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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Iraq's foreign minister has a chat with Barack Obama.( Mr. Obama might not differ all that much from Mr. McCain)
Post Date: 2008-06-18 15:42:03 by Jethro Tull
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SEN. BARACK OBAMA told Iraq's foreign minister this week that he plans to visit the country between now and the presidential election. We think that's a good thing, not because Sen. John McCain has been prodding the candidate to do it but because it will give Mr. Obama an opportunity to refresh his badly outdated plan for Iraq. To do that, the Democrat needs to listen more to dedicated Iraqi leaders like Hoshyar Zebari, the foreign minister -- who, it seems, didn't hold back during their telephone conversation. -SnipThe foreign minister said "my message" to Mr. Obama "was very clear. . . . Really, we are making progress. I hope any actions you will take will not ...
Pentagon Wants 'Autonomous' War Robots
Post Date: 2008-06-17 01:13:55 by X-15
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Jun. 12--The next generation of military robots won't just be humanoids like the Terminator. The robots of the future will likely work in concert, like a swarm of ants. Others may creep like spiders or hover like hummingbirds, if the work at the University of Pennsylvania is an indication. Most of the more than 5,000 robotic devices now in Iraq are remote-controlled, sniffing out explosives or performing other jobs with constant human instructions. But in a shift with huge implications for warfare and diplomacy, the military wants robots that act on their own volition. It's a prospect that promises to save lives, but could also make wars more palatable and easier to start, some ...
A Line Not to be Crossed
Post Date: 2008-06-16 05:49:23 by Ada
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American-led war on terror cannot be allowed to spread into Pakistan's Pashtun tribal area Facebook Digg Del.icio.us Google Stumble Upon Furl Newsvine Reddit Technorati Blinklist Feed Me Yahoo Socializer Ma.gnolia Raw Sugar Simpy Squidoo Spurl Blink Bits Rojo Blogmarks Shadows Netvouz Scuttle Co.mments Bloglines Tailrank Sitejot + Help The killing of 11 Pakistani soldiers by U.S. air and artillery strikes last week shows just how quickly the American-led war in Afghanistan is spreading into neighbouring Pakistan. Pakistan's military branded the air attack "unprovoked and cowardly." There was outrage across Pakistan. However, the unstable government in Islamabad, which ...
U.S. Supreme Court backs Guantánamo prisoners' right to appeal
Post Date: 2008-06-12 11:02:40 by DeaconBenjamin
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WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have rights under the U.S. Constitution to challenge their detention in civilian courts. The justices handed the Bush administration its third setback at the high court since 2004 over its treatment of prisoners who are being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The vote was 5 to 4, with the court's liberal justices in the majority. Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said, "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times." It was not immediately clear whether this ...
Pakistan condemns "cowardly" U.S. attack; 11 dead
Post Date: 2008-06-12 01:34:37 by Critter
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan lodged a strong protest with the United States over what it called an unprovoked and cowardly air strike by U.S. forces in Afghanistan that killed 11 Pakistani soldiers at a border post. They died in the Mohmand region, opposite Afghanistan's Kunar province, late on Tuesday as U.S. coalition forces in Afghanistan battled militants attacking from Pakistan, a Pakistani security official said. The Pentagon defended U.S. forces, saying initial indications pointed to a "legitimate strike" carried out in self-defense after they came under attack. Frustration is growing among Western forces in Afghanistan over Pakistani efforts to negotiate pacts to ...
McCain Iraq Comments: Bringing Troops Home From Iraq "Not Too Important" (VIDEO)
Post Date: 2008-06-11 11:18:08 by christine
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Sen. John McCain appeared on the Today Show this morning and continued to promote his idea of a long occupation in Iraq. But whatever merits there may be for his message, his delivery is once again promising to get him into trouble. When asked if he knew when American troops could start to return home, McCain responded: "No, but that's not too important. What's important is the casualties in Iraq." Click for Full Text!
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BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions
Post Date: 2008-06-10 18:35:11 by Horse
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A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq. For the first time, the extent to which some private contractors have profited from the conflict and rebuilding has been researched by the BBC's Panorama using US and Iraqi government sources. A US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations. The order applies to 70 court cases against some of the top US companies. War profiteering While George Bush remains in the White House, it is unlikely the gagging orders will be lifted. To date, no major US contractor faces trial for fraud or mismanagement in Iraq. The president's Democrat ...
