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  • TPMtv: McCain's Yes, No, Maybe

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 30 2008 01:02 PM | PERMALINK

    McCain's Yes, No, Maybe

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Behind the recent "100 years" brouhaha has been Sen. McCain's claim that we should be seeing our occupation of Iraq following the model of our long-term troop deployments in Germany, Japan and South Korea. But yesterday, the Huffington Post noted that McCain actually hasn't been consistent on this point either -- sometimes saying we need to leave soon and that Iraqis will never accept a permanent US presence and other times that he thinks they'll be...

  • TPMtv: In His Own Words

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 29 2008 10:57 AM | PERMALINK

    In His Own Words

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: 100 Years in Iraq? Yes, he really did say it. Again and again. We explain the whole story in today's episode of TPMtv.

  • TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: McCain's "Respectful" Campaign

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 28 2008 11:18 AM | PERMALINK

    Sunday Show Roundup: McCain's "Respectful" Campaign

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Sen. McCain's extreme makeover continues.  And Sunday show yakkers are eager to sign on.

  • TPMtv: Stupidest Guy on Earth Speaks Out

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 16 2008 12:38 PM | PERMALINK

    Stupidest Guy on Earth Speaks Out

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The President bears the greatest responsibility for the catastrophe of the Iraq war.  He was the key decision maker at every point.  And he's fundamentally accountable.  But if you look into the innards of the process that led to war there is probably no one who was either responsible for or involved with more of the bad decisions, more of the conscious decisions or horrible ideas than Doug Feith. You'd think someone like that would be...

  • TPMtv: "Progress" Report

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 09 2008 03:32 PM | PERMALINK

    "Progress" Report

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Seven months after the start of the "surge," General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday to update senators on the "fragile and reversible" progress in Iraq. We have the highlights.

  • TPMtv: 100 Years of Quietude?

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 08 2008 11:46 AM | PERMALINK

    100 Years of Quietude?

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: John McCain won't stop trying to change the subject.  And the RNC just won't stop lying on his behalf about his 100 years in Iraq remark.  In today's episode we run through the record.  That one townhall event wasn't the only time he said this.  At other points he said 1000 years, 10,000 years, even a million years.  In other words, he was saying this all the time. Now he wants to run away from it, change the subject, change what he meant and...

  • TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: Petraeus Part Deux

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 07 2008 11:13 AM | PERMALINK

    Sunday Show Roundup: Petraeus Part Deux

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: In advance of Tuesday's congressional appearances by Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker, the Sunday shows were all Iraq. Was the Basra offensive successful? Did the surge work? Is political reconciliation occurring? It's all good, if you're a Republican deadender.

  • TPMtv: McCain's Achilles Heel

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, MARCH 26 2008 11:14 AM | PERMALINK

    McCain's Achilles Heel

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: 100 years?  1,000 years?  10,000 years!?!  Think what you want about who's being unfair, who should drop and the like in the primary race.  The Democrats are missing a big opportunity to strike early at John McCain's Achilles heel -- his lockstep support for an extremely unpopular war.  We lay out the key points in today's episode of TPMtv.

  • 5 years in Iraq: A collection of Iraqi perspective on the invasion and current situation

    POSTED BY KRISTIN LINDER, MARCH 21 2008 10:08 AM | PERMALINK

     


     

    The papers and blogs have been filled with commentary on the 5 year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Our friend Juan Cole over at Informed Comment, however, set himself apart by collecting commentary from Iraqi sources of their perception of the anniversary. All the following transcripts are from his hard work.

    Al-Rafidayn channel, a Sunni-fundamentalist channel affiliated with the Association of Muslim Scholars, had this to say (announcer read):


    Harith al-Dari, secretary general of the...

  • TPMtv: Unfit to Serve

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, MARCH 19 2008 04:11 PM | PERMALINK

    Unfit to Serve

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The gaffes are the least of it. In today's episode of TPMtv, we discuss why John McCain's poor grasp of foreign policy and military strategy makes him a dangerous choice for the role of commender-in-chief.

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