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	<title>Backbone America &#187; Iraq</title>
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		<title>On Afghanistan, Obama bends the truth curve</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/12/02/on-afghanistan-obama-bends-the-truth-curve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three agonizing months of deliberation, analysis and internal debate in the White House and this is the best they can do?Wow. Barack Obama has made his Afghanistan decision and it stinks of pure political posturing. He&#8217;s attempting to split the political baby &#8212; as he has done so often as both a candidate and as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Obama, Afghanistan is a bridge too far</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/12/for-obama-afghanistan-is-a-bridge-too-far/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/12/for-obama-afghanistan-is-a-bridge-too-far/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been no doubt for weeks now in my mind that President Obama has been planning a retreat from Afghanistan. All the dithering and hand-wringing over the elections, Harmad Karzai and the corrupt Afghan government was just a way to put distance between himself and the &#8220;decision&#8221; &#8212; or series of decisions &#8212; to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chickenhawk in Chief</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/09/22/chickenhawk-in-chief/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/09/22/chickenhawk-in-chief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama scored big points during the 2008 campaign by reminding voters of his opposition to the war in Iraq in 2002 (when he was an Illinois State Senator without an actual vote). He called it &#8220;Bush&#8217;s war of choice&#8221; and repeatedly spoke of its folly; later, as a United States Senator in 2006 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Strongest Tribe&#8217; well worth reading</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/09/01/strongest-tribe-well-worth-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/09/01/strongest-tribe-well-worth-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Moloney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most news junkies who had followed the war in Iraq on a daily basis for six years, I thought I was pretty well informed. However when I read Bing West’s The Strongest Tribe I was stunned at how much I had missed- not just unreported or misreported events but also how to think about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s make a deal!</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/03/lets-make-a-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/03/lets-make-a-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Part of the success in Iraq involved reaching out to people that we would consider to be Islamic fundamentalists,&#8221; said Obama, &#8220;but who were willing to work with us.&#8221; That&#8217;s from President Obama&#8217;s interview with the New York Times on March 7, 2009. I guess he didn&#8217;t get the memo about Islamic fundamentalism not being the kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dem delusions debilitate America abroad</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/03/02/democrat-delusions-debilitate-america-abroad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the nation’s attention is currently focused on our troubled commerce, and no less on the Big Government responses that President Barack Obama favors, it is easy to slight international relations. But this administration will be no more successful in its so-called &#8220;soft power&#8221; approach to intractable and dangerous situations than was President Bill Clinton. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s kinder, gentler foreign policy</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/02/28/obamas-valuespolitik/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/02/28/obamas-valuespolitik/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though much of the focus of Barack Obama&#8217;s first six weeks in office has been on his trillion dollar economic stimulus and deficit-busting budget proposals, the administration has nonetheless given us some insight into the nation&#8217;s new foreign policy. If you are someone who believes that the world remains a dangerous place, it is anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq: good news means no news</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/02/05/iraq-good-news-means-no-news/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/02/05/iraq-good-news-means-no-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq has now taken another huge step toward stable democratic rule and no one seems to have noticed. While headlines this week followed Obama&#8217;s every utterance and his cabinet&#8217;s growing tax evasion problems, a story of historic proportions was unfolding in a nation that has dominated American politics for the past five years. Some 140,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merci, Monsieur le Président</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/21/merci-monsieur-le-president/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/21/merci-monsieur-le-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear President George W. Bush: As you open a new chapter in your life down in Crawford, Texas, after eight, sometimes turbulent years as the 43rd President of the United States, I would like to take this opportunity to publicly express my eternal gratitude to you for strengthening my faith in America’s destiny as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now for an apology from MSM</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/19/now-for-an-apology-from-msm/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/19/now-for-an-apology-from-msm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red at Heart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iraqi journalist that threw his shoes at President Bush is now apologizing . Apparently, the blessings of freedom of speech and liberty are sinking in and he realizes that had he done the same before brave American soldiers liberated his country from a despicable tyrant, he&#8217;d have likely been shot on site and perhaps, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Set Sarah free!</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/10/02/set-sarah-free/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/10/02/set-sarah-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mostly listened to the Vice Presidential debate on radio, though I did get to see some of it on TV. Palin held her own and well exceeded the low expectations that the media had set for her. She was confident, poised and articulate &#8212; even as she faced off against the verbosity machine that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lincoln&#8217;s lesson for McCain</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/08/11/lincolns-lesson-for-mccain/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/08/11/lincolns-lesson-for-mccain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaigns & Candidates]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/2008/08/11/lincolns-lesson-for-mccain/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A perpetual problem in politics is the dispute between statesmen and party strategists. The former wish to lead public opinion in the direction of wise policies and the latter support policies which win elections. There is a tension between these two positions but it is surmountable only on terms of statesmanship. Supporters of John McCain, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campos &amp; CU vs. McCain &amp; TR</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/04/25/campos-cu-vs-mccain-tr/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/04/25/campos-cu-vs-mccain-tr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fran Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearly, the price of war is horrendous. The Civil War cost 600,000 lives. Worth the cost to emancipate a few slaves? Editor: So says Fran Miller in reply to &#8220;McCain&#8217;s Dangerous Belief,&#8221; a Paul Campos column in the Rocky on 4/24. Dave Crater tags on his impressions of Campos as a law school professor. Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq: Five lies of the Left</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/04/09/iraq-five-lies-of-the-left/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/04/09/iraq-five-lies-of-the-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lies are told so frequently in today&#8217;s media/Internet-driven politics that they take on a reality of their own. In the Iraq war, it is impossible not to hear on a daily basis some variation of either &#8220;Bush lied&#8221; or &#8220;it has become a civil war&#8221; or &#8220;the surge has failed&#8221;. These falsehoods are stated so [...]]]></description>
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