<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Condoleezza Rice Says She's `Proud' of Decision to Invade Iraq : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>67768</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/67768/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice Says She's `Proud' of Decision to Invade Iraq]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;And I am proud of the decision of this administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein,'' said Rice, who was Bush's national security adviser at the time of the March 2003 invasion. As of yesterday, 4,107 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq and more than 30,000 were wounded. She said the Iraq war has been &quot;tougher than any of us really dreamed.'']]></description><comments>3</comments><score>-45</score><crdate>7/4/2008 9:51:03 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-04T21:51:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17648</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17648/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Iraq: 9 U.S. soldiers killed by car bomb ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In one of the deadliest attacks on American ground forces since the Iraq war started more than four years ago, a suicide car bomber struck a patrol base northeast of Baghdad and killed nine U.S. soldiers and wounded 20.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>28</score><crdate>4/24/2007 9:15:59 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-24T09:15:59+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>34344</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34344/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bush visits Iraq. Surprise!]]></title><description><![CDATA[The president secretly flew 11 hours to Iraq as a showdown nears with Congress over whether his decision in January to order 30,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq is working.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>45</score><crdate>9/3/2007 8:37:50 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-03T08:37:50+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48360</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48360/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Saddam Faked Having WMD To Prevent Iran From Invading Iraq]]></title><description><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein initially didn't think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>304</score><crdate>1/25/2008 12:51:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-25T12:51:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40458</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40458/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Faulty Intel Source &quot;Curve Ball&quot; Revealed]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than a hundred summaries of his debriefings were sent to the CIA, which then became a pillar - along with the now-disproved Iraqi quest for uranium for nuclear weapons - for the U.S. decision to bomb and then invade Iraq. The CIA-director George Tenet gave Alwan&#8217;s information to Secretary of State Colin Powell to use at the U.N. in his speech justifying military action against Iraq.<br/><br/>**OMG Don't we have fact checkers????**]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>102</score><crdate>11/2/2007 8:46:57 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-02T20:46:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59500</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/59500/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Carter: Rice is a liar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ok, not in those words.<br/><br/>&quot;President Carter has the greatest respect for ... [Condoleezza] Rice and believes her to be a truthful person. However, perhaps inadvertently, she is continuing to make a statement that is not true.&quot;]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>66</score><crdate>4/24/2008 12:31:35 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-24T00:31:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>3425</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/3425/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Rice to bolster N Korea sanctions ]]></title><description><![CDATA[US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she will use her tour of Asia this week to rally partners behind sanctions imposed by the UN on North Korea.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>10/16/2006 11:25:06 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-16T23:25:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>62707</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/62707/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Searching For A New American Policy For Iraq]]></title><description><![CDATA[retired CIA station chief and head of the Agency's counterterrorism staff examines the Bush administration's Iraq policy and finds that it cannot be successful. He calls for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, a &#8220;complete change&#8221; in U.S. goals and tactics in the Middle East, and rebuilding bridges to allies.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>104</score><crdate>5/21/2008 11:48:29 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-21T23:48:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40814</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40814/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Why we are so slow in pulling out of Iraq]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here is a video of U.S. soldiers teaching Iraq soldiers jumping jacks.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>78</score><crdate>11/6/2007 1:57:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-06T13:57:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>2024</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/2024/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Resistance growing among soldiers in Iraq?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peter Laufer, author, delivers stirring speech to Rep. Lynn Woolsey's Iraq forum, &quot;The Mounting Costs of the U.S. Military Occupation of Iraq and Lost Opportunities.&quot; He speaks of the growing Iraq resistance movement in the U.S. military.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>20</score><crdate>10/4/2006 1:50:52 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-04T01:50:52+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>3788</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/3788/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Rice in China for N Korea talks]]></title><description><![CDATA[US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in China for talks with leaders amid intensive diplomacy over the North Korean nuclear crisis.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>10/20/2006 1:04:45 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-20T01:04:45+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54799</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/54799/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Most Americans Say War Not Worth It]]></title><description><![CDATA[One the eve of the five-year anniversary of the start of the war with Iraq, Americans continue to think the results of the war have not been worth the loss of American lives and the other costs of attacking Iraq, according to a new CBS News poll.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>276</score><crdate>3/18/2008 9:56:21 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-18T21:56:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50124</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50124/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning]]></title><description><![CDATA[The study&#8217;s wide-ranging critique of the White House, the Defense Department and other government agencies was a concern for Army generals, and the Army has sought to keep the report under lock and key.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>211</score><crdate>2/11/2008 8:03:11 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-11T08:03:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>12769</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/12769/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Iraq Asks for Help to Stop Violence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iraq&#8217;s Prime Minister, at a regional conference in Baghdad asked Iraq&#8217;s neighbors for help. He opened the conference with an address to back his efforts to stop violence in Iraq by refusing to finance attacks. The conference was quite tensionate mainly because of the two main players who attended the meeting: United States and Iran.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>11</score><crdate>3/10/2007 4:44:41 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-10T16:44:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57211</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57211/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Rapid Withdrawal Is Only Solution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Iraq by William E. Odom, LT General, USA, Ret.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>225</score><crdate>4/6/2008 10:12:27 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-06T22:12:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>52332</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/52332/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Soldier Stages Shooting to Avoid Iraq]]></title><description><![CDATA[A soldier trying to avoid redeployment to Iraq had a friend shoot him in the leg and then claimed he'd been wounded in a holdup, authorities said.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>211</score><crdate>2/27/2008 7:15:47 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-27T19:15:47+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>23529</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/23529/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Iraq war has 26 percent chance of success, University's statistical system predicts]]></title><description><![CDATA['Mission creep' in the Iraq conflict has dropped US chances of success from 70 percent to 26 percent, says a University of Georgia researcher. The predictions were made by a statistical system that has been accurate in 80 percent of former conflicts, said assistant professor Patricia L. Sullivan. The same approach gave a 93% chance of success for the first Iraq War in 1991.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>26</score><crdate>6/12/2007 9:33:10 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-12T09:33:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>26268</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26268/1/</url><title><![CDATA[PM outlines plans to keep troops in Iraq]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE Defence Minister today listed the security of the world's oil supply as one of the major reasons for Australia's continuing military presence in Iraq as John Howard spelled out plans to keep troops in the country.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>9</score><crdate>7/5/2007 3:25:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-05T03:25:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50642</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50642/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Iraq Vet Comes Home, Gets Evicted]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Nebraska National Guard soldier recently back from Iraq is fighting an eviction notice from his landlord.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>398</score><crdate>2/14/2008 9:45:40 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-14T21:45:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>29450</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29450/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Private contractors outnumber U.S. troops in Iraq]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 180,000 civilians &#8212; including Americans, foreigners and Iraqis &#8212; are working in Iraq under U.S. contracts,]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>64</score><crdate>7/29/2007 12:16:23 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-29T12:16:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>63389</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/63389/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Free Rice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Match words to their synonyms.  For each word you get correct, 20 grains of rice are donated through the UN World Food Program to needy people around the globe.<br/><br/>In other words: Kill time, help feed the people of the world, and possibly improve your vocabulary.]]></description><comments>14</comments><score>89</score><crdate>5/27/2008 10:34:27 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-27T22:34:27+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>