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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Barack Obama purges Web site critique of surge in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-07-16 09:53:04 by angle
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WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's campaign scrubbed his presidential Web site over the weekend to remove criticism of the U.S. troop "surge" in Iraq, the Daily News has learned. The presumed Democratic nominee replaced his Iraq issue Web page, which had described the surge as a "problem" that had barely reduced violence. "The surge is not working," Obama's old plan stated, citing a lack of Iraqi political cooperation but crediting Sunni sheiks - not U.S. military muscle - for quelling violence in Anbar Province. The News reported Sunday that insurgent attacks have fallen to the fewest since March 2004. Obama's campaign posted a new Iraq plan Sunday ...
Obama Iraq Speech: US Strategy Is Unsound
Post Date: 2008-07-15 09:48:01 by christine
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WASHINGTON — Contending that the U.S. is not pursuing a sound strategy for keeping Americans safe, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Tuesday that fighting al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan would be his top priority after ending the war in Iraq. "This is a war that we have to win," Obama said in remarks prepared for delivery at the International Trade Center in Washington. In a major speech on Iran and national security, Obama said he would also secure nuclear weapons and materials from terrorists and rogue nations, achieve "true energy security," and rebuild the nation's international alliances. The speech sets the stage for ...
Uri Avnery: I'm Predicting There Will Be No Attack On Iran This Year
Post Date: 2008-07-14 20:17:05 by christine
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IF YOU want to understand the policy of a country, look at the map - as Napoleon recommended. Anyone who wants to guess whether Israel and/or the United States are going to attack Iran should look at the map of the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Through this narrow waterway, only 34 km wide, pass the ships that carry between a fifth and a third of the world's oil, including that from Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain. * * * MOST OF the commentators who talk about the inevitable American and Israeli attack on Iran do not take account of this map. There is talk about a "sterile", a "surgical" air strike. The mighty air ...
Obama would send 2 more brigades to Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-07-14 12:33:53 by Jethro Tull
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Obama would send 2 more brigades to Afghanistan By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 11 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama said Monday that as president he would send at least two more combat brigades to Afghanistan, where U.S. soldiers face rising violence and endured their deadliest attack in three years on Sunday. The proposed force increase is part of Obama's plan to pull combat troops out of Iraq and focus on the growing threat from a resurgent al-Qaida in Afghanistan. -Snip
Poster Comment:But, but, but so many OPILES didn't buy into the entire al-Qaida thingie...what happened?
The Wedding Crashers
Post Date: 2008-07-14 06:55:46 by Ada
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A Short Till-Death-Do-Us-Part History of Bush's Wars It was a tribal affair. Against a picture-perfect sunset, before a beige-colored cross and an altar made of the very Texas limestone that was also used to build her family's "ranch," veil-less in an Oscar de la Renta gown, the 26-year-old bride said her vows. More than 200 members of her extended family and friends were on hand, as well as the 14 women in her "house party," who were dressed "in seven different styles of knee-length dresses in seven different colors that match[ed] the palette of… wildflowers – blues, greens, lavenders and pinky reds." Afterwards, in a white tent set in a ...
Amber Alert! Get ready for war
Post Date: 2008-07-14 04:22:16 by Zoroaster
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July 14, 2008 Amber Alert! Get ready for war by Justin Raimondo In spite of reassurances from the Washington talking heads and policy wonks that the U.S. is not about to launch an attack on Iran, or countenance an Israeli strike, the Sunday Times has the real scoop: "President George W. Bush has told the Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran break down, according to a senior Pentagon official. "Despite the opposition of his own generals and widespread skepticism that America is ready to risk the military, political, and economic consequences of an airborne strike on Iran, the ...
How Britain Wages War
Post Date: 2008-07-13 19:10:12 by Ada
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The military has created a wall of silence around its frequent resort to barbaric practices, including torture, and goes out of its way to avoid legal scrutiny. Five photographs together break a silence. The first is of a former Gurkha regimental sergeant major, Tul Bahadur Pun, aged 87. He sits in a wheelchair outside 10 Downing Street. He holds a board full of medals, including the Victoria Cross, the highest award for bravery, which he won serving in the British army. He has been refused entry to Britain and treatment for a serious heart ailment by the National Health Service: outrages rescinded only after a public campaign. On 25 June, he came to Downing Street to hand his Victoria ...
Officials: 9 US troops killed in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-07-13 14:41:12 by Jethro Tull
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Officials: 9 US troops killed in Afghanistan By JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press Writer 11 minutes ago KABUL, Afghanistan - A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 Sunday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years, officials said. The attack on the U.S. outpost came the same day a suicide bomber targeting a police patrol killed 24 people, while U.S. coalition and Afghan soldiers killed 40 militants elsewhere in the south. The militant assault on the American troops began around 4:30 a.m. in a dangerous region close to the Pakistan border and lasted throughout the day. Militants fired ...
