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<title>Slog - Comments on On the 5th Anniversary of the War in Iraq</title>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq</link>
<description>Bush defends his decision. Obama assails it (attacking Clinton and McCain in the process). Clinton sends out an attack video and touts her support among military generals. Protesters march in D.C. Cheney says: &quot;So?&quot; And McCain sees American &quot;on the precipice of winning a major victory.&quot;...</description>
<copyright>Copyright 2008</copyright>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:00:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Gabriel</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Where's the post about how silly protesters are? It's an annual tradition!</p>]]></description>
<author>Gabriel</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973805</link>
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<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:08:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Fnarf</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Precipice is right. McCain's entire political career hangs on the idea that we're winning in Iraq, which is a ludicrous interpretation. "The surge is working" is the meme, but it doesn't really have anything to do with us (and there never actually was any surge in troop numbers). The ceasefire is over, and the bloodletting is moving back up. By November, McCain will be riding this war to a unprecedented defeat, one that makes Goldwater or Mondale look like triumphs.</p>]]></description>
<author>Fnarf</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973806</link>
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<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:09:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by DW</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Erymas</p>

<p>Hometown:  Troy</p>

<p>Age:  Unknown</p>

<p>Died: 13th or 12th c. BCE (?)</p>

<p>Unit:  Trojans</p>

<p>Incident:  Struck in mouth by ruthless spear of brave Idomeneus; the steely point under the brain went onward, white the bones scattr'd etc. etc.  And the black cloud of death enwraped him round.  Thus slew these Danaan chieftans each his man.</p>]]></description>
<author>DW</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973809</link>
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<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:11:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by seattle98104</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Just because we declare victory, doesn't mean we accomplished anything worthwhile, moral, or good.</p>]]></description>
<author>seattle98104</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973811</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973811</guid>
<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:11:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Mike of Renton</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>And what about McCain not knowing the difference between Sunni and Shiite regarding Iran and al Qaeda?</p>]]></description>
<author>Mike of Renton</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973815</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973815</guid>
<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:12:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Bont</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Um, doesn't Barack mean "clear, unambiguous CERTAIN terms" in that video? </p>

<p><br />
</p>]]></description>
<author>Bont</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973852</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973852</guid>
<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:33:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by RonK, Seattle</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Ah, <i>military</i> generals!</p>

<p>Can't have that kind around, can we? Even the ones who opposed Bush's war first and most fiercely, and were quickest to identify his post-invasion blunders?</p>

<p>No, better to swear alleginace to Obama and the phalanx of straw men that form the backdrop of each of his grandiloquent speeches.</p>]]></description>
<author>RonK, Seattle</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973867</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973867</guid>
<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:39:24 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Original Andrew</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Mike in Renton @ 5,</p>

<p><br />
Oh please, only leeburul fags know stuff.</p>]]></description>
<author>Original Andrew</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973868</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973868</guid>
<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:40:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Average American</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p></p>

<p><br />
What Iraq War?</p>]]></description>
<author>Average American</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973877</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973877</guid>
<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:42:04 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by McCain/Bush 08</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Ignore the depression, the falling US currency, and the massive debt and vote for us!</p>]]></description>
<author>McCain/Bush 08</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973921</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973921</guid>
<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:01:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by max solomon</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>only BHO will stop this, and it will take him his entire first term to do it.</p>

<p>once he's done it, the GOP will blame him for losing & destroying our (illusion of) hegemony, & we'll have a cornpone theocrat reactionary like Huckabee for president in 2012.</p>

<p>this country fucked itself. fucked fucked fucked.</p>]]></description>
<author>max solomon</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973989</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c973989</guid>
<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:31:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Wolf</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>So what you're saying is, the status quo is being faithfully maintained.</p>]]></description>
<author>Wolf</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c974137</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c974137</guid>
<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:04:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by WRT</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>What's not to like about a war that has cost about 4000 American lives outright and 20,000 or so more seriously wounded, a few trillion dollars and international good will towards the US?  Of course, the few hundred thousand dead Iraqi's and the few million Iraqi refuges don't count for much.  </p>

<p>The only real problem with the war as far as I can tell is that it has made Al Qaeda, so much stronger.  They had no friends whatsoever, much less a presence in Iraq until we invaded.  Now, it's their primary training ground.  Iran has been the primary beneficiary of our invasion and occupation, but they are our friends who hosted so many of our diplomats back in 1980, right?  </p>

<p>Rolling tanks across borders into countries presenting us no threat at all and then occupying them for 5 years so far and 95 more if Grandpa McCain gets his wish places us in the big league company of pre-world-war-II Germany and post-world-war-II Soviet Union.  That's fast company indeed!  Being viewed world wide as the primary threat to world peace should be a badge of honor that will strike fear in the hearts of countries with no nukes all around the world (though it might inspire them to develop nukes, just in case).  </p>

