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What Obama Could Say
ecthompsonmd January 26, 2008

A rumor is going around that Senator Barack Obama is a Muslim. This rumor is false. Here is what Senator Obama has said in denying the rumor— “I’ve been a member of the same church for nearly 20 years, praying to Jesus with my Bible,” Obama told 1,200 people at a church-run community center in Sumter. “Don’t let people turn you around because they’re just making stuff up. That’s what they do, they try to bamboozle you.” Fine. What I’ve not heard Senator Obama say is, “I’m not Muslim, but so what if I was?” Being Islamic is good enough for hundreds of millions

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Just when I thought Iraq was as bad as it could get
ecthompsonmd July 23, 2006

Reuters is now reporting that high ranking Iraqi officials are talking about dividing the country – BAGHDAD, July 21 (Reuters) – Iraqi leaders have all but given up on holding the country together and, just two months after forming a national unity government, talk in private of “black days” of civil war ahead.  Signalling a dramatic abandonment of the U.S.-backed project for Iraq, there is even talk among them of pre-empting the worst bloodshed by agreeing to an east-west division of Baghdad into Shi’ite and Sunni Muslim zones, senior officials told Reuters.  Tens of thousands have already fled homes on either

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