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	<title>Plato's Beard &#187; Iraq</title>
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	<description>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises</description>
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		<title>The unbearable weight of facts</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/327</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/327#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times, the paper of record, is shocked, just shocked. They just discovered that the US military has been censoring war photography and un&#8221;embedding&#8221; journalists who do not follow their guidelines.
Picturing Casualties - The New York Times

Chris Hondros of Getty Images was with an army unit in Tal Afar on January 18, 2005, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A fat lot of difference</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/270</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/270#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 14:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Ralph Nader pointed out that there are no significant differences between the Democrats and Republicans it was met with responses that ranged from insult to false outrage which persists to this day among idle commentors in the blogosphere who challenge Nader&#8217;s motives, personality and commitment! One presumes they consider their own hard commenting e-politicking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hagelian synthesis</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/263</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/263#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Crooks and Liars has video of Chuck Hagel (R-NE) laying it out to the Senate on Iraq and the [non-binding] Hagel, Biden, Snowe, Levin resolution against escalation. I guess it takes a Republican to say the things he does, such as point out that the reputation of the U.S is shot in the Middle East. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The people say: Deliberation not liberation!</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/261</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/261#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[via Polling Report]
LA Times / Bloomberg poll (Jan 13, 2007):

&#8220;Do you agree or disagree with those who say that George W. Bush deliberately misled Congress and the American people about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and its ties with Al Qaeda in order to build support for going to war with Iraq?&#8221;



Agree%
Disagree%
Unsure%

1/13-16/07
50
44
6



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		<title>Compassionate conservatism</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/247</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/247#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via BoingBoing a video of American soldiers using a bottle of water to make Iraqi children run for miles behind a truck. It&#8217;s truly sickening to see these children running for what seems to be minutes, while the soldiers laugh and comment:

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		<title>Chomsky on Bill Maher</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/238</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/238#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Chomsky]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<title>Chris Floyd on Zarq&#8217;s timely demise</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/110</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/110#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is good stuff. Go read the whole thing!&#160;
Chris Floyd - Hubub in Hibhib: The Timely Death of al-Zarqawi
[...]
Zarqawi, the notorious shape-shifter who, according to grainy video evidence, was able to regenerate lost limbs, speak in completely different accents, alter the contours of his bone structure and also suffered an unfortunate binge-and-purge weight problem which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Zarqawi Alive</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/109</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/109#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;[via BoingBoing]&#160;
War Room - Salon.com
[...]&#160;
In fact, there&#39;s evidence that the war actually helped keep Zarqawi alive longer &#8212; and certainly presented him with more easily accessible targets &#8212; than would have been the case if the United States had not invaded Iraq. As NBC News reported back in 2004, U.S. military planners drew up plans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood and gore makes Army queasy</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/86</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/86#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 01:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Doublespeak]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Army says all the horror of war as depicted in a documentary of Iraq war injured might be a bit demoralizing. Perhaps when compared to the much better version of reality presented in the ads with dudes climbing mountains and such? When asked if morale may improve among the troops if they were to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An old one on Iraq and Bushco from Paul Craig Roberts</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/52</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/52#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, at least some parts of the Libertarian segment of the Right has a principled view/position:
Virtuous Violence Is Upon Us
by Paul Craig Roberts
[...]
If President Bush’s neoconservative administration were rational, the US would never have invaded Iraq. If Bush’s government were moral, it would be ashamed of the carnage and horror it has unleashed in Iraq.
The [...]]]></description>
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