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President Obama chose General Stanley McChrystal to chart out a new Afghanistan policy eight months ago -- and we're still not there yet.

Even as President Bush assailed Sen. John Kerry's campaign for resorting to "old-style scare tactics" in warning of Social Security benefit cuts and a military draft, Vice President Dick Cheney questioned Tuesday whether Kerry could deal with the threat of terrorists using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons in the nation's biggest cities.

Dozens of US military personnel have filed 34 lawsuits against US defense contractor KBR for allegedly incinerating toxic waste and releasing it into the atmosphere in Iraq and Afghanistan.

After reading about the generous donation that Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee is giving, I realized why he is a true leader.

Stanley A. McChrystal, the forces he has requested. The letter was signed by every Republican on the committee save for moderate Susan Collins of Maine .

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart finds it "very sad" that former Vice President Dick Cheney seems to be suffering from signs of premature senility.

By MERRILL McPEAK What we are trying to do in Iraq is hard. We were reminded of this two weekends ago, when al-Qaida blew up key government buildings in Baghdad and killed at least 155 people.

He briefly served as Acting President of the United States on two occasions during which Bush underwent medical procedures.

Well, what a surprise: the Cape Cod Times reports that there are about 30 representatives in Congress who are being investigated about possible ethics and corruption charges.

I still can't tell for sure if this is happening because of some grand design or is just a series of events that add up to something bigger, but it looks to me as if the Republicans have bet the farm...and their future...on being the extremist, take-no-prisoners, we-never-compromise-no-matter-what-the-result political party in the United States.

While the administration of former President George W. Bush and his erstwhile partner former Vice-President Dick Cheney dithered about with two foreign wars, America was under attack.

House Republican leader John Boehner released a statement Monday saying that President Obama has "no more excuses" for not announcing a decision on his strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan now that presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah has pulled out of the Afghan runoff election , guaranteeing that Hamid Karzai will continue as the country's ...

"On the national level you have sharp and divided partisanship, particularly over stimulus issues or healthcare issues and now foreign affairs.

Get our new Windows 7 eBook for $7 with 70+ Tips. Download Now ! Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 by the oracle Former Vice President Dick Cheney is making quite an after-politics career of going around on the speaking circuit, giving his opinions on why his administration was so great, and why the current one is doomed to failure and disgrace.

Adm. Mike Mullen, America's top military officer, said Wednesday that he is comfortable with the length of time it is taking for the White House to come to a decision on the way forward in Afghanistan.

In a brief interview on Capitol Hill with The Monitor, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he feels good about the "depth of the discussion."

Critics on Capitol Hill and beyond have said Mr. Obama is taking too long to decide whether he will send as many as 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Former Vice President Dick Cheney called it "reckless," and House minority leader John Boehner of Ohio said Obama has "no further pretext for delaying the decision" now that Afghanistan's election crisis has been solved. Democrat Rep. Ike Skelton, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has also urged Obama "to waste no time."

Liz Cheney criticized President Obama's foreign and domestic policies last night, saying that the United States needs a strong commander in chief, not a "global community organizer" who cannot decide whether to send more troops to Afghanistan.

On September 11, 2001, my office building, the World Trade Center, was attacked by al Qaeda, a murder cult of Saudi Arabians, funded by Saudi Arabians.

PIERRE - This time as a private citizen, former Vice President Dick Cheney hunted pheasants in the Pierre area this week.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney held back no criticism Thursday of President Barack Obama, strongly questioning the administration's policy in Afghanistan and its approach to combating terrorism.

Obama's leadership style Written by Ron Walters Thursday, 05 November 2009 11:48 - I do not understand those people who criticize the president for taking his time to get public policy right, when much of the misery that has come to visit their lives is a result of public policy, in both the domestic and international arenas, formulated by the ...