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PELOSI – STAND UP FOR MUSLIM WOMEN!

PAJAMASMEDIA.COM Speaker Pelosi: Stand Up for Muslim Women, Not Islamists Like Rauf! An open letter from the founder and president of the Alliance of Iranian Women. September 5, 2010 – by Manda Zand Ervin Honorable Speaker Pelosi: I heard you say that the people who oppose the construction of the Ground Zero mosque should be […]

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KARL ROVE – THE WORLD NEEDS A DETERMINED UNITED STATES

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 Obama’s ‘Come Home America’ Speech A dangerous world needs stronger U.S. leadership. By KARL ROVE At times Tuesday night, it sounded as if President Barack Obama didn’t know what kind of speech he wanted to give. Was it a foreign policy address aimed at assuring a world-wide audience of America’s resolve in

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BOOK REVIEW – TONY BLAIR – A JOURNEY, MY POLITICAL LIFE

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 An Ally Remembers Defining ‘New Labour,’ defending the Iraq war, getting to know George W. Bush. By MARTIN RUBIN It is now painfully obvious that Tony Blair—the man who led Britain for a decade, who transformed the country’s dully orthodox Labour Party into dashing, moderate “New Labour,” who faced down parliamentary opponents

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SADDAM AND “THE BOYS””

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 If Saddam Had Stayed Saddam would have joined the nuclear bad-boys club with Iran and North Korea. By DANIEL HENNINGER From the vantage point of history, Barack Obama’s prime-time speech announcing the Iraq war’s end is less important than the speech he gave eight years ago as a state senator in Illinois.

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LETTERS FROM THE PAST COME BACK TO HAUNT RAUF, THE IMAM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 Letters From the Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf on Israel and Iran. It isn’t often that a 1,400-year-old treaty and letters from the 1970s tell us something about current events. But since Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, the force behind the so-called Ground Zero Mosque, has staked a political claim as a “moderate Muslim,”

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TONY BLAIR – THE PALESTINE/ISRAEL CONUNDRUM

AUGUST 28, 2010 Notable & Quotable Tony Blair on the campaign to de-legitimate Israel. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaking at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, Aug. 24: I often have a conversation about the West Bank which goes like this. Someone says: Israel must lift the occupation. I reply: I agree but

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REASONS FOR THE ANTI GROUND ZERO MOSQUE SENTIMENT

August 31, 2010 Tuesday 21 Elul 5770 14:00 IST Photo by: AP Photo/Seth Wenig Undercurrents below the Ground Zero mosque By JUDEA PEARL 28/08/2010 Overall, the message that emerges from this discourse can hardly be missed: When Muslim grievance is at question,America is the culprit. I have been trying hard to find an explanation for

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JOHN MCCAIN SPEAKS OUT ON OUR TWO WARS

AUGUST 31, 2010 The Surge and Afghanistan Unless he understands the reason for success in Iraq, the president is unlikely to lead a successful strategy against the Taliban. By JOHN MCCAIN Today President Obama will deliver a major speech to mark the draw down of U.S. forces in Iraq to 50,000 troops. He will likely

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HISTORY COULD OF BEEN CHANGED HAD WE TAKEN BAGHDAD IN 1990

AUGUST 23, 2010 The Guns of August, 1990 The last 20 years would have been very different had American forces taken that open road to Baghdad the first time around. By FOUAD AJAMI He struck in early August, 20 years ago, at a time when the Cold War had just ended, and the world was

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IRAQ – “OPERATION NEW DAWN”

AUGUST 20, 2010 Winning the Peace in Iraq The last American combat troops left Iraq this week. But when ‘Operation New Dawn’ begins on Sept. 1, the U.S. will still have a vital mission—and interests—there. By MAX BOOT The Stryker armored vehicles of the U.S. Army’s Fourth Brigade, Second Infantry Division have just rumbled out

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