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Fool Me Twice: Biden Says No Exit from Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-07-21 11:55:34 by christine
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There is one thing you can count on when it comes to establishment politicians. If their mouths are moving they are lying. Joe “Bite Me” Biden, second-in-command front man, is no exception. Not long ago Biden said a “drawdown” will mean “a lot of people moving out” by next July but now he has second thoughts. He told ABC’s “This Week” that the number of U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan “could be as few as a couple of thousand troops.” “Biden says it’s too early to judge whether the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan will succeed, but he says there is progress,” reports the Associated Press. “A record 103 NATO troops were ...
Report: Tab for 'War on terrorism' tops $1 trillion
Post Date: 2010-07-21 10:45:16 by abraxas
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Report: Tab for 'War on terrorism' tops $1 trillion By the CNN Wire Staff July 20, 2010 -- Updated 0832 GMT (1632 HKT) Washington (CNN) -- The United States has spent more than $1 trillion on wars since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, a recently released Congressional report says. Adjusting for inflation, the outlays for conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere around the world make the "war on terrorism" second only to World War II. The report "Cost of Major U.S. Wars" by the Congressional Research Service attempts to compare war costs over a more than 230-year period -- from the American Revolution to the current day -- noting the difficulties ...
US General says- "It's good fun to shoot people"
Post Date: 2010-07-20 19:02:12 by Lysander_Spooner
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This is Uh'Merica now, sick, psychopathic liers and murderers: The Last Days of this Evil Empire will soon be over.
Bin Laden Son Says U.S. May Agree to Let in Family
Post Date: 2010-07-20 15:01:42 by Jethro Tull
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Bin Laden Son Says U.S. May Agree to Let in Family By Henry Meyer July 19 (Bloomberg) -- A son of Osama bin Laden said about 20 members of his family stranded in Iran are seeking sanctuary in a third country and that the U.S. may agree to accept them. Omar bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader’s fourth son, said in an interview with Al Arabiya television that Iran is refusing to allow his relatives to go to Saudi Arabia. Shiite Muslim- dominated Iran is a regional rival of Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia. Al-Qaeda, a Sunni group, is hostile to Iran. “The Americans offered to help them out of Iran and even hinted at the possibility of receiving them in the U.S.,” he said in the ...
How Long Will the Public Tolerate Afghan War?
Post Date: 2010-07-20 08:28:39 by Eric Stratton
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How Long Will the Public Tolerate Afghan War? Byron York Gen. David Petraeus sailed through Senate confirmation so quickly in late June that few people noticed what he had to say about his new job as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee that American forces face many more battles against a determined and resilient Taliban. "My sense is that the tough fighting will continue," Petraeus said. "Indeed, it may get more intense in the next few months." But Petraeus said that as the fighting increases -- and American casualties rise -- the public should remember that "progress is possible" in Afghanistan. ...
Chicago cop who served in Afghanistan and Iraq has warning: Gang members are coming home with military training
Post Date: 2010-07-18 16:21:27 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Being in a street gang is now forbidden for members of the U.S. armed forces. But you might not guess that if you were to visit U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to soldiers who have recently served there. Jeffrey Stoleson, a Wisconsin corrections official, returned from Iraq in January with photos of gang graffiti on armored vehicles, latrines and buildings. Stoleson, a sergeant with a National Guard unit, was there for nine months to help the Army set up a prison facility outside Baghdad. "I saw Maniac Latin Disciples graffiti out of Chicago," Stoleson said, adding that there was a lot of graffiti for Texas and California gangs, as well as Mexican drug ...
us not able to protect Israel
Post Date: 2010-07-18 05:28:22 by Tatarewicz
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The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice says the US 'fully and firmly committed' to Israel. Washington has reiterated its carte blanche support for Israel saying it is 'fully and firmly committed' to Israel's security and that, it will continue to strengthen Israel's military while protecting it in the diplomatic arena. The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice made the statement during a ceremony held by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in New York on Thursday. Rice said Washington's commitment was "not negotiable, and it never will be," adding that the US will continue to ...
