Costs Of War

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The Bush Payoff for Big Oil: Huge No-Bid Contracts in Iraq

Four Western oil companies are in talks with Iraq’s Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service the country’s largest fields, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.

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Big Oil Fuels John McCain's Straight Talk Express

Kucinich, O'Reilly face off over impeachment

Baracknophobia

On Monday night's "Daily Show," Jon mocked the media's willingness to peddle insane rumors about Barack Obama — and their tendency to blame the rumor-mongering on internet sites. Calling it "Baracknophobia," Stewart showed clips of anchor and pundits from all three cable networks repeating baseless rumors (Muslim, plagiarist, sexist, etc.) .

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Keith Olbermann puts John McCain's statements in context

Thursday night's "Countdown" brought, as promised, a Special Comment from Keith Olbermann on John McCain's comments that it doesn't matter when we bring the troops home from Iraq on the "Today" show.

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McCain Blasted in Quotes from Fellow Republicans

John McCain has a problem with Republicans. His campaign- largely driven by success with moderates and independents- has thrown a curve ball to the GOP, which has been vocal in its past criticism of him. Nonetheless, their comments are telling of personal opinions of the Arizona Senator. Quotes from GOP colleagues and conservative pundits.

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McCain Stacks Fox News 'Town Hall' With Supporters

But he's nothing like Bush... Seriously.

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Fight the Smear against Barack Obama

Look at the lies See the truth

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$543,236,299,998 Spent on Iraq as of 4:22 pm CST Today !

Before the war, White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsay estimated the cost at $100 to $200 billion. So the White House got rid of him and "re-estimated" the cost at $50 to $60 billion. It's now over $500 billion.

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McCain In 2005: I "Totally" Support Bush

McCAIN: No. No. I-the fact is that I'm different but the fact is that I have agreed with President Bush far more than I have disagreed. And on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I've been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.McCain = Bush's 3rd term

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Obama Shows His Punch

For those who feared Obama couldn't throw a punch, he showed both a good jab and a decent left hook in pounding McCain on the economy. That's why the Republican posse is likely to scorn sparring about policy and turn this election into an alley fight, taking out the knives around patriotism, pastors and race.

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90% of Americans will pay less tax under Obama than McCain

CNN posted an article online summarizing the Tax Policy center's report comparing John McCain and Barack Obama's proposed tax plans. The numbers are remarkable, but CNN fails to notice the obvious punchline: almost 90% of Americans will pay less in taxes under Obama than McCain.

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Déjà vu all over again - Iran has NO nuclear weapons!

The US is smearing IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei for not finding evidence of Iranian nuclear weapons. Sound familiar?

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Humanity Lobotomy - Second Draft

The World's Most Impressive Subways

Subways are as much a part of big-city living as high-rises and gridlock, and they get about as much love. For many people, subways are crowded, noisy places only marginally better than being stuck in traffic -- and most of them are.

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