A/V Booth | Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/category/war in iraq/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2009 2009-12-03T21:07:42+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/category/war in iraq/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Obama: ‘I’m Open to Every Demonstrably Good Idea’ About Job Market http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/obama_im_open_to_every_demonstrably_good_idea_about_job_market_20091203/ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/obama_im_open_to_every_demonstrably_good_idea_about_job_market_20091203/ bailout, barack obama, economy, job market, president, private sector, recession, unemployment, Obama

President Obama laid out what he believes his administration has been doing to deal with the employment crisis in America thus far and hinted at forthcoming developments in his plan to create more jobs. During a press conference Thursday he tried to take some of the heat off his administration by stating, “Ultimately, true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector.”

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]]> 2009-12-03T21:07:42+00:00 Good Grief, Barack Obama! http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/good_grief_barack_obama_20091202/ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/good_grief_barack_obama_20091202/ afghanistan, barack obama, cartoon, charlie brown, christmas, peanuts, speech, west point, Charlie Brown

In addition to all the other problematic things we might point out about President Obama’s West Point speech Tuesday night, there’s also the troubling, scheduling-related factoid that the broadcast of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was bumped out in favor of Obama’s highly anticipated Afghanistan oration.

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]]> 2009-12-03T00:23:16+00:00 Friedman, Stewart Critique Obama’s Afghanistan Plan http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/friedman_stewart_critique_obamas_afghanistan_plan_20091202/ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/friedman_stewart_critique_obamas_afghanistan_plan_20091202/ afghanistan, barack obama, comedy central, hot flat and crowded, iraq war, jon stewart, new york times, thomas friedman, Friedman and Stewart

“I overreacted,” New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman admits to Jon Stewart about his initial support of the Iraq war in 2003 in this clip from Tuesday’s “Daily Show.” However, Friedman is still writing columns and selling books, such as his latest, “Hot, Flat, and Crowded,” so perhaps bad journalistic deeds still go unpunished in some media circles.

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]]> 2009-12-03T00:09:36+00:00 ‘Colbert Report’: Obama Answers to GI Joe http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/colbert_report_obama_answers_to_gi_joe_20091202/ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/colbert_report_obama_answers_to_gi_joe_20091202/ afghanistan, colbert report, comedy central, g.i. joe, glenn beck, my little pony, stephen colbert, Beck and Colbert

As usual, Glenn Beck exhibits an, um, unusual political sensibility in his analysis of Barack Obama’s West Point speech and the president’s plan to send 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan. Luckily, Stephen Colbert is on hand to translate Beck’s logic puzzles with the help of his other favorite plastic friends, GI Joe and My Little Pony.

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]]> 2009-12-02T21:42:33+00:00 Obama Makes It Official: 30,000 More U.S. Troops to Head to Afghanistan http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/obama_makes_it_official_30000_more_us_troops_to_head_to_afghanistan_20091/ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/obama_makes_it_official_30000_more_us_troops_to_head_to_afghanistan_20091/ afghanistan, barack obama, hamid karzai, john mccain, pakistan, president, taliban, troops, Obama

He took his time to mull it over, and in a speech at West Point on Tuesday night President Barack Obama announced his decision about what course of action to take in Afghanistan, affirming reports that he plans to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to push back on the resurgent Taliban and to try to establish some semblance of stability in the war-scarred country.

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]]> 2009-12-02T06:09:58+00:00 Chris Hedges on Books About War http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_on_books_about_war_20091130/ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_on_books_about_war_20091130/ books, chris hedges, fiction, hedges, history, media, novel, on the media, war, wwii, Chris Hedges

The Truthdig columnist, veteran war correspondent and author of “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” tells “On the Media” that when it comes to capturing war, “fiction is a better medium.”

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]]> 2009-12-01T07:02:57+00:00 What White House? Huckabee Digs Fox News http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/what_white_house_huckabee_digs_fox_news_20091129/ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/what_white_house_huckabee_digs_fox_news_20091129/ fox news, huckabee, media, mike huckabee, politics,

Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee could be a contender in 2012, but he has discovered that rolling out of bed once a week to tell yuck-yucks and play bass on his Fox News show is a lot more fun than glad-handing and fundraising 18 hours a day.

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]]> 2009-11-30T08:36:42+00:00 ‘Left, Right & Center’: America the Ungovernable? http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/left_right_center_headline_tk_20091127/ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/left_right_center_headline_tk_20091127/ arianna huffington, left right & center, matt miller, robert scheer, tony blankley, Left, Right & Center

On this Black Friday edition of “Left, Right & Center,” regulars Robert Scheer, Tony Blankley, Matt Miller and Arianna Huffington get philosophical, trotting out the likes of Karl Marx and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel to get a read on the timely and fundamental question of whether it’s truly possible to govern the people of the United States under the “of, by and for” setup.

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]]> 2009-11-27T22:39:11+00:00 U.N. Combats Violence Against Women, With Help From Men http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/un_combats_violence_against_women_with_help_from_men_20091125/ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/un_combats_violence_against_women_with_help_from_men_20091125/ ban ki-moon, cairo, iraq, jordan, paolo coehlo, sexism, united nations, violence against women, violence against women report

On Wednesday, the 10th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the creation of a network of men tapped to serve as male role models in the fight against gender-based violence.

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]]> 2009-11-26T02:50:23+00:00 Palin Still Gets Huckabee’s Vote (Against Obama) http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/palin_still_gets_huckabees_vote_against_obama_20091124/ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/palin_still_gets_huckabees_vote_against_obama_20091124/ alaska, arkansas, barack obama, governor, katie couric, mike huckabee, president, sarah palin, Couric and Huckabee

Strange but true: Even after leaving office this summer well before her term as Alaska’s governor was over, Sarah Palin’s “executive experience” still strikes Mike Huckabee as valid evidence of leadership that would put her above Barack Obama in the former Arkansas governor’s estimation, were he to be faced with those two choices at the polls.

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