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	<title>Acid Test &#187; Iraq, Middle East</title>
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	<description>Just another soapbox surfer</description>
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		<title>Iran and nukes</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2012/01/iran-and-nukes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree. Iran should not have nuclear weapons. Neither should China, Russia, North Korea, Britain, France, the US, India, Pakistan, or Israel. Hello? Those things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq isn&#8217;t costing three trillion dollars</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2011/12/iraq-isnt-costing-three-trillion-dollars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2011/12/iraq-isnt-costing-three-trillion-dollars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when Bilmes and Stiglitz published The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict in early 2008? There was much discussion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They say delay is a sign of depression</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2011/10/they-say-delay-is-a-sign-of-depression/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2011/10/they-say-delay-is-a-sign-of-depression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Updated below) You have to admit, I have plenty to be depressed about. The rule of law has been dead in the US for years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the bin Laden Way</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2011/05/taking-the-bin-laden-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2011/05/taking-the-bin-laden-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 17:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it good that he&#8217;s dead? I don&#8217;t see what difference it makes. Is it good that the US killed him? No. Civilized people live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to the Left on Libya, Seconded</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2011/03/an-open-letter-to-the-left-on-libya-seconded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2011/03/an-open-letter-to-the-left-on-libya-seconded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq, Middle East]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to articulate why the intervention in Libya against Qaddafi is a good thing. And why the reflexive rejection of it as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Don&#8217;t Need Their Own Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2011/02/women-dont-need-their-own-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2011/02/women-dont-need-their-own-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[harassment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Rogers has made one of the saddest statements I&#8217;ve read on the horrible treatment of CNN&#8217;s Lara Logan. The gut-wrenching sexism of some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to Egypt! &#8230; But &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2011/02/congratulations-to-egypt-but/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2011/02/congratulations-to-egypt-but/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now comes the hard part. Mohammed El-Baradei talked about the &#8220;joy and happiness of every Egyptian at the restoration of our humanity and our freedom.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2010/08/wikileaks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2010/08/wikileaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/?p=825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me just get this straight. On one side: a few small people who have killed nobody but may have endangered some in the interests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stealing Iran . . . Stupidly</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/07/stealing-iran-stupidly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/07/stealing-iran-stupidly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The statistics don&#8217;t tell us anything we didn&#8217;t already know. The stealing of the Iran&#8217;s June 12 election has been obvious from the start. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullies</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/08/bullies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/08/bullies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC headline this morning: Bush condemns &#8216;bullying&#8217; Russia Iraqis could not be reached for comment. The spokesman was stuck in a traffic jam caused by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And so it begins: proxy war on Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/06/and-so-it-begins-proxy-war-on-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/06/and-so-it-begins-proxy-war-on-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been expecting this. The Administration needs a Really Big distraction before the election from everything that&#8217;s boiling over on the back burner. Health care, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riverbend is in Syria</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/09/riverbend-is-in-syria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/09/riverbend-is-in-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq, Middle East]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m relieved to hear she and her family made their way out. I&#8217;m depressed that she and her family had to make their way out. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The US Obligation to Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/the-us-obligation-to-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/the-us-obligation-to-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the situation. For whatever mixed motives, the US deposed one of the world&#8217;s outstanding dictators. That&#8217;s the good news. There is no other good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about the power, stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/its-about-the-power-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/its-about-the-power-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Lilla, professor at Columbia University, has written a long article&#8220;The Politics of God&#8221; in the Aug. 19, 2007, NYTimes. Shorter Lilla: people who think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chopped hands don&#8217;t matter &#8230; over there</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/chopped-hands-dont-matter-over-there/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/chopped-hands-dont-matter-over-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glenn Greenwald annoyed me yesterday. What gives? He&#8217;s one of my go-to people for new and useful insights. He&#8217;s got no business disappointing me. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Get No Medals</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/07/they-get-no-medals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/07/they-get-no-medals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fighters who do most of the dying in war don&#8217;t get special graves. Those most wounded don&#8217;t get special hospitals. They don&#8217;t get invited [...]]]></description>
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