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	<title>Crikey &#187; war in Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>A peace prize for the president of war</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-the-president-of-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-the-president-of-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nobel peace prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama's Nobel Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama wins a Nobel peace prize AND may escalate a war? Well, we live in post-ironical times, where we all dutifully believe six impossible things before breakfast. Like, nuclear weapons are ultimately peaceful.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>How the pundits got it oh so wrong on Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/07/how-the-pundits-got-it-oh-so-wrong-on-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/07/how-the-pundits-got-it-oh-so-wrong-on-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative commentators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Sheridan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael duffy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Piers Akerman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Given the almost universal recognition that the Afghanistan campaign has become a bloody mess, it’s worth revisiting some of the pundits who initially sold us the war.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>At Stars and Stripes independent, investigative journalism soldiers on</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/28/at-stars-and-stripes-independent-investigative-journalism-soldiers-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/28/at-stars-and-stripes-independent-investigative-journalism-soldiers-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embedded journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rendon Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stars and Stripes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Armed Forces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[America's daily military paper <i>Stars and Stripes</i> has been doing some nice investigative journalism recently on the issue of censorship and embedded journalists in Afghanistan. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another stolen generation?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/27/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-82/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/27/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-82/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francisco Franco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Territory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another stolen generation is coming to light in Spain, with further information leaking about dictator General Franco's actions. Also, the rising list of Afghan casualties is becoming an issue for US president Barack Obama. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crikey wrap: Afghans head to the polls</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/21/crikey-wrap-afghanis-head-to-the-polls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/21/crikey-wrap-afghanis-head-to-the-polls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Afghanis headed to the polls on Thursday amidst fears of violent attacks from Islamist Taliban forces, writes Crikey intern Emily Finlay.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama in black and white</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/18/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-75/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/18/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-75/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Richard Farmer</b> explains why there are still two Americas, and looks at anti-war sentiment in Australia and across the pond.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>What are we fighting for in Afghanistan?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/17/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-74/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/17/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-74/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan has quietly passed a law permitting Shiite men to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands' sexual demands. Not that the Australian press has noticed, says <b>Richard Farmer</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Afghanistan: are assassinations the only answer?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/11/afghanistan-are-assassinations-the-only-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/11/afghanistan-are-assassinations-the-only-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assassin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When the military draws up its death lists, how does it distinguish between civilian and military targets? Should drug traffickers be put on the assassination list?
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blair cheers on the barmy army</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/10/blair-cheers-on-the-barmy-army/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/10/blair-cheers-on-the-barmy-army/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Telegraph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Blair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australia's brief rally in that pointless nineteenth-century game -- the Afghan war, not the Ashes though the latter term fits -- has made Tim Blair all excited.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Afghanistan: a mess wrapped in a blood-soaked riddle</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/24/afghanistan-a-mess-wrapped-in-a-blood-soaked-riddle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/24/afghanistan-a-mess-wrapped-in-a-blood-soaked-riddle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on terror]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pro-war pundits contrast the theocratic rule of the Taliban circa 2000 with an Afghan future that exists only in their imagination, neatly ignoring the real Afghanistan that the war has brought into being, writes <b>Jeff Sparrow</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is it time to bring the troops home?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/20/mungo-is-it-time-to-bring-the-troops-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/20/mungo-is-it-time-to-bring-the-troops-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mungo MacCallum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mungo MacCallum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Fitzgibbon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After seven years of achieving very little, it may be timely to ask just how and when we an expect to bring the troops home from Afghanistan.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Are allied troops dying for an Afghan man&#8217;s right to rape his wife?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/06/are-allied-troops-dying-for-an-afghan-mans-right-to-r-pe-his-wife/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/06/are-allied-troops-dying-for-an-afghan-mans-right-to-r-pe-his-wife/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marital rape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sharia law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have come to the end-point of the Afghan adventure. After eight years it is over, writes <b>Guy Rundle</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mission to Afghanistan: keeping the least worst warlord in power</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/13/mission-to-afghanistan-keeping-the-least-worst-warlord-in-power/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/13/mission-to-afghanistan-keeping-the-least-worst-warlord-in-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian defence force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guantanamo bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Overwhelming military power coupled with a vague confidence in our benevolence doesn’t usually end up so well, writes <b>Jeff Sparrow</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/13/mission-to-afghanistan-keeping-the-least-worst-warlord-in-power/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Afghanistan &#8212; so why are we there again?