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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Ann Coulter: Bush’s America is 100% Al Qaida Free
Post Date: 2009-05-02 12:24:06 by 2big2fail
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Ann Coulter: Bush’s America is 100% Al Qaida Free By Scott Thong Read this and weep, terrorists and their American Liberal Democrat love slaves! ———————- Excerpts from Ann Coulter: BUSH’S AMERICA: 100 PERCENT AL-QAIDA FREE SINCE 2001 It is unquestionable that Bush has made this country safe by keeping Islamic lunatics pinned down fighting our troops in Iraq. In the past few years, our brave troops have killed more than 20,000 al-Qaida and other Islamic militants in Iraq alone. That’s 20,000 terrorists who will never board a plane headed for JFK — or a landmark building, for that matter. Scott link: More Than 23,000 Terrorists ...
Torture ‘to Achieve a Political Objective’
Post Date: 2009-04-30 06:41:55 by Ada
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Since the publication last week of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s report into detainee abuse in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantánamo (PDF), much has been made of a footnote containing a comment made by Maj. Paul Burney, a psychiatrist with the Army’s 85th Medical Detachment’s Combat Stress Control Team, who, with two colleagues, was “hijacked” into providing an advisory role to the Joint Task Force at Guantánamo. In his testimony to the Senate Committee, Maj. Burney wrote that “a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al-Qaeda and Iraq and we were not successful in establishing a link between al-Qaeda and ...
Preparing for years in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-04-27 13:55:20 by christine
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The Pentagon’s senior military leaders are worried that the security situation in Afghanistan is stalemated or deteriorating, and now are preparing a far-reaching plan that would prepare the U.S. military for a war that could last three to five more years, officials said. The effort, which is being coordinated by the Joint Staff and is still in its early stages, is designed to create an experienced cadre of officers and senior enlisted soldiers, who would rotate between assignments in Afghanistan and at their home stations until the end of hostilities. By doing so, the Pentagon hopes to end a problem that has plagued the effort in Afghanistan—the lack of familiarity with local ...
Hell No: Draft Resistance and WRL (War Resister's League)
Post Date: 2009-04-25 22:57:38 by Deasy
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Hell No: Draft Resistance and WRL By Andy Mager At WRL's 1981 conference I met men who had refused to fight in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, scores of long-time women activists and five public nonregistrants who were my peers. During the course of the conference, I overcame my lingering fears and publicly declared my refusal to register for the draft in an interview near the end of the conference, a step that eventually landed me in federal prison. My journey to resistance had begun a year and a half earlier when I leaped into organizing work to oppose President Jimmy Carter's call to reinstitute draft registration. At a regional conference I attended an organizing workshop ...
UN torture envoy: US must prosecute Bush lawyers
Post Date: 2009-04-25 10:58:43 by Deasy
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VIENNA (AP) - A United Nations envoy says the U.S. is obligated to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who were behind the policies that allowed the use of harsh interrogation tactics. The world body's top anti-torture envoy says a U.N. convention requires the U.S. to pursue the case against officials who wrote memos that legitimize torture. He says that also includes CIA officials who said use of the tactics was legal. Manfred Nowak says such actions are called "complicity or participation" to torture as defined by the U.N. convention. The envoy adds that "every reasonable person" would know that waterboarding is torture. Nowak also says failure to investigate ...
U.S. Soldier Who Killed Herself--After Refusing to Take Part in Torture [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-04-25 08:40:57 by Ada
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U.S. Soldier Who Killed Herself--After Refusing to Take Part in Torture With each new revelation on U.S. torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gitmo, I am reminded of the chilling story of Alyssa Peterson. (April 23, 2009) -- With each new revelation on U.S. torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gitmo (and who, knows, probably elsewhere), I am reminded of the chilling story of Alyssa Peterson, who I have written about numerous times in the past three years but now with especially sad relevance. Appalled when ordered to take part in interrogations that, no doubt, involved what we would call torture, she refused, then killed herself a few days later, in September 2003. Of course, we now know from the ...
