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Afternoon Apertif: Daily News Roundup
After all that build-up, Hurricane Gustav has come and gone, leaving huge swathes of power outages and a big ol’ mess for returning evacuees to clean up, but no broken levees or national disaster areas. While people begin making their way back to that part of the waterfront, Gustav’s sister Hanna is heading ominously toward [...]
The Petraeus show
Gen. Petraeus says we should stay in Iraq, warning against the effects of a “quick pullback” (ie, a considered withdrawal from combat operations).
It would have been news if he said this instead: “Ladies and gentleman, we’ve got to get the hell out of there immediately. Our being in Iraq is a shit-storm of a [...]
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