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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Family of U.S. soldier in dark about 'non-hostile' death
Post Date: 2008-09-19 00:21:34 by Ferret Mike
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Darryl Mathis waits in his Pensacola, Florida, home for the body of his 24-year-old son to return home from Iraq. Mathis, a military veteran himself, was seething with anger Thursday as he spoke about the death of Army Staff Sgt. Darris J. Dawson. Dawson, and Sgt. Wesley Durbin, 26, are said to have been shot and killed by another U.S. soldier on Sunday at a base south of Baghdad. Darryl and his wife, Maxine (Dawson's stepmother), say the military has told them nothing about the incident: no details on his death, no information at all. His voice shakes as he says he believes that the military has let him down. "I'm very disappointed -- very," he ...
Hero Marine Won't Get Medal of Honor
Post Date: 2008-09-18 18:04:32 by freepatriot32
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SAN DIEGO (Sept. 18) - A Marine sergeant singled out by President Bush for throwing his body on a grenade to save his comrades in Iraq will receive the prestigious Navy Cross rather than the nation's highest military award, military officials said.
The family of Sgt. Rafael Peralta, who was posthumously nominated for the nation's highest military honor, told the North County Times of Escondido, Calif., they were disappointed he was not receiving the Medal of Honor.
I don't understand why if the president has been talking about him," his mother, Rosa Peralta, told the newspaper, which was the first to report the bestowing of the Navy Cross.
Rosa Peralta said she was informed during ...
US soldier gets 7-month sentence in Iraq killings
Post Date: 2008-09-18 11:08:48 by richard9151
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YessirreeBob, this will show everyone that the US is serious about protecting those it wishes to kill. By GEORGE FREY, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 26 minutes ago VILSECK, Germany - A U.S. soldier pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder and was sentenced to seven months in prison Thursday in the deaths of four Iraqis, saying he stood guard from a machine-gun turret while the bound and blindfolded prisoners were shot. The relatively lenient sentence for Spc. Belmor Ramos was part of a deal that will see him testify against the others accused in the killings last year. The four Iraqi men were killed and dumped in a Baghdad canal in April 2007 — allegedly in retribution for ...
Why Obama is Wrong
Post Date: 2008-09-18 05:53:34 by Ada
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A few weeks ago I wrote a column explaining why Senator John McCain is wrong on Iraq. In contrast, Senator Barack Obama is largely right on Iraq. Whether he would follow through on his plan for withdrawing U.S. troops is another question. The Democratic foreign policy establishment is no less Wilsonian than its Republican counterpart, and once it has used antiwar voters to gain power it will want to show them the door as soon as it dares. But if Obama is right on Iraq, he is wrong on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. His prescriptions for each are so close to the policies of the Bush administration that if McCain is McBush, Obama appears to be O'Bush. It seems many voters' desire to ...
After vows to respect sovereignty, U.S. strikes in Pakistan
Post Date: 2008-09-17 22:11:46 by richard9151
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By Saeed Shah, McClatchy Newspapers Wed Sep 17, 5:12 PM ET ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A U.S. missile strike Wednesday in Pakistan further inflamed relations between the two anti-terrorism allies, just hours after the American military chief vowed to "respect Pakistan's sovereignty." The strike against suspected militants in Pakistan's tribal area, which runs along the Afghan border, is thought to be the sixth such attack this month. It came as Washington is demanding that Islamabad do more to prevent Taliban and al Qaida extremists from using its territory. Pakistani leaders have condemned the U.S. military interventions, which include the first documented American ...
Military Industrial Complex 2.0
Post Date: 2008-09-17 22:00:16 by richard9151
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Cubicle Mercenaries, Subcontracting Warriors, and Other Phenomena of a Privatizing Pentagon By Frida Berrigan 17/09/08 "MEOL" -- - Seven years into George W. Bush's Global War on Terror, the Pentagon is embroiled in two big wars, a potentially explosive war of words with Tehran, and numerous smaller conflicts – and it is leaning ever more heavily on private military contractors to get by. Once upon a time, soldiers did more than pick up a gun. They picked up trash. They cut hair and delivered mail. They fixed airplanes and inflated truck tires. Not anymore. All of those tasks are now the responsibility of private military corporations. In the service of the Pentagon, ...
