and President join to make the Clay Hunt Act law.
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The Radical Right Can’t Handle The Truth From President Obama
The point is that all Christians should advocate and revere the truth with religious fervor; unless it is uttered by President Barack Obama at which point they “can’t handle the truth.”
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The Possibility of Obama Successfully Negotiating with Iran has GOP Freaking Out
Only Republicans would see a war slipping through their fingers as a loss, and losing this chance is almost too much for John Boehner to bear
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Republican Comparisons of Iraq and Vietnam Are Completely False and Hypocritical
If the Republicans win the White House in 2016, any new troop commitment to Iraq would be celebrated by Fox News rather than condemned.
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Obama Sends 1500 Advisers to Iraq – Fox News Freaks Out
As President Obama sends 1500 troops to Iraq to advise, train, and assist, Fox News sees only a broken promise and troops on the ground
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No Joke – Scholar Tells us President Obama Could Learn from President Bush
David Rothkopf says, “Bush recognized the urgent need for change and instituted a sweeping reordering of his administration, its policies and priorities.”
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Dem Rep Slams Do-Nothing Congress For Skipping Town Without Voting On War Authorization
During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) criticized Congress for leaving Washington on a lengthy recess without having a debate or vote on a new authorization for use of military force (AUMF) to be used in regards to the conflict with ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
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SOFA Has Become As Mythical for Fox News as George W. Bush
The one thing you will never hear mentioned by Fox News is SOFA. It gets in the way of their Obama is to blame for ISIL narrative
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John McCain Despicably Pushes For Full-Scale Middle East War During ISIS Senate Hearing
On Wednesday afternoon, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was his normal warmongering self as he grilled Secretary of State John Kerry over the Obama Administration’s strategy to deal with ISIS.
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Why Republicans Want America To Forget 9/11
It is unlikely any American over the age of three or four will forget 911, but it is highly likely the majority of Americans will forget the long-lasting devastation an incompetent Republican administration’s response wrought on the nation.
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Gallup: Republicans Better Able to Defend Against Terrorism, Keep America Prosperous
The GOP has been able to destroy this country while getting Americans to willingly participate in their own demise with flag-waving and cheers
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For Fox News, a Tired Old Hoax Trumps Obama Outperforming Reagan
Where does a strong economy get you when you’re a black president and outperform Reagan on job creation? It gets you to Benghazi.
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Fumbling Toward War: The GOP’s Foreign Policy of Hate
Republican foreign policy is a tortured and terrifying admixture of religious dogmatism, political ideology, and corporate thirst for profit
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Megyn Kelly Uses Bush’s Defense of Iraq Surge to Blame Obama for ISIL
All Megyn Kelly had to do is re-write history, ignoring the fact that Bush followed up his warning by signing SOFA, agreeing to withdraw US troops from Iraq
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ISIS: George W. Bush’s Legacy or America’s Spawn?
There is a well-known phrase in the Christian bible that “you reap what you sow.” America is now reaping what it sowed by invading innocent Muslim nations and brutalizing innocent civilians for well over a decade.
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CBS Allows John McCain And Lindsey Graham To Beat The War Drums Over Iraq And Israel
During Sunday’s broadcast of CBS’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer had on Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain. Both men were ostensibly on to discuss the recent issues in Israel, as well as the ongoing situation in Iraq.
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio Wants to Invade Mexico
Sheriff Joe doesn’t say how, precisely, U.S. troops would accomplish their mission once we’ve got boots on the ground but as we know from Iraq, Republicans don’t actually worry about such things
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President Obama Compares Neocon Strategy In Middle East To Playing ‘Whack-A-Mole’
Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC’s Morning Joe was able to score an interview with President Obama that aired on Monday morning. Obviously, the interview centered around the situation in Iraq and the growing sectarian violence, led by extremist group ISIS, that has rocked that country.
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Dick Cheney Claims Obama Is ‘Dead Wrong’ On Iraq While Rand Paul Insists Cheney Is To Blame
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos Sunday to discuss the recent violence in Iraq, as well as his infamous op-ed in the Wall Street Journal where he claimed that President Obama is directly responsible for the chaos in Iraq and the Middle East.
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What A Surprise! Neocon Warmonger Bill Kristol Wants Thousands Of US Troops In Iraq
During a panel discussion on Tuesday’s Morning Joe, neocon torchbearer and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol attempted to make the case that the United States needs to send thousands of troops into Iraq for an indefinite period of time without any clear mission.
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Bobby Jindal Signs Latest Blow in War on Women in Louisiana Church
America becomes less America and more Afghanistan with each passing day Republicans remain in control at any level of government.
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John McCain Predictably Blames Obama For Iraq Violence And Calls For Widespread Firings
During an interview on Morning Joe Friday morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) predictably placed the recent flare-up of ethnic violence in Iraq at the President’s feet.