Veterans warn military solution won't end Afghan war
Post Date: 2009-04-24 20:18:15 by christine
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WASHINGTON, (AFP) – As fresh US troop reinforcements prepare to deploy to Afghanistan, veterans of the war decried past mistakes and warned the conflict cannot be solved by military means alone. "By the time I left Afghanistan, I felt that the US being there was a big mistake," retired US Marines corporal Rick Reyes told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. "I feel strongly that military intervention is not the answer." His comments echoed congressional testimony given by committee chairman John Kerry as a Vietnam War veteran in 1971, when he had famously asked: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" Now as then, veterans ...
Here's another weapon they will use against us
Post Date: 2009-04-23 14:27:45 by PSUSA
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The Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System (ARSS) during testing. The gun turret is on the right side of the craft. #story .gallery_container p.caption{display:none !important;} #story .gallery_container p.strut{color:#000;} The Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System (ARSS) during testing. The gun turret is on the right side of the craft. It could be the best Xbox 360 game ever, and a real kick in the ARSS. The U.S. Army is testing the Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System (ARSS) — a remote-controlled unmanned Vigilante robot helicopter equipped with a high-velocity sniper rifle. Its RND Edge semi-automatic gun is mounted on a self-stabilizing turret with built-in zoom camera, and fires 7 ...
Petraeus says trouble looms in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-04-22 13:27:06 by christine
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Gen. David Petraeus warned Tuesday of “tough months ahead” as the U.S. steps up its presence in Afghanistan to help stabilize the country. Petraeus, who heads U.S. Central Command, said the U.S. faces a reinvigorated Taliban insurgency and a rise in the trafficking of illegal narcotics, which he said helps fuel the insurgency. The top goal, he said, is helping prevent Afghanistan from sliding to its pre-9/11 days that allowed the country to become a safe haven for al-Qaida leaders plotting attacks. Getting there won’t be easy, he said. “We are going to make progress but it’s going to get worse before it gets better,” Petraeus said. ...
No license, but Blackwater still in Iraq
Post Date: 2009-04-21 14:00:08 by christine
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AP ENTERPRISE: Denied license, Blackwater to keep guarding US diplomats in Iraq through summer Armed guards from the security firm once known as Blackwater Worldwide are still protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq, even though the company has no license to operate there and has been told by the State Department its contracts will not be renewed two years after a lethal firefight that stirred outrage in Baghdad. Private security guards employed by the company, now known as Xe, are slated to continue ground operations in parts of Iraq long into the summer, far longer than had previously been acknowledged, government officials told The Associated Press. In addition, helicopters working for ...
How Dangerous Are the Taliban?
Post Date: 2009-04-20 06:26:47 by Ada
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Why Afghanistan Is the Wrong War JOHN MUELLER is Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University. Among his books are Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them and the forthcoming Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda. George W. Bush led the United States into war in Iraq on the grounds that Saddam Hussein might give his country’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction to terrorists. Now, Bush’s successor is perpetuating the war in Afghanistan with comparably dubious arguments about the danger posed by the Taliban and al Qaeda. President Barack Obama insists [1] that the ...
US Military Deaths In Iraq War At 4,274
Post Date: 2009-04-17 20:42:25 by Brian S
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(04-17) 17:18 PDT , (AP) -- As of Friday, April 17, 2009, at least 4,274 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,433 military personnel died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The AP count is three fewer than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Friday at 10 a.m. EDT. The British military has reported 179 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia and Georgia, three each; Estonia, Netherlands, ...
US Military Deaths In Afghanistan Region At 606
Post Date: 2009-04-17 20:39:25 by Brian S
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(04-17) 17:27 PDT , (AP) -- As of Friday, April 15, 2009, at least 606 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Wednesday at 10 a.m. EDT. Of those, the military reports 446 were killed by hostile action. Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 67 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, three were the result of hostile action. The military lists these other locations as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Jordan; Kenya; ...