Mel Gibson is poised to quit the US after selling his mansion near New York.
Post Date: 2010-07-18 03:30:11 by Lysander_Spooner
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Mel Gibson is poised to quit the US after selling his mansion near New York. The disgraced Lethal Weapon star, who faces allegations of violence from his Russian former girlfriend, sold the mock Tudor property, known as Old Mill Farm, for £1637;million – £1037;million less than the asking price. Show of support: Mel Gibson's ex-wife Robyn is defending him against the domestic violence allegations Gibson has also put his Malibu home, Lavender Hill Farm, on the market for £1037;million, according to a property newsletter. Oksana Grigorieva claims Mel Gibson punched her He has told friends that he will move back to his native Australia with his ex-wife ...
Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy
Post Date: 2010-07-17 10:35:16 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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A president faced an economic depression that wouldn't go away, and a deeply disgruntled electorate. Not for the first or last time, the option of entering a war seemed politically appealing. How badly did FDR want a war and to what lengths was he willing to go to get one? The questions have vexed historians for many decades. Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy by Percy Greaves, Jr. (1906-1984), published for the first time in 2010, blows the top off a 70-year cover-up, reporting for the first time on long-suppressed interviews, documents, and corroborated evidence. The first section (the seeds) provides a detailed history of pre-war U.S.-Japan relations, thoroughly ...
FBI urges FCC to protect its ability to wiretap
Post Date: 2010-07-17 10:11:32 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The FBI told the Federal Communications Commission that no matter how the battle for authority over Internet access ends up, the agency should not change law enforcement’s ability to wiretap. In comments due Thursday to the FCC on a proposal to move broadband access services into the same category as phone services, the FBI said the FCC should not strip away law enforcement authorities' access to communications networks. “The rationale is as valid today as it was in 2006 – the need for clear authority to investigate and, if necessary, penalize non-compliant carriers and equipment manufacturers continues to exist, and the Commission’s expertise and experience ...
What do a corporate board of directors and a communist committee of commissars have in common?
Post Date: 2010-07-16 12:47:31 by bluegrass
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Remember how bad things were under Communism? Save for some effete snobs and True Party Believers, no one ever had anything nice to say about life under Communism. Corporatism is no different, as these astute scholars observed almost eighty years ago. Perhaps it’s time to kick Corporatism to the curb to bum spare change with its old buddy Communism? From "The Modern Corporation and Private Property" by Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means, 1932: …The only example of a similar subjection of the economic interests of the individual to those of a group which appears to the writers as being at all comparable, is that contained in the communist system. Though the communist ...
8 U.S. Troops Killed in Afghanistan Attacks
Post Date: 2010-07-14 09:19:40 by Jethro Tull
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A bloody day and night for American forces in southern Afghanistan has left eight U.S. troops dead, as Taliban militants step up their attacks in the face of an ongoing American-led offensive to capture the militants' hometown. Three U.S. troops and five civilians were killed Tuesday night in an attack on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, according to officials with the international military coalition. An Afghan official said a police officer also died in the attack. A statement from the international force said a car bomb slammed into the entrance of the compound. Insurgents then opened fire with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. International ...
America’s Longest War
Post Date: 2010-07-14 06:46:10 by Ada
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Goodbye fire-breathing Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and your Special Forces "Mafia," who were supposed to crush Afghan resistance to western occupation. McChrystal was fired after rude remarks he and his staff made about the White House were printed in the American magazine, Rolling Stone. President Barack Obama should have fired McChrystal when the loose-lipped general went public with demands that 40,000 more troops be sent to Afghanistan McChrystal was the second US commander in a row in Afghanistan to be fired, an ominous sign that the war was going very badly. He will now likely enter the Republican ranks as a martyr and become a Fox TV critic of Barack Obama. A more cerebral ...
