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Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

By August 1863 the United States had suffered a quarter of a million casualties. Copperhead Democrats would seek to oust Lincoln in the 1864 election in order to end the war through concessions to the Confederacy. Lincoln’s presence at the dedication ceremony...

Iraq in the Media

Over the last month or two the Newsburglar has been trying to introduce you to the incredible work being done by independent journalists such as Michael Yon, Michael Totten, and The Long War Journal. All three have been relaying stories on how the situation in Iraq...

Iraqi Opinion Polls

The other day I posted a couple of polls comparing Iraqi and American public opinion. Those polls were just excerpts of a comprehensive poll of Iraqi’s conducted for ABC News, Interviews were conducted in person, in Arabic or Kurdish, among a random national...

Two More Iraq Opinion Polls

Here are two more polls. One from Iraq, one from the United States, both regarding how long the United States should remain in Iraq. The wording of these two polls are not as similar as the one above. Comparisons are thus more difficult. One has outcome based choices....