Trampling the Flag

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That’s William Ayers above standing on an American flag. Ayers is acquainted with Barack Obama — and I don’t feel that Obama should be responsible for the civil protest behavior of his acquaintances.

Authorizing Torture One Memo at a Time

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From the same person who broke the story on Prime Minister Tony Blair’s January of 2003 conversation with President Bush that sealed their agreement to invade Iraq regardless of the UN Security Council outcome (and even use a UN plane to bait an attack), Matrix Chambers Barrister and University College London Law Professor Philippe Sands…

100 Years, Part II

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The debate over McCain’s 100 years comment is still pinging around in my brain. Here is my first interpretation of McCain’s intended meaning when I wrote earlier this week: More important is what McCain actually did mean: that the U.S.

Reid and Biden: Law of the Sea is There for the Taking

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I’ve been pretty quiet on the Law of the Sea front these past few months, but now that’s over. The clock is ticking. The “quiet strategy” has achieved as much as it is going to. It’s time for an all out push — there’s simply too much at stake to let it go.

Selling the War with Iran

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Note from Steve Clemons. My colleague and friend Nir Rosen who has been one of America’s most significant chroniclers of the Islamic dimensions of America’s war in the Middle East has just become a regular contributer to The Washington Note. Please welcome him.

Iraq Debate Moving to Higher Ground?

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I’m assuming most TWN readers have seen this before: Iraq is and will continue to be about 90 percent of the foreign policy conversation in this campaign (still not happy about that). And right now, much of the Iraq debate has revolved around redeployment details: who, how many, how fast, etc.