Bush Could Still Attack Iran
Post Date: 2008-09-17 21:52:06 by richard9151
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Bush Could Still Attack Iran By The Guardian 17/09/08 "The Guardian" -- - Despite the main finding in the latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency that it "has been able to continue to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran", the western media has focused on the issue of Tehran's lack of transparency over the IAEA investigation into recent intelligence allegations (Report, September 12). These involve missile re-entry vehicle projects and have been rejected by the Iranians, who have not even been permitted to see the documents upon which the allegations are founded. This week the US Congress is debating two non-binding ...
Has the U.S. Invasion of Pakistan Begun?
Post Date: 2008-09-17 21:43:31 by richard9151
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17/09/08 ---- "Tomgram" --- As Andrew Bacevich tells us in the latest issue of the Atlantic, there's now a vigorous debate going on in the military about the nature of the "next" American wars and how to prepare for them. However, while military officers argue, that "next war" may already be creeping up on us. Having, with much hoopla, launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, each disastrous in its own way, the Bush administration in its waning months seems intent on a slo-mo launching of a third war in the border regions of Pakistan. Almost every day now news trickles out of intensified American strikes -- by Hellfire-missile armed Predator drones, or even ...
6 Killed in Suspected U.S. Missile Strike in Pakistan
Post Date: 2008-09-17 14:22:12 by Jethro Tull
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A U.S. missile strike killed at least six people Wednesday, hours after the top U.S. military officer told Pakistani officials that America respects Pakistan's sovereignty amid an uproar over American military operations in Pakistan's northwest. Two Pakistani intelligence officials told The Associated Press that several missiles hit a compound in the South Waziristan tribal region early Wednesday evening. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak openly to the media. The officials said the target was a base for Taliban militants and Hezb-i-Islami, another group fighting U.S. and government troops in ...
Suspected US missile strike kills 6 in Pakistan
Post Date: 2008-09-17 13:05:47 by angle
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least six people Wednesday, hours after the top U.S. military officer told Pakistani leaders that America respected Pakistan's sovereignty amid a furor over American strikes into Pakistan's northwest. Two Pakistani intelligence officials told The Associated Press that several missiles hit a compound in the South Waziristan tribal region early Wednesday evening. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak openly to the media. Click for Full Text!
CBS news draft lottery nov 1969
Post Date: 2008-09-16 23:10:48 by buckeye
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Poster Comment:Think it won't happen to you? Think again. And about the Vietnam war: what good did it do? What did it accomplish? Over 58,000 American dead, mostly the poor.
Barack Obama promises continuation of Bush administration militarism that destabilizes the U.S. economy - U.S. Democratic Nominee's Rhetoric of Change amounts to Mass-Deception and Mass Manipulation [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-09-16 20:00:49 by nikki
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U.S. Democratic Nominee's Rhetoric of Change amounts to Mass-Deception and Mass Manipulation The U.S. and its allies are dropping record numbers of bombs on Afghanistan. This is not news. In the first half of this year, 1,853 bombs were dropped: more than all the bombs of 2006 and most of 2007. "The most frequently used bombs," the Air Force Times reports, "are the 500lb and 2,000lb satellite-guided . . ." Without this one-sided onslaught, the resurgence of the Taliban, it is clear, might not have happened. Even Hamid Karzai, America's and Britain's puppet, has said so. The presence and the aggression of foreigners have all but united a resistance that ...