US considers additional troop pullouts from Iraq
Post Date: 2008-07-13 10:15:13 by christine
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The administration of President George W. is considering withdrawal of additional combat forces from Iraq beginning in September, The New York Times reported on its website. Citing unnamed administration and military officials, the newspaper said Saturday that one factor in the consideration is the pressing need for additional American troops in Afghanistan, where the Taliban and other fighters have intensified their insurgency. More American and allied troops died in Afghanistan than in Iraq in May and June, a trend that has continued this month. Although no decision has been made, one or as many as three of the 15 combat brigades now in Iraq could be withdrawn or at least scheduled for ...
President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran
Post Date: 2008-07-12 19:42:22 by DeaconBenjamin
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President George W Bush has told the Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran break down, according to a senior Pentagon official. Despite the opposition of his own generals and widespread scepticism that America is ready to risk the military, political and economic consequences of an airborne strike on Iran, the president has given an “amber light” to an Israeli plan to attack Iran’s main nuclear sites with long-range bombing sorties, the official told The Sunday Times. “Amber means get on with your preparations, stand by for immediate attack and tell us when you’re ...
Recession: With War or Without It?
Post Date: 2008-07-12 15:16:40 by DeaconBenjamin
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The world's economy has been in growth mode at least since 1991. China has been in growth mode since 1979. The American economy had a sharp recession in 1991. Asia had a financial crisis in 1998. America had a very brief, very shallow recession in 2001. The Federal Reserve System pumped in money at an accelerating rate after mid-2000 through 2004, and did not go to tight money until the month Bernanke took over: February 2006. Inflation overcame the recession of 2001, and it overcame the crisis of 9/11, but it created the housing bubble and the commodity bubble. The housing bubble has popped. This is going to take the price of housing in the United States lower than it is today. I ...
IRAN MISSILE TEST BLUFF: OLD ROCKETS, BOGUS VIDEO
Post Date: 2008-07-11 19:27:40 by TwentyTwelve
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IRAN MISSILE TEST BLUFF: OLD ROCKETS, BOGUS VIDEO Fri Jul 11 2008 15:18:02 ET Many of Iran's claims related to missile tests during "Great Prophet III" war games -- appear to be smoke and mirrors! The missiles tested DID NOT not have 2,000-kilometer range, the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report on Saturday. Iran DID NOT launch a Shahab-3 missile, able to reach Israel. It was an older missile that was out of production, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE. And a video showing what appeared to be many missiles being fired -- is actually one missile, filmed from different angles! NYT's Bill Broad is planning to quote military insiders. Developing... Click for Full Text!
Israeli war minister Ehud Barak In Washington To Lobby For Iran Attack
Post Date: 2008-07-11 14:37:33 by TwentyTwelve
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Barak In Washington To Lobby For Iran Attack Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Friday, July 11, 2008 Israeli war minister Ehud Barak will visit Washington next week to meet with top U.S. government officials and President Bush in what some are suggesting will be the final planning session in anticipation of a military strike on Iran. Barak will hold talks for three days with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - as well as U.S. President George Bush. Barak’s visit will also precede a tour by Israeli military chief of staff Lieutenant-General ...
Senate confirms Petraeus as top Mideast commander
Post Date: 2008-07-10 16:06:25 by christine
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The US Senate on Thursday voted to confirm the promotion of General David Petraeus, currently the top US general in Iraq, to head all US operations in the Middle East, including the war in Afghanistan. Petraeus, the architect of the troop surge escalation strategy credited by the Bush administration with improving security in Iraq, will be promoted to run US Central Command. The vote was 95-2 in the 100-member Senate on the Petraeus nomination. The chamber also voted 96-1 to confirm Lieutenant General Raymond Ordierno to replace Petraeus as the senior US officer in Iraq. Petraeus's promotion puts him in charge of the US military's biggest challenges -- Iraq, an expanding military ...
OPEC chief warns of 'unlimited' oil prices if Iran is attacked
Post Date: 2008-07-10 12:39:57 by TwentyTwelve
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OPEC chief warns of 'unlimited' oil prices if Iran is attacked By James Kanter Published: July 10, 2008 VIENNA: The head of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries warned Thursday that oil prices would see an "unlimited" increase in the case of a military conflict involving Iran, because the group's members would be unable to make up the lost production. "We really cannot replace Iran's production - it's not feasible to replace it," Abdalla Salem El-Badri, the OPEC secretary general, said in an interview. Iran, the second-largest producing country in OPEC, after Saudi Arabia, produces about four million barrels of oil a day out of the ...
Rice says U.S. will defend allies from Iran
Post Date: 2008-07-10 06:08:12 by Disgusted
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TBILISI: Iran should have no doubt about the United States' commitment to defending its allies from possible attack, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday. Rice, on a visit to the ex-Soviet state of Georgia, was speaking a day after Iran test-fired missiles it said can hit Israel and U.S. bases in the Middle East. "We are also sending a message to Iran that we will defend American interests and ... the interests of our allies," she told a news conference after a meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. "We take very, very strongly our obligation to help our allies defend themselves and no one should be confused about that," she ...
