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	<title>Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent &#187; Iraq</title>
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	<description>Scott Bradford has been building web sites and using them to say what he thinks since 1995, which tended to get him in trouble with power-tripping assistant principals at the time. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University, but has spent most of his career (so far) working on public- and private-sector web sites. He is not a member of any political party, and brands himself an ‘independent constitutional conservative.’ In addition to holding down a day job and blogging about challenging subjects like politics, religion, and technology, Scott is also a devout Catholic, gun-owner, bike rider, and music lover with a wife and two cats.</description>
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		<title>The War in Iraq: Ten Myths</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/09/09/the-war-in-iraq-ten-myths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I&#8217;m being overly optimistic, but I think it&#8217;s about time that we take an honest, dispassionate look back at the War in Iraq. Few political subjects incite the kind of vitriolic rage that the Iraq war did during President George W. Bush&#8217;s (R) presidency, and many of the popular &#8216;facts&#8217; about the war that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Godspeed, SSG Green &amp; the 2-224th Aviation Battalion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Virginia Army National Guard&#8217;s 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment was mobilized yesterday into federal service and will be serving in Iraq. My close friend, SSG Wesley Green, is among the approximately 400 soldiers of the &#8216;Punishers.&#8217; They will be sent first to Fort Hood, TX for training and then, after &#8220;one to two months,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Can&#8217;t Stay Forever</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2009/12/03/we-cant-stay-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I supported—and, even in hindsight, continue to support—the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In both cases I believed that we were appropriately justified in military action. Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan were evil, genocidal leaders and removing them from power was a moral, righteous act. The mistakes that were made by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plain Ol&#8217; Discourtesy</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2008/07/06/plain-ol-discourtesy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote five years ago now about the &#8216;wrong way to protest&#8216;, positing that while people are free to protest against the war in Iraq (or anything else, for that matter) they should be aware that there are limitations to that right, and that—even when protesting in a legal way—being rude or discourteous is unlikely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scott McClellan Tells All</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2008/05/28/scott-mcclellan-tells-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 15:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big news in political circles this morning is the new book by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan which paints a not-so-pretty portrait of President Bush, especially related to the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina. This is notable, in my opinion, in that it is the first book (that I&#8217;m aware of) accusing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-War Occupations: A History Lesson</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2008/04/07/post-war-occupations-a-history-lesson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have long compared the Iraq War to World War II, at least in some respects, going all the way back before it started. Interestingly, the post-war occupation we are mired in now has even more parallels than the war itself. Big kudos to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, David Stafford at the Washington Post, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Choice in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2007/04/26/one-choice-in-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While our Congress stands on the verge of passing a resolution setting an artificial time-line for withdrawal from Iraq, an opinion piece by one of the few &#8216;liberal&#8217; Congressmen still making sense appeared in the Washington Post this morning. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who caucuses with the Democratic Party, speaks of the real—though preliminary—progress in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saddam Hussain Executed by Hanging</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2006/12/29/saddam-hussain-executed-by-hanging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein, former dictator of Iraq, was executed by hanging at approximately 10:00pm EST this evening (6:00am 12/30, Iraq time), reports senior U.S. officials and Hussein&#8217;s lawyers. The U.S. military in Iraq is on alert for possible reprisals by Baathist insurgents and other terrorist forces operating in the middle-eastern nation. Hussein was sentenced to death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisionist History: Antiwar Myths About Iraq, Debunked</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2006/05/23/revisionist-history-antiwar-myths-about-iraq-debunked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 17:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Wehner catalogues and debunks many of the myths spouted by the antiwar left. Whether you agree or disagree with the war in Iraq, I encourage you to give it a serious read. There are fair arguments to be made against the war, but many of those made in popular discourse are baseless. Maybe reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Do Some Soul Searching&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2005/12/07/do-some-soul-searching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 15:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall St. Journal today published the transcript from a speech that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld delivered on Monday at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. I hope you&#8217;ll give it a serious read. Rumsfeld doesn&#8217;t ignore the criticisms of the war or the difficulties we (and the Iraqi people) are facing, but—unlike most media [...]]]></description>
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