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	<title>Political Blotter &#187; Iraq War</title>
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		<title>Post office to be named for soldier slain in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/04/12/post-office-to-be-named-for-soldier-slain-in-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Mountain View post office will be named Saturday in honor of a local soldier who was killed in Iraq. Rep. Anna Eshoo, who authored the bill to dedicate the post office in honor of U.S. Army Lt. Kenneth Ballard, will attend the 1 p.m. ceremony at which a memorial plaque will be unveiled at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woolsey gives her 444th, final antiwar speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Lynn Woolsey, who is retiring from Congress in a few weeks, this morning delivered her 444th and final special order speech expressing her opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and her support for a “smart” approach to national security: Woolsey, D-San Rafael, will be succeeded in the next Congress by Rep.-elect Jared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McNerney voted for the war supplemental</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/07/28/mcnerney-voted-for-the-war-supplemental/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, was the only Bay Area House member to vote in favor of the $33 billion Afghanistan and Iraq war supplemental spending bill yesterday. The bill passed on a 308-114 vote. I asked McNerney’s office why he voted as he did, and how he felt about this week’s release of classified military [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How they voted on the war supplemental</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/06/17/how-they-voted-on-the-war-supplemental/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I reported Monday, Bay Area House members were being pressed by anti-war progressives on one side and by President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the other about how to vote on the $106 billion supplemental spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The House passed the bill late Tuesday on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House members pressured on war funding vote</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/06/15/house-members-pressured-on-war-funding-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=6946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Several Bay Area House members are among targets of a progressive Democratic phone/fax/email lobbying blitz pressuring them to vote against the $100 billion Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan war supplemental spending bill, even as the Obama Administration and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi try to whip votes into line for it. From Democrats.com: All 178 House Republicans plan to vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actors join Move America Forward&#8217;s &#8216;Troopathon&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/06/08/actors-join-move-america-forwards-troopathon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebs continue gravitating to the June 25 “Troopathon” conceived by the Sacramento-based, grassroots conservative Move America Forward to send the largest-ever shipment of care packages to U.S. troops serving overseas. The organization announced Monday that actors Kelsey Grammer and Gary Sinise have joined others including talk radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq War public opinions compiled</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/03/17/iraq-war-public-opinions-compiled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, has compiled the latest public opinion surveys on the Iraq War, which readers may find interesting as the U.S. enters into the sixth year of the war. Here&#8217;s the press release, which lists the highlights and links to the study: AEI Public Opinion Study: Public Opinion on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report details civil disobedience at recruiting sites</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/03/14/report-details-civil-disobedience-at-recruiting-sites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/03/14/report-details-civil-disobedience-at-recruiting-sites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Josh Richman at the Oakland Tribune blogged about a report out from Move America Forward, a conservative group responsible for the grassroots&#8217; response to Berkeley&#8217;s bid to expel a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting station. The document, Josh wrote, lists acts of civil disobedience, vandalism or violence at military recruiting stations across the nation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tauscher offers observations on fourth trip to Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2007/08/28/tauscher-offers-observations-on-fourth-trip-to-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a lengthy phone call with Rep. Ellen Tauscher this afternoon following her White House debriefing about her fourth trip to Iraq, she once again expressed her continued dissatisfaction with the pace of political progress there. (Tauscher posted a very interesting web diary during her trip. Click here to read her entries.) &#8220;It&#8217;s very apparent [...]]]></description>
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