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Campaign For Liberty
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

08/31/10

Amid much fanfare last week, the last supposed ‘combat’ troops left Iraq as the administration touted the beginning of the end of the Iraq War and a change in the role of the United States in that country. Considering the continued public frustration with the war effort, and with the growing laundry list of broken promises, this was merely another one of the administration’s operations in political maneuvering and semantics in order to convince an increasingly war-weary public that the Iraq War is at last ending...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1086



Acts of contrition

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

09/01/10

Now, Johnnie will come marching home — or will he? We’re told all ‘combat troops’ are being pulled out, but this is just a matter of redefining a redundancy: after all, what, exactly, are ‘non-combat troops?’ Soldiers engage in combat, and our soldiers are still there, although a great many are now ‘private’ contractors: the actual numbers haven’t gone down appreciably. It’s just a matter of word play: of finding the right phrases, the most convincing weasel words to make it all seem right...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/08/31/acts-of-contrition/


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