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/afghanistan-so-why-are-we-there-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/afghanistan-so-why-are-we-there-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on terror]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s clear that Afghanistan’s future will look pretty much like Afghanistan’s past, writes <b>Jeff Sparrow</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Farewell to Dubya, worst president ever</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/07/farewell-to-dubya-worst-president-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/07/farewell-to-dubya-worst-president-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US08]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on terror]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our laughter at the idiot who was cunning enough to steal the US presidency died in our throats as he set about inflicting profound damage on the rest of the world, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Charlie Wilson&#8217;s Afghan f*ck-up:</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/19/charlie-wilsons-afghan-fck-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/19/charlie-wilsons-afghan-fck-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cold war warriors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on terror]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our military campaign in Afghanistan involves allying ourselves with thugs who may be tomorrow’s bin-Ladins, writes <b>Irfan Yusuf</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd unleashes inner bogan in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/18/rudd-unleashes-inner-bogan-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/18/rudd-unleashes-inner-bogan-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rudd’s hardly the first politician to speak differently depending on the circumstances, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Warlords and generals: From Iraq to Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/16/warlords-and-generals-from-iraq-to-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/16/warlords-and-generals-from-iraq-to-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Rumsfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The maintenance of a standing army of occupiers provides the perfect incubator for corruption and brutality, writes <b>Jeff Sparrow</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/16/warlords-and-generals-from-iraq-to-afghanistan/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Rundle: Dubya&#8217;s last days</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/15/rundle-dubyas-last-days/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/15/rundle-dubyas-last-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guantanamo bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[september 11 2001]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US08]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dubya is almost jaunty these days, as the sand runs out of the hourglass on his disastrous reign, writes <b>Guy Rundle</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mungo: Obama&#8217;s presidency faces a world of trouble</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/10/mungo-obamas-presidency-faces-a-world-of-trouble/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/10/mungo-obamas-presidency-faces-a-world-of-trouble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ABC Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our days as Washington’s pet poodle are well and truly over; another pooch entirely is to be installed in the White House, writes <b>Mungo MacCallum</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/10/mungo-obamas-presidency-faces-a-world-of-trouble/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Troops mutiny in an Afghanistan campaign first</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/09/troops-mutiny-in-an-afghanistan-campaign-first/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/09/troops-mutiny-in-an-afghanistan-campaign-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[australian denfence force]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[24 Dutch troops in Afghanistan have been suspended following a refusal to follow orders in what has been described as the first “mutiny” of the conflict, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/09/troops-mutiny-in-an-afghanistan-campaign-first/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Terrorism, American style</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/12/terrorism-american-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/12/terrorism-american-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collateral damage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[But rules governing barbarians don’t inhibit the Empire, and so George Bush has casually authorized ground forces to launch attacks on Pakistani soil, writes <b>Jeff Sparrow</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reporting on Afghanistan: media v the military</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/04/reporting-on-afghanistan-media-v-the-military/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/04/reporting-on-afghanistan-media-v-the-military/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian defence force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tom hyland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian military’s intolerance of independent reporting reflects a deeper anxiety that has its origins in the media management challenges posed by a long war, writes <b>Kevin Foster</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/04/reporting-on-afghanistan-media-v-the-military/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Afghan dog pen demeans us and emboldens the insurgents</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/02/afghan-dog-pen-demeans-us-and-emboldens-the-insurgents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/02/afghan-dog-pen-demeans-us-and-emboldens-the-insurgents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian defence force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Fitzgibbon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel Fitzgibbon should apologise for this breach of human rights by Australian soldiers, writes <b>Keysar Trad</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/02/afghan-dog-pen-demeans-us-and-emboldens-the-insurgents/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Overstretched ADF can&#8217;t supply backup to Tarin Kowt</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/overstretched-adf-cant-supply-backup-to-tarin-kowt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/overstretched-adf-cant-supply-backup-to-tarin-kowt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel Fitzgibbon’s admission that there is no immediate solution to the problem of insufficient helicopters at Tarin Kowt to evacuate injured Australian or allied personnel is deeply alarming, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/overstretched-adf-cant-supply-backup-to-tarin-kowt/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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