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	<title>Comments on: Oakland’s Rep. Lee continues call for U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>By: Kevin Schmidt</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Schmidt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama is tired of acting like a failed Bush Light. Now he wants to imitate LBJ&#039;s failed Vietnam escalation genocide.

Howard Dean continues to go unheeded. Democrats can&#039;t win elections by being Republican Light.

Actually, I would categorize this behavior as being, Blue Dog DINO-Fascist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama is tired of acting like a failed Bush Light. Now he wants to imitate LBJ&#8217;s failed Vietnam escalation genocide.</p>
<p>Howard Dean continues to go unheeded. Democrats can&#8217;t win elections by being Republican Light.</p>
<p>Actually, I would categorize this behavior as being, Blue Dog DINO-Fascist.</p>
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		<title>By: Charles</title>
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		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>President Obama has a very strange and almost incomprehensibly complex dilemma on his hands - I do not envy the position he is in.

But this much I do know with absolute certainty.

Any attempt at creating so-called &quot;off ramp&quot; exit points in the Afghanistan strategy is going to have the same outcome - continued &quot;mission creep&quot;, as an endless stream of military &quot;advisors&quot;, troops and support are poured into the region with the hope of creating some sort of pseudo government.
 
And, whenever that mission ends and we leave, the co-called &quot;government&quot; there will simply disintegrate into a collection of tribes, and a handful of absurdly corrupt fake government officials.
 
I&#039;ve seen this before, in another part of the world, in SE Asia.
 
Let&#039;s not do this again.
 
Protecting the nuclear arsenal in Pakistan might be a credible mission.
 
Nation building in Afghanistan is delusion

God bless Barbara Lee!

In my book, she is the &quot;Rosa Parks&quot; of Congress</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Obama has a very strange and almost incomprehensibly complex dilemma on his hands &#8211; I do not envy the position he is in.</p>
<p>But this much I do know with absolute certainty.</p>
<p>Any attempt at creating so-called &#8220;off ramp&#8221; exit points in the Afghanistan strategy is going to have the same outcome &#8211; continued &#8220;mission creep&#8221;, as an endless stream of military &#8220;advisors&#8221;, troops and support are poured into the region with the hope of creating some sort of pseudo government.</p>
<p>And, whenever that mission ends and we leave, the co-called &#8220;government&#8221; there will simply disintegrate into a collection of tribes, and a handful of absurdly corrupt fake government officials.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen this before, in another part of the world, in SE Asia.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s not do this again.</p>
<p>Protecting the nuclear arsenal in Pakistan might be a credible mission.</p>
<p>Nation building in Afghanistan is delusion</p>
<p>God bless Barbara Lee!</p>
<p>In my book, she is the &#8220;Rosa Parks&#8221; of Congress</p>
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