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		<title>Is Islam THE Problem?</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2010/12/13/is-islam-the-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I don&#8217;t think that to be the case.  It&#8217;s not really about Islam generally speaking. It&#8217;s more complicated than that. Islam.  Muslims.  They&#8217;re not bad folks and many of them are damn fine people. The problem that we won&#8217;t face is the Nejd. Why? Saudi Arabia owns it and has BLACK GOLD. Also, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&amp;blog=2384303&amp;post=9425&amp;subd=hereticdhammasangha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shadow War against al Qaeda</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2010/10/20/shadow-war-against-al-qaeda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I disagree with waging this &#8220;Shadow War&#8221; against al Qaeda. Announce to the world that it is our intention to destroy al Qaeda.  They attacked our Nation.  They declared War.  We did not.  This is the War desired by Osama bin Laden and his motley crue of Wahhabist thieves, cuthroats and murderers.  They wanted it.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&amp;blog=2384303&amp;post=7868&amp;subd=hereticdhammasangha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Muslim World</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2010/06/23/the-muslim-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Muslim World Muslims see themselves as a community. They always have and always will. The only way to stop that is to kill all of them.  Christians think of themselves as a community as well.  Christendom is a concept only recently gone out of fashion. There are mentions of Christendom from the 19th [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&amp;blog=2384303&amp;post=7614&amp;subd=hereticdhammasangha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">I like this.  Except that I don&#039;t see any of them as scary.  I see those labeled as scary as folks who need to be dealt with violently.  Not all, but, those who would act violently against US.</media:title>
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		<title>Truth!</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2009/11/25/truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This is one of my biggest complaints about the media.  They almost completely ignore any positive story or spin on anything.  They&#8217;re all about manufacturing outrage. &#160; &#160; Tagged: Afghanistan, Iraq, positive reporting, the media and it's lies, u.s. military, US Media, western media<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&amp;blog=2384303&amp;post=5045&amp;subd=hereticdhammasangha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2009/02/28/3526/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to communicating with the local Air Traffic Control facility, all aircraft in the Persian Gulf AOR are required to give the Iranian Air Defense Radar (military) a ten minute &#8216;heads up&#8217; if they will be transiting Iranian airspace. This is a common procedure for commercial aircraft and involves giving them your call sign, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&amp;blog=2384303&amp;post=3526&amp;subd=hereticdhammasangha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Iraq By August 2010</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2009/02/26/out-of-iraq-by-august-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama Favoring Mid-2010 Pullout In Iraq, Aides Say (New York Times, Feb. 25, 2009, Pg. 1) President Obama is nearing a decision that would order American combat forces out of Iraq by August 2010, senior administration officials said, as he seeks to finally end a war that has consumed and polarized the United States for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&amp;blog=2384303&amp;post=3516&amp;subd=hereticdhammasangha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq:  Bush makes final Presidential visit.</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2008/12/14/iraq-bush-makes-final-presidential-visit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DECEMBER 14, 2008, 11:03 A.M. ET Bush Makes Surprise Trip to Iraq BAGHDAD &#8212; On a farewell trip to Iraq, President George W. Bush said Sunday the war has been hard but was necessary to protect the U.S. and give Iraqis hope for a peaceful future. Mr. Bush visited the Iraqi capital just 37 days [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&amp;blog=2384303&amp;post=2902&amp;subd=hereticdhammasangha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq insists on a fixed withdrawal date.</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2008/11/08/iraq-insists-on-a-fixed-withdrawal-date/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq Repeats Insistence On Fixed Withdrawal Date (Washington Post, November 7, 2008, Pg. 1) Two days after the election of Barack Obama, Iraq&#8217;s chief spokesman said with unusual forcefulness that his government will continue to insist on a firm withdrawal date for U.S. troops, despite American demands that any pullout be subject to prevailing security [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&amp;blog=2384303&amp;post=2759&amp;subd=hereticdhammasangha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqis lead final purge of Al-Qaeda</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2008/07/09/iraqis-lead-final-purge-of-al-qaeda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Sunday Times OF LONDON, ENGLAND July 6, 2008 Marie Colvin in Mosul American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror. After being forced from its strongholds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&amp;blog=2384303&amp;post=1509&amp;subd=hereticdhammasangha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Successful Counter-Insurgency in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2008/04/12/a-successful-counter-insurgency-in-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s &#8216;Surge&#8217; Some More By MICHAEL YON April 11, 2008 It is said that generals always fight the last war. But when David Petraeus came to town it was senators – on both sides of the aisle – who battled over the Iraq war of 2004-2006. That war has little in common with the war [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&amp;blog=2384303&amp;post=631&amp;subd=hereticdhammasangha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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