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    Leave it to P. Cockburn to sum up the disaster in Iraq with incontrovertible and concise sentences: In so far as the surge has achieved military success it is because it implicitly recognizes America’s political defeat in Iraq. Whatever the reason that President Bush decided to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein in 2003…

Europeans awed that a woman wedded to creationism and a big fan of shooting wolves and polar bears from helicopters might be one step away from the Oval Office should remember that the very popular Ronald Reagan – another western governor inexperienced in international affairs –  sat inside the Oval Office for eight years, having…

   Sure sure sure, conventions, mostly platitudes greeted with thunderous plaudits from an energized base before big joke time in America day is pinioned on to all of us in the way of another set of straw men/women? to serve the interests of the mega-elite and blood sucking jingos.. I mean election day of course. I…