Lawmakers are agreed: We should not invade Canada. Debate over a Senate Democratic proposal to tap “unspent” Afghanistan war funds to cover the cost of halting budget sequestration veered today into the theoretical. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois was on...
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A Canadian flag flies over the Berens River in Berens River, Manitoba.
Canadian Invasion Not in the Budget
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House Jan. 11, 2013 in Washington.
Obama-Karzai: Springtime Handoff for Security, U.S. Draw-Down Follows
President Barack Obama, discussing the hand-off of security in Afghanistan to the government of Hamid Karzai and the draw-down of U.S. troops, was asked today of the “huge” cost of life involved in the war there is justified — in...
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Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan participate in the vice presidential debate at the Norton Center at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, on October 10, 2012, moderated by Martha Raddatz, center, of ABC News.
Biden and Ryan Argue Over Tank Funding Army Doesn’t Want
The war in Iraq ended in December 2011 and the U.S. is winding down the war in Afghanistan. So you’d think it would be a no-brainer to cut costs for war-related equipment. Not so, the Pentagon has discovered. The military...
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Mitt Romney arrives at Dulles International Airport in Sterling, Va., on Sept. 12, 2012.
Romney: U.S. at `Mercy of Events’
Republican Mitt Romney has fielded criticism this week for his comments about the U.S. embassy and consulate attacks in Egypt and Libya — with President Barack Obama accusing his rival of shooting first, aiming later. Campaigning today in one of...
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Sgt. Joseph Barrow of 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 1-17 Infantry, uses his scope to monitor suspicious men in the distance during an operation to remove tree cover used by enemy fighters near COP Ghundy Ghar in Zharay District, Kandahar Province.
Romney: `Going to Beat the Guy’ — Explains No War Talk at Convention
“We’re going to beat the guy, you know that?” Republican Mitt Romney told some supporters in New Hampshire today. “We’re going to get back the White House, we’re going to get back our country and we’re going to make sure...
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President Barack Obama speaks to troops at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 31, 2012.
Obama: `Battle-Tested,’ Saying So
There was no talk of the war in Afghanistan in Republican Mitt Romney’s speech accepting his party’s presidential nomination. There will be plenty of talk about war, and peace, in Charlotte this week. ”You’re going to hear about it from...
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President Bush, right, is followed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, center, prior to making a statement to reporters at Al-Asad Airbase in Anbar province, Iraq, in this 2007 file photo.
Obama Invokes Bush’s Wars, Romney’s Tax Cuts as More of Same
President Barack Obama has talked about the mess he inherited. Now he’s talking about that mess in the context of the candidate who wants to replace him as president: “You watched and worried — two wars, tax cuts for millionaires,...
Read more »Clinton: Afghanistan’s New Status – `Not Even Imagining Abandoning’
As the U.S. winds down its war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama has effectively removed two long-running wars from this year’s election debate. And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was Obama’s most threatening election challenger in 2008, is nearing...
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A soldier at Section 60, an area largely used for those who died while serving in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, at Arlington National Cemetery on May 24, 2012.
Obama, Romney Honoring War Dead
This will be the first presidential election in modern times in which neither major party’s nominee is a military veteran. Still, today, President Barack Obama will serve a traditional role with a wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns at...
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