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		<title>Survey: Military community anti-Bush</title>
		<link>http://blog.politicalnonsense.com/2007/12/08/main/survey-military-community-anti-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peppermint lately</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A survey found that almost 60 percent of the military community are critical of the Bush Administration&#8217;s handling of the war.
&#8220;Military community&#8221; was defined as active and former service personnel as well as their families &#8212; disapprove of the president&#8217;s handling of the war. The same percentage of the group disapprove of Bush&#8217;s overall performance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN rules tasers can torture</title>
		<link>http://blog.politicalnonsense.com/2007/11/27/main/un-rules-tasers-can-torture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peppermint lately</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN Committee Against Torture has determined the use of taser stun guns can be a form of torture and violate the UN Convention Against Torture. Four men in the United States and three in Canada have died after being shot with tasers in the past two weeks.
democracynow
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		<title>Iraq war update</title>
		<link>http://blog.politicalnonsense.com/2007/11/22/main/iraq-war-update-27/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peppermint lately</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration threatened to lay off up to 150,000 civilian workers at military bases in mid-December if Congress does not approve unrestricted Iraq funding immediately, around 60% of all foreign militants who entered Iraq to fight over the past year came from two of America&#8217;s allies- Saudi Arabia and Libya, a former top US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House calls on Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq</title>
		<link>http://blog.politicalnonsense.com/2007/11/16/main/house-calls-on-bush-to-withdraw-troops-from-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peppermint lately</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House approved a war funding bill ordering President Bush to withdraw most troops from Iraq by the end of next year.
The fifty-billion dollar measure amounts to around one-quarter of President Bushâ€™s request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. President Bush has promised a veto if the bill makes it past the Senate.
democracynow
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		<title>Iraq war update</title>
		<link>http://blog.politicalnonsense.com/2007/11/11/main/iraq-war-update-26/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peppermint lately</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was revealed that US snipers would kill Iraqis that picked up fake guns they had planted as bait regardless of any further indication they were insurgents, the US contested that the quantity of Iranian bomb-making components being found in Iraq is increasing and 20 Iranian-trained agents are still operating south of Baghdad, Iraqi Prime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghani death count</title>
		<link>http://blog.politicalnonsense.com/2007/11/08/main/afghani-death-count-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people, including five MPs and several children, in northern Afghanistan.
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		<title>Afghani death count</title>
		<link>http://blog.politicalnonsense.com/2007/11/07/main/afghani-death-count-12/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.politicalnonsense.com/2007/11/07/main/afghani-death-count-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peppermint lately</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Afghanistan, at least 60 people have been killed and 50 injured in a suicide bombing targeting Afghan lawmakers. The dead include six parliamentarians, as well as schoolchildren and senior citizens. It was the worst suicide bombing in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion in 2001.
democracynow
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		<title>Iraq war update</title>
		<link>http://blog.politicalnonsense.com/2007/11/07/main/iraq-war-update-25/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peppermint lately</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was reported that 2007 was the deadliest year yet for US troops in Iraq, hundreds of US diplomats protested against a government move to force them to accept postings in war-torn Iraq, the UN reported that independent security contractors in Iraq are mercenaries, Congress approved a $459 billion military spending bill, and the Pentagon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Diplomats refuse forced Iraq job posts</title>
		<link>http://blog.politicalnonsense.com/2007/11/03/main/us-diplomats-refuse-forced-iraq-job-posts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.politicalnonsense.com/2007/11/03/main/us-diplomats-refuse-forced-iraq-job-posts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peppermint lately</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration is trying to diffuse a public relations fiasco over news U.S. diplomats are refusing mandatory job assignments in Iraq.
Around fifty employees will be forced to take positions in Iraq next summer.
The Washington Post is reporting the State Department is facing an internal uproar over new rules that would force U.S. officials to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-gay church held liable for damages</title>
		<link>http://blog.politicalnonsense.com/2007/11/01/main/anti-gay-church-held-liable-for-damages/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.politicalnonsense.com/2007/11/01/main/anti-gay-church-held-liable-for-damages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peppermint lately</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A jury ordered an anti-gay Kansas church to pay $10.9 million in damages to relatives of a reportedly gay dead U.S. Marine after church members cheered his death at his funeral.
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