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Catholic League Calls For War

The Catholic League published the above message in today’s New York Times.

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McCain Battles With Former White House Spokesman Jay Carney Over ISIS Plan

Mediaite sets the stage: Jay Carney, on his very first night working for CNN, ended up sparring with Senator John McCain over President Obama‘s ISIS speech, in which McCain repeatedly took shots at Carney for not telling the truth, saying at least once that “facts are stubborn things.” The second McCain appeared on CNN, he immediately got combative with Carney. …

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Obama: It’s Time To Get ISIS

Via CNN: It’s time to go after ISIS in Iraq and Syria, President Barack Obama said Wednesday night in a nationally televised address intended to sell stepped-up military efforts to a war-weary public. Obama said the United States would expand its airstrikes against the Sunni jihadists in Iraq to target them across the border in Syria. “I have made it …

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Ukraine PM: Russia Wants World War III

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk today declared that Russia wants to start World War III. “Attempts at military conflict in Ukraine will lead to a military conflict in Europe,” he told an interim cabinet meeting that was broadcast live. The remarks were also translated into English and posted on the official government website. “The world has not yet forgotten World …

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Russia Test-Fires ICBM

Via Reuters: Russia said it had successfully test-fired an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) on Tuesday, with tensions high over its seizure of control in the Crimea and its threat to send more forces to its neighbour Ukraine. The Strategic Rocket Forces launched an RS-12M Topol missile from the southerly Astrakhan region near the Caspian Sea and the dummy warhead hit …

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Sen. John McCain: Ukraine Crisis Is Result Of Obama’s “Feckless Foreign Policy”

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Russia Issues Ultimatum To Ukraine Military: Leave Crimea By 10PM Tonight

Russia today issued an ultimatum to Ukraine, saying that if the Ukraine military is not withdrawn from Crimea by 10PM tonight (NYC time), there will be a “military storm.” Aleksandr Vitko, Russia’s Black Sea fleet commander, said that “ff they won’t surrender by 5 a.m. tomorrow (10 p.m. ET Monday) there will be a military storm on all UA (Ukraine …

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John Kerry On Ukraine: President Obama Is Considering All Options

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Kerry Announces Agreement On Syria

NPR has this morning’s development: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Saturday they have reached an agreement on a framework for Syria to destroy all of its chemical weapons, and raised the specter of a potential U.N. Security Council resolution that could authorize sanctions — even military action — if President Bashar Assad’s …

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Obama Addresses Nation On Syria

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Senate Vote On Syria Postponed

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Headline Of The Day

MSNBC has the latest: Syria confirmed it would accept a Russian-brokered deal to hand over its chemical weapons Tuesday, but the White House said President Barack Obama would still ask Congress to approve the use of military force against Damascus. Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem told NBC News in Moscow that he hoped acceptance of the “peaceful solution” would “put …

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Tweet Of The Day – Rep. Alan Grayson

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Senate Vote On Syria Is Wednesday

Wednesday is also the anniversary of 9-11 and that has Teabagistan very upset.

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Headline Of The Day

CBS News reports: Syria on Monday quickly welcomed a call from Russia, its close ally, to place Syrian chemical arsenals under international control, then destroy them to avert a U.S. strike, but did not offer a time frame or any other specifics. The statement by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem appeared to mark the first official acknowledgement by Damascus that …

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Bill O’Reilly Backs Obama On Syria

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Tweet Of The Day – Wall Street Journal

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Sen. Bernie Sanders On Syria

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Where Does Congress Stand On Syria?

The Washington Post has created an interactive graph which notes the known positions of Congress members on a possible US strike on Syria. So far only two Senate Democrats have said that they oppose US intervention: Sen. Chris Murphy (CT) and Sen. Tom Udall (NM). Perhaps the most notable House Democrat to oppose intervention so far is Rep. Alan Grayson …

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Syria Protests Planned Nationwide

The International Action Center has posted a lengthy list of planned protests against US intervention in Syria, most of which are scheduled for this Saturday. In New York City, anti-war activists will gather in Times Square at 1PM. We are non-violently protesting the escalation of US military involvement in Syria, as well as the complete disregard of the will of …

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