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	<title>We Meant Well - Peter Van Buren</title>
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	<description>How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People</description>
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		<title>This Memorial Day: Remembering 4,700 Killed by US Drones</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/25/this-memorial-day-remembering-4700-killed-by-us-drones/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/25/this-memorial-day-remembering-4700-killed-by-us-drones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 11:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Memorial Day, in addition to our own dead, we remember the 4,700 people (estimated; the actual body count is classified and/or unknown) killed by American drones. While some were terrible people, many were collateral damage, innocents murdered by accident and simply tossed into the ever-growing pile of horrors the United States has created through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Killed Four Americans with Drones Since Nobel Peace Prize</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/23/obama-killed-four-americans-with-drones-since-nobel-peace-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/23/obama-killed-four-americans-with-drones-since-nobel-peace-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Awlaki]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wemeantwell.com/blog/?p=9969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress that U.S. drone strikes since 2009 have killed four Americans — three of whom were “not specifically targeted.” As Dangeroom reports, for all the effort that Obama has gone to in asserting that its drones only kill the people that the administration selects to kill, Holder wrote in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shipping Up to Boston: BBC, Brandeis, Brewery</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/22/shipping-up-to-boston-bbc-brandeis-brewery/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/22/shipping-up-to-boston-bbc-brandeis-brewery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wemeantwell.com/blog/?p=9946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was privileged while in Boston to sit at the WGBH PBS studios for an interview with the BBC Radio World Service. Our topic was the simmering chaos in free Iraq. With over 290 dead in the past month, the interviewer questioned me on whether things might get as bad as in 2006. My reply: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanging Out at the Playboy Mansion While Colonel Davis Waits for Justice</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/20/hanging-out-at-the-playboy-mansion-while-colonel-davis-waits-for-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/20/hanging-out-at-the-playboy-mansion-while-colonel-davis-waits-for-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hefner]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wemeantwell.com/blog/?p=9640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not to brag (OK, I&#8217;m bragging) but I am invited to the Playboy Mansion on May 22 to attend the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Awards. It is as good a place as any to hang out while one of this year&#8217;s award winners, Colonel Morris Davis, waits (and waits&#8230;) for justice as he struggles to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>So Who From State Will Testify Against Bradley Manning? A List.</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/17/so-who-from-state-will-testify-against-bradley-manning-a-list/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/17/so-who-from-state-will-testify-against-bradley-manning-a-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wemeantwell.com/blog/?p=9863</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The trial United States v. Pfc. Bradley Manning is being conducted in as much secrecy as the government thinks it can get away with. While the Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a petition requesting the Army Court of Criminal Appeals &#8220;to order the Judge to grant the public and press access to the government&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eric Holder is Not a Patriot</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/15/eric-holder-is-not-a-patriot/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/15/eric-holder-is-not-a-patriot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[* Most Popular]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wemeantwell.com/blog/?p=9932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric Holder has told us that he &#8220;recused&#8221; himself from decisions the organization he heads made to help destroy freedom of the press in the United States by seizing the phone records of the Associated Press. He simply said that he was not involved, so please address your concerns somewhere else. The President, Holder&#8217;s boss, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fmr. US Amb to Iraq Jim Jeffrey: Now Gasping for Lameness</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/14/fmr-us-amb-to-iraq-jim-jeffrey-now-gasping-for-lameness/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/14/fmr-us-amb-to-iraq-jim-jeffrey-now-gasping-for-lameness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embassy/State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kurd]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wemeantwell.com/blog/?p=9873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh my! Retired, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey has turned into a real tiger. Now at the Washington Institute, a &#8220;think&#8221; tank, Jeffrey surveyed the current crumbling scene in Iraq from his office window (May is already boiling, and April was the bloodiest month there since 2008, with 712 killed, 1,633 wounded in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>For Mom&#8217;s Sake: Close Guantanamo</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/12/for-moms-sake-close-guantanamo/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/12/for-moms-sake-close-guantanamo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 12:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gitmo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morris Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wemeantwell.com/blog/?p=9918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/11/doing-bad-by-doing-good-why-humanitarian-action-fails/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/11/doing-bad-by-doing-good-why-humanitarian-action-fails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 07:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PRT Life]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wemeantwell.com/blog/?p=9912</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of speaking yesterday at George Mason University alongside Christopher Coyne. Chris is the author of an excellent new book, Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails. This book should be required reading for every U.S. government employee headed to Afghanistan and beyond. I&#8217;ll have a full review online soon. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>We Were Once the American Dream</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/09/we-were-once-the-american-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/09/we-were-once-the-american-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 12:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minimum Wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rent-to-Own]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wemeantwell.com/blog/?p=9520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We were once the American Dream, and now we’re just what happened to it. That’s the phrase that informs my research into a new book I’m working on, The People on the Bus: A Story of the #99Percent. I’m trying to trace the decline of the American Middle Class over the last forty years, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Benghazi Hearing: Quick Recap</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/08/todays-benghazi-hearing-quick-recap/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/08/todays-benghazi-hearing-quick-recap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wemeantwell.com/blog/?p=9887</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The State Department was beaten up pretty bad in today&#8217;s Benghazi hearing, with both Deputy Chief of Mission Greg Hicks (second in charge after the ambassador) and RSO (security guy) Ed Nordstrom from Libya contradicting earlier State Department remarks. Hicks in particular made it clear that there was absolutely nothing to justify Susan Rice&#8217;s September [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Benghazi: A Preview of Wednesday&#8217;s Hearing</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/07/more-benghazi-a-preview-of-wednesdays-hearing/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/07/more-benghazi-a-preview-of-wednesdays-hearing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embassy/State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wemeantwell.com/blog/?p=9837</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[See the Hearing live at 11:30 EST online House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa announced three witnesses will appear at a full committee hearing, “Benghazi: Exposing Failure and Recognizing Courage,” on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The witnesses are Mark Thompson, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Counterterrorism, Gregory Hicks, former Deputy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Be an Afghanistan Expert</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/06/how-to-be-an-afghanistan-expert/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/06/how-to-be-an-afghanistan-expert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 13:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom always forwards me the worst email crap, multi-megabyte Powerpoints of cats, or babies doing something odd, or homilies to life last century and the like. I usually thus delete most FWD&#8217;ed messages, but this one caught my eye. It&#8217;s making its way around the world so you might have already deleted it. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks to Penn State!</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/04/thanks-to-penn-state-2/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/04/thanks-to-penn-state-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 13:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embassy/State]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My thanks to the students and faculty of Penn State (especially Professor Dennis Jett) for hosting me for the second time in two years to speak about Iraq and my experiences at war with the Department of State. The questions and discussion this year were particularly focused, given the ongoing failure of reconstruction in Afghanistan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Get Social Media, Thai Edition</title>
		<link>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/02/i-dont-get-social-media-thai-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/05/02/i-dont-get-social-media-thai-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 12:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wemeantwell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wemeantwell.com/blog/?p=9799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So it was recently new year in Thailand, Songkran, celebrated by throwing water, face painting and dancing, all for the good. The Thais know how to throw a party. In the middle of all this, the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok spends sequester-free dollars to make this video, featuring starring idolizing the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, [...]]]></description>
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