Giant unmanned airships to patrol Afghanistan skies for up to three weeks at a time
Post Date: 2010-07-13 11:35:02 by christine
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Giant unmanned airships that can fly for up to three weeks at a time could soon be providing cover for British soldiers in Afghanistan. The LEMV (long endurance multi intelligence vehicle) is being developed by a team of British and American engineers and will give troops on the ground valuable surveillance information. The helium-filled drone will, when it takes to the skies sometime next summer, become the world’s longest endurance UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle). Packed with reconnaissance systems, the LEMV will be able to operate autonomously at altitudes of around 22000 feet for 21 days at a time, and travelling at speeds of up to 80 knots Alan Metzger, director for airship ...
The Dark Legacy of Gen. McChrystal
Post Date: 2010-07-13 06:24:37 by Ada
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Gen. Stanley McChrystal might have left town through the back door with his four stars barely intact, his 35-year career in the Army humiliatingly cut short by a lack of judgment with a counterculture magazine. But in reality, he got off easy. As a four-star popular with his peers, McChrystal will have professional options most retirees only dream about. In no time, he could be brought on as a highly paid consultant or “mentor” with the Army, and at the same time, as a board member at Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, or any of the other megalodon defense contractors in town. No doubt he will be lionized, particularly by partisans who already think he was duped by Rolling Stone and ...
‘Til the Fat General Sings
Post Date: 2010-07-13 06:00:05 by Ada
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President Obama’s troop withdrawal deadlines continue to vanish like a blind dowager’s silverware. At his June 15 testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, “King David” Petraeus fainted like Blanche DuBois when inquisitors from both sides of the aisle tried to wedge him into saying that he thought President Obama’s July 2011 withdrawal date for Afghanistan was a moronic idea even though he fully supported it. Petraeus didn’t take long to redeploy from his endorsement of Obama’s policy. At the June 29 confirmation circus that made him the new top Banana in the Bananastans*, Petraeus and his allies on the committee returned with a new script ...
WMD claims were lies says former envoy
Post Date: 2010-07-12 11:40:27 by tom007
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WMD claims were lies says former envoy By Sam Marsden, Press Association Monday, 12 July 2010 mmes posed a "substantial threat" before launching the 2003 invasion that overthrew Saddam Hussein, the inquiry into the war heard today. Former UK diplomat Carne Ross claimed that the Government "intentionally and substantially" exaggerated its assessment of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in public documents. Related articles * More UK News * Search the news archive for more stories Mr Ross, who was First Secretary responsible for the Middle East at the UK's mission to the United Nations from 1997 to 2002, alleged that nuanced intelligence was ...
June 13, 2010 Baghdad bank siege
Post Date: 2010-07-12 11:25:12 by tom007
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June 13, 2010 Baghdad bank siege Baghdad's Central Bank came under attack today, turning the capital's historic and once-lovely Rasheed Street into a cordoned-off battleground where a gunfight raged for hours between security forces and the assailants. Plumes of thick black smoke rose from the scene of the standoff. People died. People were wounded. Bombs exploded. Terrified bank workers ran for cover. If that account lacks detail, it's not because we didn't try to report out this story. Facts are hard to come by during such a chaotic, dangerous event, but the conflicting versions offered by Iraqi security officials made this especially difficult to report. For starters, ...
Booly update of US wars for Israel
Post Date: 2010-07-11 07:12:13 by Tatarewicz
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Bruce Riedel is Obama's chief adviser on the war in Afghanistan and the father of the ill-advised "surge", which calls for tens of thousands more U.S. troops to be sent to the failing campaign. Riedel is employed in a Mossad-funded think tank run by an Israeli friend of Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres. Is this the "change" Americans really wanted? Bruce O. Riedel headed the White House Afghan war strategy team that advised President Obama to send 50,000 more U.S. troops in early 2009. With the chaos and bloodshed in Afghanistan increasing every month, Riedel is often interviewed these days- but never identified as a hired gun of the Israeli operative Haim (Chaim) Saban, ...
