Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 5th, 2010: Foreign Policy: Josh Rogin, writing on Foreign Policy’s The Cable blog, reports that Heritage Action for America, the lobbying arms of the conservative Heritage Foundation, is...

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Wartime Prosperity

Recently, the Washington Post’s David Broder resurrected the tired and long debunked case for wartime prosperity, claiming that “a showdown with the mullahs” in Iran would be a boon to the economy. As political economist and historian Robert Higgs has shown time...

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The Hug Lady

Bette Rose Bowers is the Hug Lady. She greets incoming soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan in airports. And what does she tell them? Things like: God bless you, we are proud of you, you are appreciated, thank you. She talks about the joy of having a father see his baby...

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Thursday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 4th, 2010: National Review Online: Foundation for Defense of Democracies president Clifford May suggests that should Palestinian Authority president Abbas declare Palestine a state and request...

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Wednesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 3rd, 2010: The American: Writing on the blog of the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute’s journal, AEI fellow Ali Alfoneh details the latest machinations between Iran’s power...

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At Least the War Criminal Lost

Ilario Pantano, the Republican candidate for Congress in North Carolina's 7th district, was defeated 54-46%. Ilario Pantano shot and killed two unarmed prisoners in Iraq while serving in the Marines and survived charges of premeditated murder before returning to...

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Is THIS why they hate us?

AMY GOODMAN: A former US Marine who killed two unarmed Iraqis is running for a congressional seat in North Carolina... Ilario Pantano has said he has no regrets about fatally shooting the two at point-blank range after detaining them near Fallujah in April 2004....

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Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 1st, 2010: The Washington Post: David Broder suggests since Obama can not control the “tidal force” of the marketplace, one other option for getting the United States out of its economic...

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Tea Party Official Slams War Criminal Candidate

Deborah Johns, former vice chair of the Tea Party Express, has denounced North Carolina candidate for Congress Ilario Pantano and has endorsed his Democratic opponent. Johns is the mother of a Marine and once organized pro-Iraq War counterprotests against Cindy...

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