Police: We exposed Israeli al-Qaida cell
Post Date: 2008-07-09 22:08:49 by Jethro Tull
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Two Israeli Beduin from the Negev town of Rahat were charged Wednesday with plotting terrorist attacks via the Internet with al-Qaida members overseas and marking out civilian and military sites as targets. Taher Abu Sakut (right) and Omar Abu Sakut. Pictures of the week The suspects were named by police as Taher Abu Sakut, 21, and Omar Abu Sakut, 22. They were arrested in late May and early June in a joint Israel Police-Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) operation. The indictment filed against them on Wednesday in the Beersheba District Court accuses them of membership in a terrorist organization, aiding the enemy during a time of war and transferring information to the enemy with ...
'Aggressive diplomacy' needed with Iran: Obama
Post Date: 2008-07-09 10:27:37 by christine
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Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama on Wednesday urged "aggressive diplomacy" as well as economic sanctions to get Iran to change its actions after Tehran's missile test. Iran earlier Wednesday test-fired a missile it said is capable of reaching Israel, angering the United States amid growing fears that the standoff over the contested Iranian nuclear programme could lead to military conflict. The Shahab-3 was among a broadside of nine missiles fired off simultaneously at 8:00 a.m. (0330 GMT) from an undisclosed location in the Iranian desert, state television pictures showed. "There's no doubt we're seeing rising tensions in the area. And ...
"Dead Inside"
Post Date: 2008-07-09 06:46:25 by wudidiz
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"Dead Inside"
Legitimizing Permanent Occupation of Iraq
Post Date: 2008-07-09 06:08:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Legitimizing Permanent Occupation of Iraq - by Stephen Lendman Washington is currently negotiating two accords with the al-Maliki government to take effect after expiration of the UN's military mandate on December 31. One agreement is for a long-term "strategic framework" to establish "cooperation in the political, economic, cultural and security fields." Or according to the administration - to defend Iraq's "sovereignty and integrity of its territories, waters, and airspace." The other is a so-called "status of forces agreement" (SOFA) to provide legitimacy for the US occupation beginning January 1, 2009. Following the 2003 invasion, the UN ...
Pentagon aims for less-deadly cluster bombs [unbelievable!]
Post Date: 2008-07-08 20:32:05 by scrapper2
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Faced with growing international pressure, the Pentagon is changing its policy on cluster bombs and plans to reduce the danger of unexploded munitions in the deadly explosives. The policy shift, which is outlined in a three-page memo signed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, would require that after 2018, more than 99 percent of the bomblets in a cluster bomb must detonate. Limiting the amount of live munitions left on the battlefield would lessen the danger to innocent civilians who have been killed or severely injured when they accidentally detonate the bombs. Also, by next June the Defense Department will begin to reduce its inventory of cluster bombs that do not meet the new safety ...
Bush's Blood-Orgy in Somalia: "They Are Slaughtering Somalis Like Goats"
Post Date: 2008-07-08 18:19:49 by Horse
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While George Bush was busy railing at Zimbabwe's President, Robert Mugabe at the G-8 summit in Toyako, Japan; his Ethiopian proxy-army in Somalia was grinding out more carnage on the streets of Mogadishu. More than 40 civilians have been killed in the last 48 hours. On Sunday, Osman Ali Ahmed, the head of the UN Development Program in Somalia, was shot gangland style as he left a mosque Mogadishu. He died before he reached the hospital with wounds to the head and chest. Ali Ahmed is just the latest of the peace-keepers who have been killed in the ongoing battle between Bush's Ethiopian occupiers and Somali guerrillas. "I care deeply about the people of Zimbabwe," Bush ...
US rejects Iraqi demand for troops' withdrawal timeline
Post Date: 2008-07-08 16:00:11 by christine
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The United States on Tuesday rejected a demand from Iraq for a specific date for pullout of US-led foreign troops from the country, saying any withdrawal will be based on conditions on the ground. "The US government and the government of Iraq are in agreement that we, the US government, we want to withdraw, we will withdraw. However, that decision will be conditions-based," State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos said. Iraq said on Tuesday it will reject any security pact with the United States unless it sets a date for the pullout of US-led troops. "We will not accept any memorandum of understanding if it does not give a specific date for a complete withdrawal of ...
The Iraq war movie: Military hopes to shape genre
Post Date: 2008-07-08 06:19:02 by Ada
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Burned by portrayals of Vietnam, the Pentagon focuses on a new era of filmmakers. 'It's important to tell the full story,' says Army Lt. Col. J. Todd Breasseale, who is deployed to Wilshire Boulevard. There's a war going on, and Army Lt. Col. J. Todd Breasseale has a mission. But it's far removed from the captured Iraqi palace where he was once stationed. He fights his war now from an office on Wilshire Boulevard lined with movie posters chronicling conflicts real and imagined, from "Patton" to "War of the Worlds." Breasseale's desk is piled high with scripts, each marked with his name and stamped "confidential." It's his job to ...
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