The Outrage The Bombing of the King David Hotel
Post Date: 2009-04-17 14:46:43 by RickyJ
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On the morning of the 22nd of July 1946 a party of between 15 and 20 Jews, dressed as an Arabs entered the King David Hotel. The hotel housed the Secretariat of the Government of Palestine and Headquarters of the British Forces in Palestine and Transjordan. The terrorists were able to enter the building without arousing too much attention because part of the building was still being used as a hotel and other people frequented it. The Jews pretended to be an Arab working party. Having unloading from their lorry several milk churns filled with 225 kilogram's of explosive, they placed them in the basement of the wing of the hotel occupied by the Secretariat. The bomb goes offA British ...
Secret memos reveal CIA interrogation methods
Post Date: 2009-04-17 10:47:49 by X-15
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Washington - President Barack Obama on Thursday blew the lid on harsh CIA terror interrogations approved by ex-president George Bush, including the use of insects, simulated drowning, and sleep deprivation. But despite releasing four partially blacked-out memos detailing the tactics, Obama said operatives who carried out the interrogations would not be prosecuted, saying they acted on orders and were defending their country. The memos offered a stunning glimpse inside the covert interrogation programme introduced after the September 11 attacks in 2001, which critics say equated to torture, and Obama said undermined America's moral authority. The memos were written by Bush ...
The "Al Qaeda in Iraq is resurgent and we have to stay longer" meme begins.
Post Date: 2009-04-16 06:23:49 by Ada
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It started a couple weeks ago. Subtlety and imperceptibly, the usual daily violence that has never stopped in Iraq began to get more high profile coverage. Bombings began to move back to the front pages of the major newspapers. The normal violence of Iraq we have managed to ignore or that was played down during the "surge success" meme of the past election year is, golly gee, now getting more media attention. And the recent bombing that killed 5 American soldiers in Mosul has now kicked this new Beltway line on Iraq into high gear. Of course our media passed along dutifully and without challenge how the insurgent group in Iraq who did this bombing is "linked" to ...
Pentagon buys 22 Mi-17 helicopters from Russia for Iraq operations
Post Date: 2009-04-15 12:30:42 by PSUSA
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Photo: http://www.rusarmy.comPentagon buys 22 Mi-17 helicopters from Russia for Iraq operations 1 Apr, 12:46 PM Pentagon has signed a $80.6 million contract with Aeronautical Radio Incorporated to have 22 multi-purpose Mi-17ST helicopters purchased from Russia and equipped for US Army operations in Iraq, Itar Tass reported Tuesday. The helicopters will be manufactured at the Russian Ulan-Ude helicopter plant. They will then be transported to the Robins Air Base in Georgia, US, and have additional equipment fitted. Each machine is to cost approximately $2.4 million. The contract is to be fulfilled by September, 2010. The Mi-17/171 helicopter is capable of carrying troops and cargo for ...
Spain to indict the "Bush Six" over torture
Post Date: 2009-04-14 20:57:01 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Spanish prosecutors will seek criminal charges against Alberto Gonzales and five high-ranking Bush administration officials for sanctioning torture at Guantánamo. Spanish prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal investigation targeting former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five top associates over their role in the torture of five Spanish citizens held at Guantánamo, several reliable sources close to the investigation have told The Daily Beast. Their decision is expected to be announced on Tuesday before the Spanish central criminal court, the Audencia Nacional, in Madrid. But the decision is likely to raise concerns with the human-rights ...
9-Page Report Sent To Police: Federal agency warns of radicals on right - rise in "rightwing extremist activity and disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias
Post Date: 2009-04-14 08:17:09 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Federal agency warns of radicals on right The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity," saying the economic recession, the election of America's first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias. A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority. "It may include groups and individuals that are ...
