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Winship | Marine’s Photo Reminds Us of War That Will Not End
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Michael Winship, Truthout: “There was a certain ironic and painful symmetry at work last month. As one iconic image of war was called into doubt, another was being created, a new photograph of combat’s grim reality that already has generated controversy and anger. When it was first published in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, Robert Capa’s photo was captioned ‘Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death.’ Better known today as ‘The Falling Soldier.’”

Jeff Leys | Health Care vs. Warfare: The Future Costs of the Afghanistan War
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Jeff Leys, Truthout: “On Wednesday, President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on health care. Later this year, he will decide whether to deploy additional troops to the war in Afghanistan on top of the 69,000 troops already deployed. The struggle for health care and the struggle to end warfare are inextricably linked.”

Democrats in Congress Wary of Afghanistan Escalation
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David Lightman and Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers: “Congress will examine next week the future of American military involvement in Afghanistan, a future that many key lawmakers hope won’t include sending more US troops than President Barack Obama already has committed. ‘There’s a significant number of people in the country, and I don’t know the exact percentages, that have questions about deepening our military involvement in Afghanistan,’ Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said Friday.”

Dr. Ron Walters | Barack Can’t Speak to School Children? Why?
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Dr. Ron Walters, The Black Commentator: “President Barack Obama wanted to do what he and his staff probably thought was an innocuous and very positive gesture – send a message to school kids at their institutions that it was a good thing for them to study hard and stay in school because their future and the future of the nation depended on it. The uproar that this has caused has also shocked and embarrassed many people who not understand why the President of the United States cannot even deliver such a positive message to children without the hard politicization of the event.”

Book Says Obama’s Life Is at Risk
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Christopher Moraff, AlterNet: “Most of us have come to accept the worst politics has to offer as a price worth paying for a democratic system in which every voice, no matter how repugnant, has the right to be heard. But lately the level of hostility directed at President Obama and progressive lawmakers from some corners of society has crossed the line from disturbing to downright scary. From ‘birther’-led citizen grand juries charging the president with fraud, to gun-toting protesters outside presidential events, organized opposition to the new administration and its policies has taken on a decidedly radical bent, giving rise to the unthinkable.”