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	<title>True Blue Liberal &#187; Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>Why These Deaths Hit Home As Hard As The Somme</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/08/19/why-these-deaths-hit-home-as-hard-as-the-somme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Independent UK
By Robert Fisk
More than 200 soldiers dead in Afghanistan, and now Gordon Brown advises us that &#8220;the best way to honour their memory is to see the course through&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know which particular &#8220;course&#8221; Gordon has in mind – protecting democracy, training the Afghan army, defeating the Taliban, talking to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serial War As Way Of Life</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/22/serial-war-as-way-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RLR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Asia Times
By David Bromwich
On July 16, in a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that the &#8220;central question&#8221; for the defense of the United States was how the military should be &#8220;organized, equipped &#8211; and funded &#8211; in the years ahead, to win the wars we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Deal with America&#8217;s Empire of Bases</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/02/how-to-deal-with-americas-empire-of-bases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Tom Dispatch
By Chalmers Johnson
The U.S. Empire of Bases &#8212; at $102 billion a year already the world&#8217;s costliest military enterprise &#8212; just got a good deal more expensive. As a start, on May 27th, we learned that the State Department will build a new &#8220;embassy&#8221; in Islamabad, Pakistan, which at $736 million will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hold Your Applause</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/06/08/hold-your-applause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RLR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From TruthDig
By Chris Hedges
Did they play  Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world in the prison corridors of Abu Ghraib, Bagram air base, Guantanamo or the dozens of secret sites where we hold thousands of Muslims around the world? Did it echo off the walls of the crowded morgues filled with the mutilated bodies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panel Finds Lax Oversight of Wartime Contracting</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/06/08/panel-finds-lax-oversight-of-wartime-contracting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Google News
By Richard Lardner
The Defense Department has failed to provide adequate oversight over tens of billions of dollars in contracts to support military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, says a new report by an independent commission investigating waste and fraud in wartime spending.
U.S. reliance on private sector employees has grown to &#8220;unprecedented proportions,&#8221; yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hailing The Leader As A War President And The Powers That Go With It</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/05/21/hailing-the-leader-as-a-war-president-and-the-powers-that-go-with-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Salon
By Glenn Greewald
In a February, 2004 interview with Tim Russert, George Bush provoked much derision by proudly declaring himself to be what he called a  &#8220;war president.&#8221;  This week, Newsweek&#8217;s Editor Jon Meacham interviewed Barack Obama, adopted Bush&#8217;s label and applied it to Obama, asking him:
    Can anything get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Disease of Permanent War</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/05/19/the-disease-of-permanent-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/05/19/the-disease-of-permanent-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RLR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From TruthDig
By Chris Hedges
The embrace by any society of permanent war is a parasite that devours the heart and soul of a nation. Permanent war extinguishes liberal, democratic movements. It turns culture into nationalist cant. It degrades and corrupts education and the media, and wrecks the economy. The liberal, democratic forces, tasked with maintaining an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War’s Psychic Toll</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/05/19/war%e2%80%99s-psychic-toll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/05/19/war%e2%80%99s-psychic-toll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The NY Times
By Bob Herbert
I couldn’t have been less surprised to read last week that an American G.I. had been charged with gunning down five of his fellow service members in Iraq. The fact that this occurred at a mental health counseling center in the war zone just served to add an extra layer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tillman Family&#8217;s McChrystal-Clear Story</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/05/14/the-tillman-familys-mcchrystal-clear-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/05/14/the-tillman-familys-mcchrystal-clear-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 17:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Nation
By Dave Zirin
When NFL player-turned-Army Ranger Pat Tillman died at the hands of US troops in a case of &#8220;friendly fire,&#8221; the spin machine at the Pentagon went into overdrive. Rumsfeld and company couldn&#8217;t have their most high-profile soldier dying in such an inelegant fashion, especially with the release of those pesky photos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming What We Seek to Destroy</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/05/11/becoming-what-we-seek-to-destroy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/05/11/becoming-what-we-seek-to-destroy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 21:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From TruthDig
By Chris Hedges
The bodies of dozens, perhaps well over a hundred, women, children and men, their corpses blown into bits of human flesh by iron fragmentation bombs dropped by U.S. warplanes in a village in the western province of Farah, illustrates the futility of the Afghan war. We are not delivering democracy or liberation [...]]]></description>
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