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MSNBC
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Hillary Rodham Clinton ridiculed Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama for his contention that living in a foreign country as a child helped give him a better understanding of the foreign policy challenges facing the United States.
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Yahoo News
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after meeting at the White House with President Bush on Iraq:
"President Bush's policy announced by General Petraeus is a path to 10 more years of war in Iraq. General Petraeus' testimony to C..
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Yahoo News
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As a prosecutor at Nuremberg, Thomas Dodd charged the Nazis with "the apprehension of victims and their confinement without trial, often without charges, generally with no indication of their detention."
His son, Sen. Chris Dodd, wonders today whether..
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Washington Post
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White House officials arranged for top officials at the Office of National Drug Control Policy to help as many as 18 vulnerable Republican congressmen by making appearances and sometimes announcing new federal grants in the lawmakers' districts in the mon..
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FOX News
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Republican and Democratic congressional leaders both forecast a change in President Bush's Iraq war policy as the president prepared to sign legislation Friday providing funds for military operations through Sept. 30.
"I think the president's policy is..
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CNN
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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was declared the winner of Tuesday's Republican presidential debate in South Carolina, largely for his smack down of Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who suggested that America's foreign policy contributed to the destruction on Sep..
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FOX News
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Democrats are not done trying to stamp out Iraq war policy, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday, announcing two more votes to be taken on the matter this week as the Senate attempts to pass a controversial war spending bill.
Debate is schedul..
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ABC News
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One day after President Bush called on Congress to give his new war policy a chance, the Democratic-controlled Senate foreign relations committee approved a non-binding resolution Wednesday declaring the president's plan to send 21,500 more troops to Ira..
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MSNBC
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says federal judges are unqualified to make rulings affecting national security policy, ramping up his criticism of how they handle terrorism cases...
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C-SPAN
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Flynt Leverett -- former CIA analyst, NSC member and established foreign policy expert -- has written an op-ed for the NYT bashing the Bush administration for it's failed policies towards Iran...
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Daily Kos
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The violence rocking Mesopotamia, now threatening Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, threatens to destroy a long held but fragile quid pro quo between the United Sates and Saudi Arabia...
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New York Times
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On Tuesday, when this page runs the list of people it has endorsed for election, we will include no Republican Congressional candidates for the first time in our memory. Although Times editorials tend to agree with Democrats on national policy, we have pr..
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MSNBC
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One of the chief concerns of the pragmatists is that Mr. McCain is susceptible to influence from the neoconservatives because he is not as fully formed on foreign policy as his campaign advisers say he is, and that while he speaks authoritatively, he oper..
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SF Gate
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President Bush might be down in the polls, but when the Republican presidential candidates were asked about his record on foreign policy in a recent debate in New Hampshire, no one except Rep. Ron Paul of Texas was running away from it.
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New York Times
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy, who had been shocked by the hunger he saw in West Virginia, made the fight against hunger a theme of his presidential campaign. After his election he created the modern food stamp program, which today helps millions of Americans..
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Yahoo News
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Thwarted in efforts to bring troops home from Iraq, Senate Democrats on Monday helped pass a defense policy bill authorizing another $150 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The 92-3 vote comes as the House planned to approve separate legisla..
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Alter Net
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Obama seems to be his own greatest enemy when it comes to his grasp of foreign policy.
The instant Barack Obama tossed his hat in the presidential ring the big knock against him was that he didn't know a darn thing about foreign policy. And that his gr..
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Los Angeles Times
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Say what you like about George W. Bush's poor stewardship of U.S. foreign policy -- and we have -- the president got it exactly right Monday. After a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Bush was asked whether he would wait for permission from Paki..
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Alter Net
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The acclaimed critic of U.S. foreign policy analyzes Bush's current political troubles, the war on Iraq, and what's really behind the global 'war on terror.'
For over 40 years, MIT professor Noam Chomsky has been one of the world's leading intellectual..
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FOX News
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Not yet a 2008 candidate, Fred Thompson energized young Republicans with a speech Saturday that was heavy on rhetoric and short on policy pronouncements. He branded Democrats as "the party of despair."
Chants of "Fred" and "Run, Fred, Run," greeted the..
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