Drilldown: Opinions

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• 'Buy American' provisions offer recipe for retaliation

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• 150,000 jobs created? Uh, no

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• 5 Points on the Critical State of the Economy
• 50,000 more US troops can save Iraq

A

• A case for additional troops
• A Diplomatic Avenue
• A Diplomatic Avenue
• A Fiscal Gamble
• A Heavier Iraq 'Footprint'
• A large stimulus bill for large problems
• A more realistic timetable for withdrawal
• A Path to Common Ground
• A Plan for Iraq
• A Plan to Hold Iraq Together
• A Plausible Plan B
• A realistic plan: Split the country in two
• A road map out of Iraq
• A Shift not a Surge
• A Skeptic's Case For the Surge
• A War We Must End
• A way out
• A whiff of Smoot-Hawley
• After 9 years, time for troops to leave Iraq
• Against Half-Measures
• All We Are Saying... Is Give Petraeus a Chance
• America and Britain should quit Iraq as soon as possible
• America's Moral Duty in Iraq
• Anatomy of a Wrong Approach
• Another Thousand Lives
• Another way to interpret this report is 'Stay but don't screw up'
• Anti-war, Pro-democracy
• Antiwar Wackadoos Are Winning
• Arabian Nightmares
• Are we doing enough?

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• ‘Inspiring Progress’ on Iraq?

B

• Back To Baghdad
• Bad politics and urgent remedies
• Baghdad Blues
• Baghdad Is Key
• Bam's spending spree
• Bang for the Bucks
• Betraying America
• Bipartisanship is good for both sides
• Bring the troops home
• Bring them home
• Britain leaves Iraq in shame. The US won't go so quietly
• Bullying Iran
• Bush clings to a lost cause in Iraq
• Bush Listened, but Did He Hear?
• Bush must call for reinforcements in Iraq
• Bush won't end Iraq war on his own
• Bush's baby steps
• Bush's Iraq Legacy
• Bush's Last Stand: Is president's new Iraq strategy too little, too late?
• Bush's refusal to see his war isn't working puts American security at risk
• Bush's Vietnam?
• Buy American, Buy Depression

C

• Can We Talk?
• Concluding the Terrible Mistake We Made in Iraq
• Confessions of a 'Defeatocrat'
• Congress Must Act On Iraq
• Conscience and the War
• Crush the Sunnis

D

• Democrats' So-Called Leaders are Not Leading on Iraq
• Democrats: Don't cave on ending war in Iraq
• Direction? Out
• Disappearing Jobs
• Don't prejudge the surge
• Doubling Down in Iraq
• Drowning by Fire Hose
• Dying for an Iraq That Isn't

E

• End the occupation
• Escalation? It's Not His Decision to Make
• Even the British are leaving Iraq
• Everything His President Wants to Hear

F

• Failure of will: Congress lacks the courage to end a pointless war
• FDR’s Sweater Fable
• Fighting to Win
• Fingers in the wind
• First the stimulus, now the hangover

• Five years is long enough
• For real stimulus, fix infrastructure

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• Getting Out of Iraq
• Getting Tough in Washington
• Give voters a choice about war
• Gone to pieces
• GOP greets stimulus bill with ‘audacity of nope’
• Government spending can create jobs

H

• Harman to President Bush: Send More Troops to Iraq...NOT!
• He's spending your future
• Herbert Hoover Lives
• How to Get Out of Iraq

I

• Imperfect stimulus plan is still the best answer
• In Defense of Waste
• Iraq is broke beyond repair
• Iraq is no 'Nam
• Iraq report stresses need for change
• Iraq Was a Worthy Mistake
• Iraq, $5,000 Per Second?
• Iraq: No light at the end of the tunnel
• Iraq: The Elephant in the Room
• Iraq: The Real Cost of War Can't Be Ignored
• Iraq’s salvation lies in letting it break apart
• Is Iraq turning into Yugoslavia?
• It's time for Bush to get an Iraq policy that works
• It's Up To Bush
• It’s time for Bush and Blair to try plan B – the humility option

J

• Just call it the war of endurance

K

• Kill Muqtada Now
• King David Returns

L

• Leaving Iraq, Honorably
• Leaving Iraq: about time
• Lesser evils and an exit strategy
• Let's get everybody's troops out of everywhere
• Losing sleep over Iraq

M

• Majority of Iraqis Approve of Attacks on US Troops, Why Are We Still There?
• Make Walls, Not War
• Many dead ends in Iraq
• Meanwhile, in Baghdad
• Mook's Spooked
• More Troops
• More troops needed
• More Troops, Please

