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Britain would have backed the invasion of Iraq even if it had been known that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), former prime minister Tony Blair said Saturday.
President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Thursday with a mix of humility and defiance to answer critics who said he won the prestigious prize too soon and questioned whether it was deserved.
President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech Thursday is drawing praise from some unlikely quarters – conservative Republicans – who likened Obama’s defense of “just wars” to the worldview of his predecessor, Republican George W. Bush.
If any further evidence were needed of the distance between running for president and being president, it came Thursday in Oslo as President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. The politician who had sought the White House as the champion of the antiwar forces in his party spoke as the commander in chief, offering a principled defense of waging just wars.
OSLO -- President Obama delivered an impassioned rationale for war in accepting the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, a paradox that he acknowledged, even as he defended the United States' record abroad in promoting human rights, individual freedom and global security.
Highly trained personnel employed with the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide sometimes operated side by side with CIA field officers in Iraq and Afghanistan as the agency undertook missions to kill or capture members of insurgent groups in those countries, according to ...
Palin Says President's Remarks About Afghanistan Match Her Own Opinions as Laid out in Memoir
The state's political center moved eastward this weekend, as the state's top elected officials and candidates flew to New York for the 110th annual Pennsylvania Society gathering.
While I did not have the opportunity to read the P. Skurkiss letter, I did have the opportunity to read that of J. Claps. Skurkiss has nothing to be ashamed of.
As Nobel prize winner Obama heads to Oslo to accept his Peace Prize on Thursday, opponents of his escalation of the Afghanistan war promise to demonstrate against him.
Motive doesn't matter
DENVER — The resignation this week of a judge of the federal appeals court that serves Kansas gives Democratic President Barack Obama more opportunity to shape the court. It also presents the opportunity for one of the Kansas judges of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to become chief judge. read more
If health care legislation extends coverage to millions, Gary Wiltz says his clinic gains reimbursements that can cover needed preventative care.
Senators unveiled a framework for future US action on climate change, embracing emission cuts in a boost for the Copenhagen summit, but also including controversial measures on nuclear power and offshore drilling.
Editor's note: It seems like just yesterday the world heralded the start of a new millennium while fearing the onslaught of the Y2K bug. So much has happened since, in a decade that produced some of the most extraordinary events in memory.
Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his presidency, a fresh Obama doctrine. Evil must be vigorously opposed, he declared as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday. At the same time, he made an impassioned case for building a "just and lasting peace."
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