Gen. Odom Details How Iraq Is Like Vietnam

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Wednesday March 08, 2006 · 4:38 PM PST

2006/03/08 · 16:38

Via Talking Points Memo

Iraq through the prism of Vietnam By William E. Odom, US Army(Ret.), Director of NSA 1985-1988

Wherein, General Odom does a nice job of discussing the history of Vietnam and comparing it to Iraq. Read More

Obama is Smart

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Saturday September 24, 2005 · 8:34 AM PDT

2005/09/24 · 08:34

Or... Why Obama's scold is good, but not for the reason you think

Obama yesterday released his Remarks on the confirmation of Judge John Roberts, which has promoted a flurry of responses.

I was caught by this diary up on the recommended list by wu ming, who articulated an argument that Obama's scold was a defensive posture because grassroots was annoying the beltway Democrats.

I think wu ming is wrong. I understand the point, and perhaps it is a good example of positive reinforcing thinking. But it's not clear to me that wu ming understood what Obama was saying, or perhaps they were only interested in saying what the dKos sphere wanted to be said. I don't know. Read More

St. Paul primary: Clark supporter beats Bush supporter

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Wednesday September 14, 2005 · 6:55 AM PDT

2005/09/14 · 06:55

There have been two other diaries on the St. Paul primaries. nihilix and brandonp Neither mentioned the important point I give today.

Yesterday St. Paul held it's primary for the Mayoral race. Since the race is technically non-partisan, the top two vote getters from the primary go on to the general. As it turns out, Randy Kelly(the incumbent) barely passed the Green Party endorsed candidate Elizabeth Dickinson.

Chris Coleman 52%
Randy Kelly 27%
Elizabeth Dickinson 19% Read More

MN Politics: GOP Fragmenting...

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Sunday June 12, 2005 · 5:21 PM PDT

2005/06/12 · 17:21

The Republican party here in Minnesota decided to kick their Governor around a bit.

GOP dumps Eibensteiner for Shoreview businessman

The Minnesota Republican Party on Saturday rejected the personally delivered advice of Gov. Tim Pawlenty not to "switch horses in the middle of the stream" and dumped Ron Eibensteiner, its chairman and a Pawlenty ally, for Ron Carey, a Shoreview businessman and party secretary-treasurer.

What was Eibensteiner's crime? Why were people miffed at him? Read More

MN Democratic State Senator's son killed in Iraq

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Friday May 27, 2005 · 8:31 AM PDT

2005/05/27 · 08:31

Our prayers go out to the Lourey family.

State Senators son killed in Iraq: Helicopter shot down

Matthew Lourey, son of state Sen. Becky Lourey, has been killed in Iraq, a senate spokesman said.

Details of the death of the helicopter pilot were not immediately available, said John Pollard, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson.

Johnson was expected to convene a news conference later today.

Lourey, DFL-Kerrick, had 12 children. Two had died before Lourey's death.

Becky Lourey, 61, was not immediately available for comment.

The military said earlier today that two U.S. soldiers were killed Thursday when their helicopter was shot down and crashed in central Iraq, but it was not clear if Lourey was involved in that crash near Buhriz, about 35 miles south of Baghdad.

Matthew Lourey's death brings to 22 the number of Minnesotans who have died in the Mideast during the war in Iraq.

Goodbye Cruel World

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Friday April 29, 2005 · 12:36 PM PDT

2005/04/29 · 12:36

I've been looking at the amount of time I spend reading this website and responding to posts, and I now realize it's quite substantial. Probably a good 3-4 hours a day.

This is becoming a substantial waste of my time, and the problem is I'm addicted.

So I have to cut this off. Read More

The National Security Advisory Group

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Wednesday March 16, 2005 · 10:23 PM PST

2005/03/16 · 22:23

Via Yglesias From The Note:

Spotted on Capitol Hill yesterday: Wes Clark, speaking, according to a source who was there, to a standing-room-only gathering of Democratic Senate staffers with a national security bent. Clark gave an upbeat account of the Party's fight to forge policy alternatives to President Bush's plans. He urged Democrats to stop talking about exit strategies and timelines and focus on how to win in Iraq.
He also joined Leaders Reid and Pelosi for a closed-door meeting of their newly announced National Security Advisory Group, including bold-faced names Perry and Albright.

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Wednesday February 16, 2005 · 7:05 AM PST

2005/02/16 · 07:05

MSNBC has a new article up that interviews four men who were with a merc firm Custer Battles. Apparently all four quit after only being over there a short time, because of the abuses they were witnessing.

link here Read More

Support a two-person chair for DNC

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Friday January 28, 2005 · 10:09 AM PST

2005/01/28 · 10:09

The other night, one of our state's(Minnesota) DNC members came by our Senate District meeting to solicit comments.

She mentioned a few interesting things... Read More

Towards a unified theory of liberalism

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Tuesday January 18, 2005 · 8:24 AM PST

2005/01/18 · 08:24

Matt Yglesias linked to an interesting article over in the British Prospect, titled Red State Sneer

Unfortunately most dKos type liberals will most likely immediately reject this article because it talks about various liberal stereotypes. I think that would be a mistake, for contained within are a variety of gems. Read More

Scott Ritter says Missile Defense is already obsolete

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Wednesday January 05, 2005 · 9:55 PM PST

2005/01/05 · 21:55

This came via Eric Alterman's latest blog entry over at msnbc.com, a link to Rude Awakening to missile-defense dream

I, along with many others have been pushing the notion that the Star Wars missile defense program is the equivalent of the Maginot line. That is an incredible waste of money to build a defensive line that our enemies can easily circumvent if they so desire.

While Russia is no longer our enemy, they are also not quite our friends. (With the obvious exception of my girlfriend Tanya from Omsk)

And apparently they are still developing missile delivery systems... Read More

Presbyterian Church divests from Israel violence

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Wednesday December 08, 2004 · 8:16 AM PST

2004/12/08 · 08:16

Now I heard about this first last night on CBC's As It Happens. The CS Monitor has the story

A vote by the Presbyterian Church (USA) to use economic sanctions against certain companies doing business with Israel - namely those that profit from the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza - has set off a quiet firestorm within the American religious community.

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