Weblog for Geauga Dems http://geaugadems.org/index.php?page=blog 2010-09-08T08:59:35+01:00 text/html 2010-08-31T19:53:40+01:00 http://geaugadems.org/ http://geaugadems.org/index.php?page=blog&full=4 <p>After $748 billion and seven years President Obama declared the combat phase of the Iraq war over, and said a new phase, one in which US troops take on an advisory role rather than a leading one, has begun. About 4,400 US&nbsp;soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians have text/html 2009-02-25T21:30:21+01:00 http://geaugadems.org/ http://geaugadems.org/index.php?page=blog&full=3 THE THREE BENEFITS U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown recently blew the whistle on the United States government's use of Chinese steel for construction projects along our border with Mexico. He and United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard called for enforcement of "Buy America" provisions in the stimulus legislation that President Barack