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Conservative Racists Are Attacking the Bergdahl Family for Associating With Obama
The giveaway that all the animus toward Sergeant Bergdahl is based in conservative racism usually reserved for people of color, particular the person of color in the Oval Office, is the Republican hypocrisy they have demonstrated over the past five years holding President Obama to a different set of standards than his white Republican predecessors.
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GOP Congressman Callously Claims He’d Have Left Bergdahl With The Taliban Indefinitely
During yet another appearance on a Sunday show, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) appeared on ABC’s This Week to discuss the prisoner exchange that allowed the United States to retrieve Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the last American prisoner of war, from the Taliban.
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Lindsey Graham’s Threat to Impeach The President Is Racial Animus Towards Obama
Graham is doing his best to take up the slack and perpetuate racial animus toward people of color; particularly the person of color occupying the Oval Office.
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Drones Are Scary, But They’re the Answer to Asymmetrical Warfare
Five years into the drone campaign, there have been 2,400. killed, yet in Iraq, the ICCC offers a figure of 43,099 civilian casualties alone from from April 28, 2005 to August 22, 2008
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Lindsey Graham’s Ticked Off That Obama’s Releasing Gitmo Detainees and Ending the War
On Monday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sent a strongly worded letter to Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee.
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The Unhinged Conservative Reaction to Obama’s Foreign Policy Speech at West Point
Diplomacy may not be as profitable as war (Cheney’s Haliburton made $39.5 billion off the Iraq war alone), but our lives should not be seen as playthings of the 1 percent
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California Democrat Slams Republicans On Their Criticism Of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s Release
On Sunday afternoon, Democratic Congressional candidate James Kimber, who is running against Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) in California’s 50th District, contacted me to express his disgust with the tactics that Republicans are using to undermine the President.
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Gun Advocates Are Suing a Texas City For The Right to Terrify Motorists
A Texas city is being sued in federal court for violating the heavily-armed men’s 1st Amendment rights to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights to terrify motorists stuck in traffic.
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Republicans Lose Their Minds Over the Fact That the War in Afghanistan is Ending
The reaction from three Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee to the President’s announcement that America’s longest war was coming to an end was despicable and revealed that, in their minds, there is never a time to end war.
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With Blood on His Hands and Lies on Lips Lindsey Graham Accuses Obama of Losing Wars
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham thinks President Obama is emboldening the enemy by announcing a drawdown in Afghanistan. He accused Obama of “losing” wars.
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If Republicans Really Supported The Troops They Wouldn’t Propose Privatizing the VA
If Republicans supported the troops and appreciated the sacrifice of those who made it home alive then they would not propose privatizing the Veterans Administration.
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Chris Christie Wants a More Aggressive Foreign Policy in Very Messy, Difficult Places
Acting as though he would know right from wrong, Christie said America is “the strongest moral power for what is good and what is right in the world.”
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Ross Douthat Ignores Context and Facts to Make Obama a Foreign Policy Failure
Douthat also carefully avoids mention of Egypt, another Obama foreign policy success story, where the Obama administration’s moderating influence ensured that the Mubarak regime would be sent packing, and without the violence of a civil war.
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President’s State of the Union Speech Strikes Most of the Chords Dems Were Waiting For
I watched President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night. I was one of the 15% who did in my area of South Carolina.
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Stephen Colbert Brilliantly Mocks The Neo-Con Fascination With Neverending War
On Monday night’s episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert brilliantly took down conservatives’s positions on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Republicans Are Still Blaming Obama for Iraq and Afghanistan
it was not Obama who invaded Iraq on a fabricated pretext and with an army designed to fight not an insurgency but World War III.
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Republicans Honor Our Veterans By Making Sure That They Are Hungry and Struggling
Republicans have gone out of their way to keep America’s Veterans in a struggle to find work after returning from war.
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Treasonous House Republicans Are Giddy With Joy Over Shutting Down The Government
The Republicans lust to shut down the government is for reasons typical of traitors unwilling to accept they do not control the government
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What the Feck Is Wrong with an Obama Pivot?
President Obama’s critics routinely dismiss him as “feckless,” but most have long records as feck-ups. And what’s wrong with pivoting?
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Remember 9/11 and Never Forget What George W. Bush’s Incompetence Did to America
As the nation remembers the American lives lost at the hands of a terrorist gang, they should take stock of the damage that an incompetent Bush administration caused this country.
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Obama’s Decision to Get Congressional Approval Gives Sanity a Chance
War should be a matter for sober reflection, not knee-jerk reactions, and the president should be praised for opening the matter up to debate
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Where Syria is Concerned Let’s not Become a Global George Zimmerman
It is not hard to know what to think about the U.S. attacking Syria. That’s wrong. And it’s wrong for a number of reasons
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GOP Rep. Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma Calls Obama Unfit and Biden Embarrassing
On Monday, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), forgot not only President Bush but his fellow ethically-challenged House Republicans, and excoriated President Barack Obama from the House floor.