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Hello, There's a war on

Michael Duffy, from Time magazine, wrote an interesting piece about a month or so ago titled Why the Surge worked (Interestingly, the title of the article has changed in the online version. It is now the Surge at Year One). In spite of the misleading original title, this was an outstanding article which underlines the complexity of the problem that is Iraq. Throwing 30,000 more troops can’t solve the problem in Iraq. Instead, it has just prolonged problem. Duffy writes: “The surge’s successes and limits are both plainly visible on al-Kindy (a street in downtown Baghdad) today. A well-stocked pharmacy has

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Crying? There's no crying in Congress

Boehner choked up with emotion on the Iraq funding bill.  Either he’s a great actor or he really doesn’t understand the situation in the world.  As far as I know Al Qaeda attacked us on 9/11.  The leadership of Al Qaeda is not in Iraq.  The leadership is Pakistan or at least the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.  Wouldn’t it make more sense to cry because 5 years after 9/11 Bin Laden is still alive and the CIA’s bin Laden unit has been disbanded.  The thousands of soldiers that we had combing this area 5 years ago are now in Iraq.  Maybe that’s what

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Errington C. Thompson, MD

Dr. Thompson is a surgeon, scholar, full-time sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats.

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A Letter to America

The Thirteeneth Juror

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