Pakistan orders troops to open fire if US raids
Post Date: 2008-09-16 12:09:32 by Jethro Tull
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Pakistan orders troops to open fire if US raids By STEPHEN GRAHAM – 2 hours ago ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's military has ordered its forces to open fire if U.S. troops launch another air or ground raid across the Afghan border, an army spokesman said Tuesday. The orders, which come in response to a highly unusual Sept. 3 ground attack by U.S. commandos, are certain to heighten tensions between Washington and a key ally against terrorism. Although the ground attack was rare, there have been repeated reports of U.S. drone aircraft striking militant targets, most recently on Sept. 12. Pakistani officials warn that stepped-up cross-border raids will accomplish little ...
US Set To Invade Pakistan?
Post Date: 2008-09-16 06:31:41 by Ada
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The inauguration this week of Pakistan’s new president, Asif Ali Zardari, widower of the slain Benazir Bhutto, should have brought some hope and direction to embattled Pakistan. It did not. A sense of weary déjà vu hung over the event. Zardari’s first major policy statement was a vow to continue waging the so-called "war on terror" in northwest Pakistan. Zardari’s choice of the Bush administration’s terminology was a clear message to Washington he intends to pursue the hated policies of disgraced former US-backed dictator, Pervez Musharraf. Pakistan will continue to dance to Washington’s tune. In fact, Zardari seems set to inherit the ills ...
Iraq: Violence is Down – but not Because of America's 'Surge'
Post Date: 2008-09-15 18:27:23 by richard9151
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If fewer US troops and Iraqis are being killed, it is only because the Shia community and Iran now dominate By Patrick Cockburn 14/09/08 "The Independent" As he leaves Iraq this week, the outgoing US commander, General David Petraeus, is sounding far less optimistic than the Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, about the American situation in Iraq. General Petraeus says that it remains "fragile", recent security gains are "not irreversible" and "this is not the sort of struggle where you take a hill, plant the flag and go home to a victory parade... it's not a war with a simple slogan." Compare this with Sarah Palin's belief that ...
Pakistan Says U.S. Copters Repulsed
Post Date: 2008-09-15 17:48:31 by richard9151
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15/09/08 --- -ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Firing by Pakistani troops forced two U.S. military helicopters to turn back to Afghanistan after they crossed into Pakistani territory early on Monday, Pakistani security officials said. The incident took place near Angor Adda, a village in the tribal region of South Waziristan where U.S. commandos in helicopters raided a suspected al Qaeda and Taliban camp earlier this month. "The U.S. choppers came into Pakistan by just 100 to 150 meters at Angor Adda. Even then our troops did not spare them, opened fire on them and they turned away," said one security official. The U.S. and Pakistani military both denied that account, but Angor Adda ...
What's with These Stupid War Pundits Telling U.S. Allies to Commit National Suicide?
Post Date: 2008-09-15 14:05:34 by Split
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I'd hate to be Georgia right now. So many American pundits have plans for the Georgians, brilliant schemes designed to get Georgia into a big war with the Russians. "Here's what you oughta do." It's like listening in on bar talk -- some drunk trying to talk a 98-pound weakling into a rematch with the hulking thug who just put him on the floor. Funny thing, they never want to prove their theory themselves. The backseat generals started early. On August 16, a week after the fighting between Russian and Georgian troops started, the neocon magazine Weekly Standard featured a chirpy, upbeat article listing all the hardware we could ship to the Georgians to help them fight a ...
War Hero or War Criminal?
Post Date: 2008-09-15 10:11:42 by bush_is_a_moonie
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"The date was Oct. 26, 1967. I was on my 23rd mission, flying right over the heart of Hanoi in a dive at about 4,500 feet, when a Russian missile the size of a telephone pole came up – the sky was full of them – and blew the right wing off my Skyhawk dive bomber." ~ John McCain Over and over again it has been said or inferred that one of the reasons John McCain deserves to be president is because he is a war hero. Even Barack Obama has called McCain "a genuine American hero." Make that an American war criminal. John McCain graduated (near the bottom of his class) from the Annapolis Naval Academy in 1958. After flight training in my city of residence, ...
So, the President May Kill Anybody He Pleases, Right?
