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	<title>There Is No Plan &#187; Bush</title>
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	<description>Risk-averse policymakers should not read this blog.</description>
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		<title>Leaving Iraq. More Powerful Arguments Against.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/04/leaving-iraq-more-powerful-arguments-against/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/04/leaving-iraq-more-powerful-arguments-against/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Basra]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Ricks&#8217; new book &#8220;The Gamble&#8221; is going to make some waves, and the author&#8217;s interview on NPR this morning is just the latest. This blog is an advocate of Obama leaving US troops in Iraq for the long term. It&#8217;s becoming increasingly clear that Obama is caught between a rock and a hard place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Continuing The Neo-Liberalism Discussion</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/27/continuing-the-neo-liberalism-discussion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/27/continuing-the-neo-liberalism-discussion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Badd Bob of Planned Obsolescence has built on my discussion about Neo-Liberalism with a thought-provoking post that asks some fascinating long term questions about where US hegemony could lead. Badd Bob puts China at the top of his list of adversarial states, but he questions how forceful the US can be in establishing and directing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whither Gitmo &#8211; What Are the Risks of Closing Guantanamo?</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/26/whither-gitmo-what-are-the-risks-of-closing-guantanamo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/26/whither-gitmo-what-are-the-risks-of-closing-guantanamo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America At War]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thereisnoplan.wordpress.com/?p=837</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the many black marks on the Bush Administration will be the following; they sure were talented at getting us into jams we couldn&#8217;t get out of. Iraq, and Afghanistan are top of the list, but just below them is Gitmo. Opened at a time when Bush and the neo-cons really did think that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulus Package. The Politics Of Panic.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/20/stimulus-package-the-politics-of-panic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/20/stimulus-package-the-politics-of-panic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who came up with the cockamamie idea of the &#8216;economic stimulus&#8217;? The Bushies. During the post Bear-Stearns policy meltdown, when Paulson and his merry band of idiots put together policy on the fly, all we heard was how we needed to stimulate the economy. Well, we did an awful lot of stimulating but we&#8217;re in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Brown Is Back!</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/14/gordon-brown-is-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/14/gordon-brown-is-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thereisnoplan.wordpress.com/?p=585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson who coined the term &#8220;A week is a long time in politics&#8221;, and while Gordon Brown&#8217;s astonishing turnaround as British Prime Minister has taken a little longer than that, it has been truly remarkable. When the British public turn on their leaders, they do it with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk About &#8220;The System&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/24/lets-talk-about-the-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/24/lets-talk-about-the-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thereisnoplan.wordpress.com/?p=265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the eighties there was an awful lot of talk about the nefarious &#8220;system&#8221;, a deep and dark conspiracy of the powerful to keep down the powerless. Before resentment became a tool of the right, it was a clarion call of the unreconstructed left, a youthful, incoherent, but somehow meaningful rallying cry that drove [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq &#8211; Status Of Forces. Dangerous.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/21/iraq-status-of-forces-dangerous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/21/iraq-status-of-forces-dangerous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the United States will be out of Iraq by the end of 2011. With the December 31 deadline on the UN Resolution allowing US forces to operate in Iraq only a few weeks away, Maliki simply ran out the clock forcing the US hand on a number of key issues, which in years past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paulson &#8211; The Man With The Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/12/paulson-the-man-with-the-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/12/paulson-the-man-with-the-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business BS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After nationalizing Fannie and Freddie, then letting Lehman Brothers die for no apparent reason, then bailing out AIG to the tune of $85 billion (now around $150 billion but who&#8217;s counting), Hank Paulson sat back to watch the credit markets unfreeze. But instead they just froze up some more. Hank was totally bummed. &#8220;This job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Undoing The Damage &#8211; Bushwhacking 1.0</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/09/undoing-the-damage-bushwhacking-10/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/09/undoing-the-damage-bushwhacking-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to show the world you&#8217;re in charge and working hard without awkward press conferences that mean very little then&#8230; This is how it&#8217;s done. Unlike the slightly nonsensical symbolism of the &#8220;Economic Bigshot&#8221; press conference that Obama gave on Friday afternoon, the more studied release of information about his long-time preparations to [...]]]></description>
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