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	<title>If Bush Did It &#187; Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>Obama Budget Seeks Tax Increase on Wealthy — Again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HansonLorna33</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's like a broken record, and the political battles will be like Groundhog Day. At Los Angeles Times , " Obama's budget plan draws upon his previous proposals ": President Obama will call for new spending on infrastructure, education and manufacturing research, as well as higher taxes on top earners, in a budget proposal aimed at underlining his top economic priorities as he gears up his reelection campaign. Senior administration officials Friday offered a preview of the president's 2013 budget proposal, which is due to be formally unveiled Monday. The blueprint outlined pulls heavily from proposals previously put forward by the president — including his jobs bill, most of which is stalled in Congress, and his deficit reduction plan, which fizzled in the failed congressional "super committee" charged with reducing the deficit. Officials said the budget would abide by spending caps set by Congress in the August budget deal, keeping discretionary spending levels essentially flat in fiscal 2013. Over the decade, discretionary spending would drop from 8.7% of gross domestic product to 5%, officials said. To achieve that, the August agreement mandates steep and unpopular cuts in defense and domestic spending, a result of the super committee's failure to forge a broader deficit reduction plan. The president's budget seeks to head off those cuts by offering up a new version of the deficit reduction package he introduced in September. The plan claims more than $4 trillion in deficit reduction. It would accomplish this through the expiration of President George W. Bush-era tax cuts on upper-income Americans, closing tax loopholes, winding down the military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan and cutting costs in Medicare and Medicaid. The plan will reiterate a call for tax reform to be guided by the so-called Buffett rule, the principle advocated by billionaire Warren Buffett that no household making more than $1 million a year should pay less than a 30% tax rate. But officials said the budget would not estimate how much revenue such a rule would generate. ]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing Life and Beating the Odds</title>
		<link>http://www.ifbushdidit.com/2012/02/11/choosing-life-and-beating-the-odds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joshuapousts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ **Written by Doug Powers Some of you might be familiar with Cassy Fiano, a writer/blogger I&#8217;ve gotten to know over the years. Cassy&#8217;s husband is in the US Marine Corps and is currently serving in Afghanistan. It&#8217;s through them that I became aware of, and have taken part in, the Project Valour-IT fundraisers (which Michelle has also been involved with). Recently Cassy and her husband got some troubling news: Their unborn son has been diagnosed with Down syndrome. Cassy has written about it in her latest column, Choosing Life and Beating the Odds: Accepting Down Syndrome . My wife and I have friends who have a similar story. Their son was born a couple of years ago and all I can say is they&#8217;ve never once regretted their decision (like Cassy, the alternative was never an option for them), and they can&#8217;t imagine their lives without him. If a society is indeed judged by how it treats its most helpless, people like Cassy, her husband, friends of my family and countless others out there who choose life are reasons to remain optimistic about our future. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe ]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened to All the Milblogs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThresaFralin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting discussion at Thunder Run , " Where Have the MilBlogs Gone? ", and " Where Have All the MilBlogs Gone – Part 2 ." Follow the links at Part 2 for some of the responses. ]]></description>
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		<title>Panetta Calls for New Probe Into Controversial Nazi SS Marine Photo</title>
		<link>http://www.ifbushdidit.com/2012/02/11/panetta-calls-for-new-probe-into-controversial-nazi-ss-marine-photo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_230831" align="aligncenter" width="429" caption="Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)"] [/caption] SAN DIEGO (The Blaze/AP) -- Yesterday, the Blaze reported that the military "handled" a situation involving Marine snipers who posed with a logo resembling a Nazi symbol. But now, just a day after the initial report made its way around the blogosphere, news is breaking that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has asked the Marine Corps to take another look at its investigation that concluded the men should not be disciplined. As we reported, Lt. Col. Stewart Upton initially said in a statement that the Marines' action was unacceptable. While no harsh penalties were paid by the soldiers involved, the sentiment was that, to a degree, the situation had been contended with. Apparently, verbal warnings, though, weren't enough. Pentagon press secretary George Little says that Panetta asked the Marine Corps Friday to look into the situation "and to take appropriate action." [caption id="attachment_240939" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="This is the image that was posted on the Knight&#39;s Armament Blog"] [/caption] CNN reports that, following the initial discovery of the image, the Marines' commander decided not to proceed with disciplinary action. However, those individuals involved were told that such behavior wouldn't be tolerated and that punishment would result if, indeed, they partook in similar conduct again. So, while the men were "punished" in the sense of receiving a warning and clarification as a result of their actions, no official military retribution was doled out -- an action that is clearly now being revisited and reassessed. CNN continues : The Marine Corps said it became aware of the photo last November and investigated, but found it not to be racially motivated, according to a statement released by a Marine Corps spokesman, Lt. Col. Stewart Upton. "Those involved acknowledged that the symbol could be misinterpreted and is not in keeping with our Marine Corps ethos and values," the statement said. Little, speaking in Washington, says racist and anti-Semitic symbols have absolutely no place alongside U.S. service members. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights group, has demanded President Barack Obama order an investigation and hold the troops accountable.]]></description>