N

• Next move in Iraq?
• No better idea
• No protectionism
• Noble effort our only alternative to awful defeat
• Not so willing: Britain, Denmark show the way on Iraq
• Not-So-Strange Bedfellow
• Now That We’ve ‘Won,’ Let’s Come Home

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• Obama's lethal game of beggar-thy-neighbour
• On the Edge
• Once the Stimulus Kicks In, the Real Fight Begins
• One for the Wastebaskets
• Out of Iraq in '08
• Out-thought by the enemy

P

• Pass the stimulus: Republicans oppose needed aid at their peril
• Pentagon Wonks
• Pressure Iraqis

R

• Realism demands U.S. get out now
• Reinforce Baghdad
• Rethinking Iran
• Rhetoric of confrontation
• Right On Trade
• Road to dependency
• Roll Over the Republicans

S

• Same Product, New Package
• Sell America
• Send More Troops
• Send more troops: Iraq must be secured
• Shift the course
• Squeezing Baghdad
• Squeezing Iraq
• Stabilize Iraq
• Staying in Iraq for proxy war
• Staying the wrong course in Iraq
• Stimulus bill: On the whole, it makes sense
• Stimulus to nowhere
• Strip For Action
• Support the Troops: Bring Them Home

• Switch the fight to Afghanistan

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• Talk of talks: Let's hope the U.S. is serious on Iran and Syria
• Talk of talks: Let's hope the U.S. is serious on Iran and Syria
• Talk to the enemy: U.S. should explore common interests with Syria, Iran
• Talk to the enemy: U.S. should explore common interests with Syria, Iran
• Tell the Truth About the Surge
• The Action Americans Need
• The Arithmetic of Failure
• The Best Way To Support Our Troops
• The Clock is Ticking, Mr. President
• The Consequences of Failure in Iraq (Gerecht)
• The fantasy is over, we must partition Iraq and get out now
• The fantasy is over, we must partition Iraq and get out now
• The Fighting Over the Fighting
• The Fiscal Stimulus Will Pay For Itself
• The Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker Hearings and What the Surge in Fact Proves
• The generals' worry
• The Iraq war is already lost
• The Leadership Gap
• The Least Immoral Choice
• The madness of George
• The madness of George
• The misleading Vietnam analogy
• The Only Real Option: Leave Iraq Now
• The only solution left for Iraq: a five-way split
• The price of occupation
• The Republicans' Fatal Misreading of FDR -- and How It Would Worsen The Depression
• The return of economic nationalism
• The Right Troops in the Right Places
• The Right Type of 'Surge'
• The Road Home
• The Road Home
• The Same Old Song
• The Smart Surge: Diplomacy
• The Stimulus Advances
• The Stimulus Evidence One Year On
• The Surge Has Failed; No Residual Troops
• The Texas Strategy
• The Three-State Solution
• The ticking clock
• The Time Is Now
• The Time to Negotiate Is Now
• The Time to Negotiate Is Now
• The Truth on Iraq
• The Two Vacuums
• The US needs its stimulus now
• The US needs its stimulus now
• The Wisdom In Talking
• There are 300m Americans, but still not enough to rule the world
• This is not our fight
• Time for a Heavier Footprint
• Time for Action -- Not Rhetoric -- In Iraq
• Time for Bush to talk to Iran and Syria
• Time for Bush to talk to Iran and Syria
• Time for Plan B
• Time to Say Enough of Bush's War
• Time to Talk
• Time to Talk
• Time to talk to the bad guys
• Two tales suggest strategy in Iraq

U

• U.S. should lead Iraq summit
• U.S. should lead Iraq summit
• U.S. should take advantage of improved security in Iraq to withdraw
• Unfinished Debate on Iraq

V

• Victory Is Not an Option

W

• W's Last Chance
• W's Last Chance
• Wanted: Personal Economic Trainers. Apply at Capitol.
• We Can Put More Forces in Iraq...
• We Can Put More Forces in Iraq...
• We've Lost. Here's How To Handle It.
• Welcome Political Cover
• What Iraq Needs
• When Resolve Turns Reckless
• When Should the U.S. Withdraw? Ask the Iraqis.
• When will Bush admit the obvious about Iraq?
• Why I Support the Stimulus
• Why Iraq's So Hard
• Why the Dems Should Go for It
• Why We Need More Troops in Iraq