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Candidates show they can take a joke
CAUSE CÉLÈBRETHIS is the election that made politics a joke. Or maybe it's the campaign in which politics discovered its sense of humor. Either way, humor has become not only entertainment but also a major campaign tool in the 2008 presidential election cycle....Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Entertainment, John F. Kennedy, Dick Cheney, Richard Nixon
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Listen to Lugar
PRECIOUS FEW POLITICIANS know how to hold their tongues, and even fewer are lambasted for doing so. But Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.), the former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, has taken fire — including on this page — for his...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al-Qaeda, Iraq War (2003-2011), George W. Bush, Iraq
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U.S. toll in Iraq reaches 4,000
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFour U.S. soldiers were killed when a bomb hit their vehicle in south Baghdad late Sunday, bringing the number of U.S. service members killed in the Iraq war to 4,000. The grim milestone came at a time when attacks against the U.S. military are ebbing...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al-Qaeda, George W. Bush, Iraq, Suicide
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Five years of Iraq editorials
In five years of war, The Times editorial board has written over 200 editorials discussing Iraq, from its early position against the war, penned on March 14, 2003, to last week's discussion of global insurgency and the fallout between Adm. William J....Tags: United Nations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al-Qaeda, Islam, George W. Bush
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Toontown Iraq
Between the 9/11 anniversary, Gen. David H. Petraeus' congressional testimony and the presidential war address, it was an all-Iraq all-the-time week in toontown. The six-year remembrance, four-star witness and two-term chief exec hardly left space for...Tags: White House, Iraq, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Obama's foreign policy picks
Presidential campaigns are generally discouraging for foreign policy intellectuals. Not only do the candidates pander in folksy vernacular to hockey moms and Joe Six Packs, but the clever ones favored by university professors often fare badly on...Tags: United Nations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Iraq
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8 U.S. troops among dead as blasts rock Iraq cities
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFive U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi civilian were killed Monday in a suicide bombing while chatting with shopkeepers in central Baghdad, part of an uptick in high-profile attacks that has rattled the capital after months of diminished violence. Early today,...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al-Qaeda, Iraq, Suicide, Injuries and Wounds
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Free speech for officers?
Today, Korb and Carter discuss instances in which military officers have publicly disagreed with the president's policies. Previously, they discussed the proper military oversight role for Congress. Later in the week, they'll discuss the Air Force...Tags: Robert Gates, Unrest, Conflicts and War, George W. Bush, Entertainment, Iraq
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The politics of defense
Today, Carter and Korb begin their Dust-Up with a discussion on the extent to which Congress should intervene in military matters. Later in the week, they'll discuss the Air Force tanker contract, torture policies and more. Where have you gone, Congress?...Tags: Carl Levin, George W. Bush, Heads of State, Health, Richard Nixon
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Baghdad's misguided crackdown on the Sons of Iraq
There is a gathering storm on Iraq's horizon. Over the last several weeks, its central government has embarked on what appears to be an effort to arrest, drive away or otherwise intimidate tens of thousands of Sunni security volunteers -- the so-called...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al-Qaeda, George W. Bush, Iraq, Heads of State
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The 'surge' is working
As recently as a month ago, it appeared that Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker would be running into a withering fusillade of rhetorical fire when they appeared on Capitol Hill to report on the progress of the "surge" in Iraq. Now that...Tags: Carl Levin, Jack Reed, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al-Qaeda, George W. Bush
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Amid civil war, reports mean little
The intense focus on Gen. David H. Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker obscures the essential irrelevance of the report they will make to Congress on Monday and, in a larger sense, the irrelevance of U.S. troops to Iraqi politics. The...Tags: Al-Qaeda, Iraq, George W. Bush, Heads of State, Religious Conflicts
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