Post Date: 2008-09-15 06:08:32 by Ada
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Among the many cock-and-bull stories set afoot by the Bush administration during the lead-up to its attack on Iraq was the one about the now-infamous drones of death. Later, it became sufficiently clear that this alleged threat had no more substance than the others the administration and the lapdog mainstream media had served up to a credulous public. Although the ludicrously primitive Iraqi drones had no capacity whatsoever to harm the American public, the lethality of U.S. drones is another matter. Predator drones equipped with Hellfire missiles now provide the U.S. government with a means of flying over territory that U.S. ground troops dare not penetrate, observing activities on the ...
Seven Years of Incomprehension
Post Date: 2008-09-15 05:27:19 by Ada
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It looks as if 9/11 is on the verge of becoming a national holiday. It is curious that this should be so, on a number of levels. The cable news channels, whose attention span is already amazingly limited, couldn't get enough of remembrance, with Fox replaying its entire 2001 coverage and the others featuring lengthy excerpts. The two presidential candidates set aside the contest for the moment, deciding not to run campaign commercials on this apparently sacred day, then descending almost hand-in-hand, if visibly slightly uncomfortable and perhaps even a bit prickly toward one another, into the hole that is what still remains of the Twin Towers (is this the same country that built the ...
U.S. plans $7 billion missile-defense sale to UAE
Post Date: 2008-09-15 00:42:05 by Split
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration is planning to sell the United Arab Emirates an advanced U.S. missile defense system valued at up to $7 billion that could be used to defend against Iran, people who have attended briefings on the matter said Monday. The Pentagon is set to notify Congress of the proposed sale, which would be the first of the so-called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, several people familiar with the matter said. THAAD is built by built by Lockheed Martin Corp. Raytheon Co supplies missile interceptors used with the system. Once notified of such a proposed arms sale by the administration, Congress has 30 days to review it but almost never ...
Steve Quayle: RUSSIA WARNS WORLD WAR 3 IF AMERICA AND ISRAEL ATTACKS IRAN (YouTube)
Post Date: 2008-09-14 23:44:41 by christine
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Obama calls for US military mobilization [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-09-14 09:46:17 by christine
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In remarks that clearly pointed toward the restoration of the military draft under an Obama administration, the Democratic candidate said Thursday night that his job as president would include demanding that the American people recognize an “obligation” for military service. “If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some,” Senator Barack Obama declared. Obama’s comments came as he and his Republican opponent, Senator John McCain, took part in a forum on national service at Columbia University in New York City. Earlier in the day, both candidates joined in a memorial service at the site of the World Trade Center, commemorating the victims of the 9/11 ...
Time Machine: Bomb, Bomb Ir4an
Post Date: 2008-09-13 08:42:07 by Zoroaster
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Time Machine: Bomb-Bomb Iran by S.J. Masty by S.J. Masty DIGG THIS “Long before President McCain was elected,” the three-star general said, “he hinted at attacking Iran in songs and jokes. After the assault, he made his famous address. But we still need citizens to more fully appreciate the victorious details of Operation Bodacious Mayhem.” The most senior officers in each of the armed services nodded, while the young officer inhaled deeply, then began his briefing. “Very well, sir. As we all know, soon after his inauguration, President McCain ordered the attack on Iran on Jan. 29, 2009. “Carried out with support from Israel and Britain, it hit at least ...
US a Step Closer to Iran Blockade
Post Date: 2008-09-13 00:04:14 by richard9151
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Our men . . . have killed to exterminate men, women, children, prisoners and captives, active insurgents and suspected people from lads of 10 up... Our soldiers have pumped salt water into men to "make them talk," and have taken prisoners people who held up their hands and peacefully surrendered, and an hour later. .. stood them on a bridge and shot them down one by one, to drop into the water below and float down, as examples to those who found their bullet-loaded corpses.": Philadelphia Ledger newspaper in 1901, from its Manila [Philippines] correspondent during the US war with Spain for the control of the Philippines = "The only place you and I disagree . . . is with ...
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