Former Obama Advisor and CFR VP says 100,000+ Troops, 10+ more years needed in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-04-12 12:50:23 by Horse
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On the evening of March 19, 2009, Lawrence Korb spoke at the University of Pittsburgh (video at the end of this article). Korb was the Vice President of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) from 1998-2002. He was also the CFR’s director of National Security Studies during that same period. From 1985-1986 he was Vice President of Corporate Operations at Raytheon. He was Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1981-1985 during the Reagan Administration. He was an advisor to Barack Obama when Obama was campaigning for president. He currently is a Senior Fellow at American Progress and a Senior Advisor to the Center for Defense Information. Afghanistan: Deadly, Unaffordable Quagmire For ...
Stalin's Secret War Plans: Why Hitler Invaded the Soviet Union
Post Date: 2009-04-11 09:28:01 by Deasy
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Stalin's Secret War Plans Why Hitler Invaded the Soviet Union Article from The Barnes Review, Nov./Dec. 2000, pp. 27-33. The Barnes Review, 645 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Suite 100, Washington D.C. 20003, USA. By Richard Tedor, researcher in the European theater of World War II; published here with kind permission from TBR. This digitalized version © 2002 by The Scriptorium.eMail TBR - subscribe to TBR here Above is a German cemetery in Lithuania. From June to September of 1944, the Germans lost more than 1 million men - some to the Soviet army, some to the bitter cold. When the German armed forces invaded the USSR on June 22, 1941, Berlin described the offensive as preemptive in the ...
Gen. Odierno: We may miss Iraq deadline to halt al-Qaeda terror
Post Date: 2009-04-10 20:46:29 by christine
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The activities of al-Qaeda in two of Iraq’s most troubled cities could keep US combat troops engaged beyond the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, the top US commander in the country has warned. US troop numbers in Mosul and Baqubah, in the north of the country, could rise rather than fall over the next year if necessary, General Ray Odierno told The Times in his first interview with a British newspaper since taking over from General David Petraeus in September. He said that a joint assessment would be conducted with the Iraqi authorities in the coming weeks before a decision is made. Combat troops are due to leave all Iraqi cities by the end of June. Any delay would be a ...
U.S. military concedes Afghan civilian casualties
Post Date: 2009-04-10 11:35:51 by christine
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KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. military has conceded that troops under its command in Afghanistan killed a group of civilians in an operation this week, not militants as earlier reported. Investigations showed the late Wednesday night raid in an area of southeastern Khost had resulted in "killing two males, two females and wounding two females. There are reports of an infant also killed," the military said in a statement. "We deeply regret the tragic loss of life in this precious family," the late Thursday statement quoted Brigadier General Michael Ryan of the U.S. forces as saying. "Words alone cannot begin to express our regret and sympathy and we will ensure the ...
Iraq Battlefield Report: 3/26 - 4/6 (Things still stink in Iraq)
Post Date: 2009-04-09 20:07:03 by randge
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Iraq Battlefield Report: 3/26 - 4/6 Posted By David DeGraw on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 at 3:41 pm, Filed under Iraq War, War Watch . Follow post comments through the RSS 2.0 feed. Click here to comment, or trackback. In the week following Obama’s announcement of plans to shift operational priorities from Iraq to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and as the UK begins their pullout, Iraq is heating up once again. With the increasing hostility between two key US allies, the country is erupting into another round of mass violence. Here is our report from the frontlines of the Iraq occupation. We divided the coverage into the following categories – click on the headings below to jump to ...
Things are heating up in Iraq.
Post Date: 2009-04-09 13:40:37 by PSUSA
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April 8th & 9th, 2004 a bloody day for all in Iraq.The days preceding the 8th & 9th were not easy days. Things were heating up all over Iraq. On April 7th, I took a convoy through Baghdad. We had problems on Sword, blockage, IED's planted on the frontage road, ect... Then on April 8th & 9th the shit hit the fan. I made this post on April 9th. I know everyone has been watching the news, and I am sure there are some concerns. I still have not seen the news. I have been real busy to not be busy and have not had the chance to watch it. I hear what is going on up north and on my way down a few days ago, experienced a bit of it. I want to be truthful with everyone, but ...
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