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		<title>Dwindling time, rising tension make Iran top fear 
    (AP)</title>
		<link>http://www.ifbushdidit.com/2012/02/09/dwindling-time-rising-tension-make-iran-top-fear-ap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Munz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ AP - The prospect of conflict with Iran has eclipsed Afghanistan as the key national security issue with head-spinning speed. After years of bad blood and an international impasse over Iran's disputed nuclear program, why does the threat of war seem so suddenly upon us? ]]></description>
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		<title>Drone Strike Video</title>
		<link>http://www.ifbushdidit.com/2012/02/09/drone-strike-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>uwwalum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a lot of details, but pretty wicked. Via Weasel Zippers : ]]></description>
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		<title>Taliban deny their leader sent letter to Obama 
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonBillers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ AP - The Afghan Taliban on Saturday denied that their leader Mullah Omar had written to President Barack Obama last July. ]]></description>
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		<title>Anonymous Hacks Law Firm That Defended Marine in Iraqi Killing Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_236388" align="alignright" width="496" caption="Screenshot of the defaced law firm&#39;s website. The firm has since taken the site down until further notice."] [/caption] Adding to its most recent stint of revenge on organizations like the FBI and the Boston Police Department , the hacker collective Anonymous has infiltrated the website of a law firm that defended a U.S. Marine who killed 24 Iraqi citizens in 2005. Gizmodo reports that seven years ago, then Sergeant Frank Wuterich along with other Marines killed two dozen in Haditha, Iraq, in retaliation for an IED strike. Wuterich admitted to the killings and last week was charged with "negligent dereliction of duty" but did not receive any jail time or other punishment. Now, Anonymous is fighting what it believe is an injustice by attacking  Puckett &#038; Faraj , the firm that defended Wuterich. The firm's website is currently dysfunctional and Anonymous threatens having a host of private information that it will be releasing. Here's what Anonymous wrote (via Gizmod0): We went ahead and fired off some shots of our own -- at the servers and personal email accounts of Puckett &#038; Faraj. We defaced their website and dumped nearly 3GB of private email messages belonging to Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj. The contents of these email messages include detailed records, transcripts, testimony, trial evidence, and legal defense donation records pertaining to not only Frank Wuterich but also many other marines they have represented. And to add a few layers of icing to this delicious caek, we got the usual boatloads of embarrassing personal information. How do you think the world will react when they find out Neal Puckett and his marine buddies have been making crude jokes about the incident where marines have been caught on video pissing on dead bodies in Afghanistan? Or that he regularly corresponds with and receives funding from former marine Don Greenlaw who runs the racist blog http://snooper.wordpress.com? We believe it is time to release all of their private information and court evidence to the world and conduct a People's trial of our own. Gizmodo reports that a source within the hacker collective told them that all the attacks today (Related: Read about how Anonymous hacked into the FBI's conference call) are coordinated but have their own "particular motivations." Anonymous has also reportedly attacked the Texas Police Association's website, Salt Lake City police and Greece's justice ministry. Gizmodo also states that when they called Puckett &#038; Faraj, the firm didn't known it had been hacked yet.]]></description>
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		<title>Amid peace bid, U.S. got purported letter from Taliban 
    (Reuters)</title>
		<link>http://www.ifbushdidit.com/2012/02/04/amid-peace-bid-u-s-got-purported-letter-from-taliban-reuters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WillyHoustons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Reuters - The White House received a letter last year purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Taliban, asking the United States to deliver militant prisoners whose transfer is now at the heart of the Obama administration's bid to broker peace in Afghanistan. ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama plan would hire vets as cops, firefighters 
    (Reuters)</title>
		<link>http://www.ifbushdidit.com/2012/02/03/obama-plan-would-hire-vets-as-cops-firefighters-reuters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThresaFralin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters - President Barack Obama on Friday announced measures to hire Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to restore national parks and work as police and firefighters in a bid to cut veterans' above-average unemployment rate.]]></description>
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