U.S. Tomahawk Missiles Deployed Near China Send Message
Post Date: 2010-07-09 18:33:44 by christine
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If China's satellites and spies were working properly, there would have been a flood of unsettling intelligence flowing into the Beijing headquarters of the Chinese navy last week. A new class of U.S. superweapon had suddenly surfaced nearby. It was an Ohio-class submarine, which for decades carried only nuclear missiles targeted against the Soviet Union, and then Russia. But this one was different: for nearly three years, the U.S. Navy has been dispatching modified "boomers" to who knows where (they do travel underwater, after all). Four of the 18 ballistic-missile subs no longer carry nuclear-tipped Trident missiles. Instead, they hold up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles ...
Afghanistan a war of choice
Post Date: 2010-07-09 08:13:09 by Tatarewicz
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By Ian Welsh Saturday Jul 03, 2010 4:30pm Michael Steele's comments on Afghanistan remind me of my favorite definition of a gaffe: "saying the truth in the worst way possible." To wit, Steele said that Afghanistan is a war of Obama's choosing, and that everyone who's occupied Afghanistan has come to grief over it. Now one can quibble a bit over the details of who came to grief and who didn't, but basically he's right. Afghanistan went badly for the Russians and the British, most recently. There's a reason Afghanistan is called the "graveyard of Empires" and if the US isn't careful it'll be the graveyard of the US empire. Likewise, yes, ...
The crux of our endless War on Terror
Post Date: 2010-07-08 10:02:25 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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As I wrote last week, the Obama administration finally purported to defend its presidential assassination program aimed at American citizens, when Obama's Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Michael Leiter, offered patently misleading claims to justify it. Yesterday, Newsweek's Michael Isikoff posed several good questions to Leiter about this program and the "War on Terror" generally -- several of which are themes raised often here -- and Leiter's responses compellingly illustrate the utter illogic and counter-productive nature of our Terrorism and war policies. First, Isikoff noted that CIA Director Leon Panetta said that there are at most 100 Al Qaeda ...
The Case for War: The Iron Mountain Report
Post Date: 2010-07-07 05:53:02 by Stephen Lendman
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The Case for War: The Iron Mountain Report - by Stephen Lendman In his 1966 book, "How the World Really Works," Alan B. Jones included a chapter on the "Report from Iron Mountain: On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace," later published in 1967 by The Dial Press. It became a bestseller, then disappeared. Now few copies are available, but when circulating in the 1960s, it was reported that concerned Johnson administration officials ordered global US embassies to downplay it, saying it had nothing to do with policy. Later accounts doubted the material's authenticity, suggesting it was a hoax. True or false, its findings are reviewed below because they accurately ...
Five U.S. troops and one British service member killed in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-07-06 11:15:35 by Jethro Tull
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• INTERNATIONAL NEWS Five U.S. troops and one British service member killed in AfghanistanJuly 06, 2010 01:50 EDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Roadside bombs in Afghanistan have killed five U.S. service members in different parts of the country. NATO says two died in the west, two in the south and one in the east. And Britain's Defense Ministry says a British soldier was killed in a blast during a vehicle patrol in southern Helmand province. Their deaths brought to 14 the number of U.S. and other international troops killed so far this month. A tally by The Associated Press shows June was the deadliest month of the war for U.S. and international forces at 103 killed, including 60 ...
'Surge'' smoke follows Petraeus to Afpak
Post Date: 2010-07-05 11:27:29 by Ada
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Confirmed and reconfirmed by United States President Barack Obama, the US Senate and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and duly hailed as the new armored Messiah by US mainstream media, "tightly disciplined" political fox and former US Central Command chief General David Petraeus is about to land in Kabul. He will either hit the road to his 2012 Republican presidential nomination, or witness another disaster in a US$7 billion a month (and counting) quagmire. The myth of Petraeus' "successful surge" in Iraq could not but linger on. The Pentagon never managed not to profit by selling a public relations operation to a gullible American public. Petraeus ...
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