<p>Let's all celebrate the great victories in Iraq.  Then set to work to pay for the rebuilding of our depleted military, just in case we need it to fight some enemy who could harm us.  </p>]]></description>
<author>WRT</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c974670</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c974670</guid>
<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:17:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by WRT</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>What's not to like about a war that has cost about 4000 American lives outright and 20,000 or so more seriously wounded, a few trillion dollars and international good will towards the US?  Of course, the few hundred thousand dead Iraqi's and the few million Iraqi refuges don't count for much.  </p>

<p>The only real problem with the war as far as I can tell is that it has made Al Qaeda, so much stronger.  They had no friends whatsoever, much less a presence in Iraq until we invaded.  Now, it's their primary training ground.  Iran has been the primary beneficiary of our invasion and occupation, but they are our friends who hosted so many of our diplomats back in 1980, right?  </p>

<p>Rolling tanks across borders into countries presenting us no threat at all and then occupying them for 5 years so far and 95 more if Grandpa McCain gets his wish places us in the big league company of pre-world-war-II Germany and post-world-war-II Soviet Union.  That's fast company indeed!  Being viewed world wide as the primary threat to world peace should be a badge of honor that will strike fear in the hearts of countries with no nukes all around the world (though it might inspire them to develop nukes, just in case).  </p>

<p>Let's all celebrate the great victories in Iraq.  Then set to work to pay for the rebuilding of our depleted military, just in case we need it to fight some enemy who could harm us.  </p>]]></description>
<author>WRT</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c974671</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c974671</guid>
<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:17:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by WRT</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>What's not to like about a war that has cost about 4000 American lives outright and 20,000 or so more seriously wounded, a few trillion dollars and international good will towards the US?  Of course, the few hundred thousand dead Iraqi's and the few million Iraqi refuges don't count for much.  </p>

<p>The only real problem with the war as far as I can tell is that it has made Al Qaeda, so much stronger.  They had no friends whatsoever, much less a presence in Iraq until we invaded.  Now, it's their primary training ground.  Iran has been the primary beneficiary of our invasion and occupation, but they are our friends who hosted so many of our diplomats back in 1980, right?  </p>

<p>Rolling tanks across borders into countries presenting us no threat at all and then occupying them for 5 years so far and 95 more if Grandpa McCain gets his wish places us in the big league company of pre-world-war-II Germany and post-world-war-II Soviet Union.  That's fast company indeed!  Being viewed world wide as the primary threat to world peace should be a badge of honor that will strike fear in the hearts of countries with no nukes all around the world (though it might inspire them to develop nukes, just in case).  </p>

<p>Let's all celebrate the great victories in Iraq.  Then set to work to pay for the rebuilding of our depleted military, just in case we need it to fight some enemy who could harm us.  </p>]]></description>
<author>WRT</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c974672</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c974672</guid>
<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:18:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by WRT</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>What's not to like about a war that has cost about 4000 American lives outright and 20,000 or so more seriously wounded, a few trillion dollars and international good will towards the US?  Of course, the few hundred thousand dead Iraqi's and the few million Iraqi refuges don't count for much.  </p>

<p>The only real problem with the war as far as I can tell is that it has made Al Qaeda, so much stronger.  They had no friends whatsoever, much less a presence in Iraq until we invaded.  Now, it's their primary training ground.  Iran has been the primary beneficiary of our invasion and occupation, but they are our friends who hosted so many of our diplomats back in 1980, right?  </p>

<p>Rolling tanks across borders into countries presenting us no threat at all and then occupying them for 5 years so far and 95 more if Grandpa McCain gets his wish places us in the big league company of pre-world-war-II Germany and post-world-war-II Soviet Union.  That's fast company indeed!  Being viewed world wide as the primary threat to world peace should be a badge of honor that will strike fear in the hearts of countries with no nukes all around the world (though it might inspire them to develop nukes, just in case).  </p>

<p>Let's all celebrate the great victories in Iraq.  Then set to work to pay for the rebuilding of our depleted military, just in case we need it to fight some enemy who could harm us.  </p>]]></description>
<author>WRT</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c974673</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c974673</guid>
<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:18:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by WRT</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>sorry, didn't mean to do multiple posts, but thought it hadn't posted at first try(ies).  </p>]]></description>
<author>WRT</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c974677</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/today_is_the_5th_anniversary_of_the_iraq#c974677</guid>
<category>2008</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:20:10 -0800</pubDate>
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