Feingold Slams Warner-Levin Resolution
Sen. Russ Feingold unloads on both Dems and GOP'ers for making only empty gestures on ending the Iraq war. Feingold, like Rep. Dennis Kucinich, is one of the few elected officials with guts on this issue. Give this video a look.Sen. Russ Feingold unloads on both Dems and GOP’ers for making only empty gestures on ending the Iraq war. Feingold, like Rep. Dennis Kucinich, is one of the few elected officials with guts on this issue.
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Key to Barack Obama's surge is his expansion of targeted assassinations taking place under the guise of unmanned aerial drones operating in the Af-Pak region. Obama's senseless Afghanistan strategy will expand the use of targeted assassinations by aerial drones.
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Even if the surge works, why wouldn't al-Qaida -- or some like-minded group -- simply set up shop in Somalia? Or in Yemen, another failing state?
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