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The Day After: Election Results and War Issues

June 8th, 2012

By Jan Barry The day after Iraq war veteran Jason Castle lost his long-shot challenge in the primary election for the 5th Congressional District in New Jersey, news reports did not even mention his signature stance that it’s time to bring the troops home from Afghanistan. In the wake of primary elections in New Jersey […]

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Tags: Afghanistan, casualties, Congress, election, Jason Castle, veterans, war
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Iraq: Hot News and History

December 29th, 2011

By Jan Barry “Crisis plagues Iraq as U.S. troops depart — As the last U.S. soldiers exited Iraq Sunday and debate was raging about the nation’s future, political crisis erupted in Baghdad that raised fears of more sectarian strife to come. Iraqiya, a powerful political bloc that draws support largely from Sunni and more secular […]

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Tags: Britain, casualties, costs, democracy, hubris, Iraq, U.S., violence
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Winding Down a Misbegotten War

August 20th, 2010

By Jan Barry As the last U.S. combat units rumbled out of Iraq under President Obama’s August deadline, Time magazine’s chief political columnist, Joe Klein, summed up the costly consequences of what he called “a war that should never have been fought.” Blasting the Bush administration for blundering into “a neo-colonialist delusion” that caused hundreds […]

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Tags: Afghanistan, casualties, cost, end, invasion, Iraq, occupation, threat, war
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