AP - Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.
More anti-war figures are voicing their opinions about contradictory and confusing statements regarding Iraq made Thursday by presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama, and the news is clearly not good for his campaign.
The president's chronic failure to make decisions, and to carry them out, has hurt U.S. foreign policy.
Sen. Barack Obama speaks on his Iraq policy aboard his campaign plane headed to Missouri on Saturday. ST. LOUIS, Missouri (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama, speaking on board his campaign plane as it headed to St.
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Saturday his plan to end the Iraq war was unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his statement this week that he might "refine" his timetable for withdrawing U.
Democratic presidential hopeful says he remains committed to ending war in Iraq
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama told reporters Saturday that he was surprised at how the media has "finely calibrated" his recent words on Iraq. "I was a little puzzled by the frenzy that I set off by what I thought was a pretty innocuous statement," he said.
Well, well, well, the girl who ignored the flashing red light from Osama bin Laden right (PDB) before 9/11 is now oh so proud that Bush invaded Iraq. Here she is with Judy Woodruff on Bloomberg. Faiz: Rice: Yes, it’s been very, very tough.
When the founding fathers declared our independence, they could not have imagined that, 232 years later, the United States would be so spectacularly dependent on foreign countries. It would be roughly eight more decades before oil gushed from a well in Titusville, Pa.
YouTube video URL for video above, found here)The Vets for Freedom is a 20,000-member, nonpartisan organization established by combat veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and they will be launching a million dollar plus TV campaign geared to showing the general public the progress and successes being seen in Iraq.
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program - a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium - reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
Flip-flopping is the normal sort of rank opportunism, but for a messiah it is tantamount to sacrilege and heresy.
Iraq had a nuclear program? Who knew! (Well, other than the Israelis in 1981, and all of these folks, but nevermind that): The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium .
Muntadhar al-Sharify stood shivering Saturday in Baghdad's searing heat, a smile on his young face.
On the war, McCain and Obama have been polar opposites.The differences are clear and must remain that way. Iraq is a winning issue for Democrats. As long as Obama doesn't muddle toward the middle.
Vets for Freedom, an organization critical of Obama, is set to put up TV commercials in battleground states.
...oil was the objective. Maybe.
First, there was the without-merit accusation that "… it looks like it’s the policy of our troops to do something like this" he made in response to the allegations that several Marines deliberately shot and killed 24 innocent civilians in Haditha in November 2005.
In "The Best and the Brightest," David Halberstam chronicles Lyndon Johnson's absolute terror of appearing soft on communism. Having seen fellow Democrats destroyed in the early 1950s because they tolerated a Communist victory in China, Johnson swore that he would not let the story replay itself in.
"The curtains pull away. They come to the door. And they know. They always know."
Whew.
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.
Barack Obama was yesterday fending off charges from right and left that he had abandoned the core premise of his candidacy - the withdrawal of all US combat forces from Iraq within 16 months of taking office - in an attempt to attract voters from the political centre.
The hunt began just after dawn. Iraqi armoured personnel carriers surrounded the turbulent Zanjali district in the northern city of Mosul, blocking off roads as police acting on an urgent tip-off swept in and searched from house to house.
Still committed to end war if elected, Democratic leader says
A new report by Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights sets out the number of deaths in different ethnic communities caused by direct or indirect attacks in Iraq between 2003 and the end of 2007, and the numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) for each minority.
The costs of the Iraq war are not only astronomical, as a new Congressional report shows, they are unconscionable. So who’s going to pay?
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