I Was Wrong About The War On Drugs -- It's A Failure (Bob Barr)
Post Date: 2008-06-10 11:17:24 by christine
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I'll admit it, just five years ago I was "Public Enemy Number 1" in the eyes of the Libertarian Party. In my 2002 congressional race for Georgia's Seventh District, the Libertarian Party ran scathing attack ads against my stand on Medical Marijuana. Today, I am their presidential nominee and will represent libertarians at the top of the ticket on November 4th. Huh? That's right, Bob Barr, formerly the War on Drugs loving, Wiccan mocking, Clinton impeaching Republican is the presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party. Now, you may be asking how this happened and my answer is simple: "The libertarians won." For more than three decades, the Libertarian ...
Fox News Propaganda: Iraq 2003=Iran 2007
Post Date: 2008-06-10 07:23:58 by Old Friend
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Some Call it 'Counterinsurgency'
Post Date: 2008-06-10 06:51:05 by Ada
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It sounds better than 'brutal military occupation' It is widely reported that the US military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, continuing on for over five years, have been "counterinsurgencies" (COIN) led in Iraq by the expert on COIN General David Petraeus. Petraeus has been highly praised for his COIN abilities and soon will be able to expand his influence to Afghanistan, the almost-seven-year quagmire. From the Washington Independent: "David Petraeus will go down in history as a great counterinsurgency theorist and practitioner," said retiring Army Lt. Col. John Nagl, one of the counterinsurgency experts who helped write FM (Field Manual) 3-24 on COIN. ...
Israel tries to play down minister's warning of attack on Iran
Post Date: 2008-06-09 11:39:11 by christine
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Israel yesterday attempted to play down a warning from a senior government minister that an attack on Iran was "unavoidable" if Tehran continued to develop nuclear weapons. The transportation minister, Shaul Mofaz, a key figure in Israel's dialogue with the US on Iran's nuclear programme, raised the prospect of a unilateral Israeli attack against Tehran on Friday, adding that international sanctions had been ineffective. The threat, which is at odds with Israel's support so far for an international campaign to curtail and, if necessary, confront Iran's uranium enrichment programme, contributed to frenzied buying in the financial markets, where oil prices soared to ...
Bush warns of pay cuts for troops
Post Date: 2008-06-09 11:09:11 by christine
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President Bush on Saturday pressed Congress to approve billions of dollars more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, warning that failure to quickly act could lead to mass layoffs at the Pentagon and an inability to pay the salaries of troops in combat. In his weekly radio address, Bush told Democrats that any bill cleared by Congress should not “exceed the reasonable funding levels” he requested for this fiscal year. The House is considering a Senate-passed bill that includes $165 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into the next presidency. The White House has demanded that Congress approve a bill strictly with war funding, but the Senate measure also includes a ...
Treaty tensions mount as Iraq tells the US it wants all troops back in barracks
Post Date: 2008-06-09 08:12:03 by Jethro Tull
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American troops in Iraq would be confined to their bases and private security guards subject to local law if Iraq gets its way in negotiations with the US over the future status of American forces. According to a senior Iraqi official, the negotiations between the two allies became so fraught recently that President Bush intervened personally to defuse the situation. On Thursday he telephoned Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, to assure him that Washington was not seeking to undermine Iraq’s sovereignty and that America would reconsider any contentious part of the agreement. The current United Nations mandate for US troops expires at the end of this year and Washington ...
Obama Capitulates – to the Israel lobby
Post Date: 2008-06-06 12:20:04 by PnbC
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Obama Capitulates – to the Israel lobby by Justin Raimondo Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's visit to the U.S. is part of a concerted effort, by the Israeli government and its American lobbyists, to convince U.S. lawmakers – and, most of all, President George W. Bush – that the time to attack Iran is now. The Israeli newspaper Yediot Achronot reports that Olmert will tell Bush "time is running out" on diplomacy and that he'd better launch an attack. In his speech to the AIPAC conference, Olmert's message was harsh and unrelenting: Iran, he ...
Iran and EFPs
Post Date: 2008-06-06 06:13:34 by Ada
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Chronology of a Lie In his Antiwar.com columns investigative journalist and historian Gareth Porter has been doing a masterful job of exposing Dick Cheney’s relentless campaign to vilify Iran, build a case for an attack, bomb the country and produce regime change before the administration’s term ends. The campaign as many have noted parallels in several ways the propaganda blitz that preceded the War in Iraq. Cheney and his neocons cabal seek to skew the reports of mainstream intelligence agencies to confirm their allegations (in this case, the existence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program as an immanent threat to Israel and the U.S., Iranian Quds Force training of Iraqi ...
Did Hillary say 'bring 'em on'?
Post Date: 2008-06-06 05:41:59 by Ada
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Clinton's failed campaign resembled Bush's strategy on the Iraq war. 'It's the economy, stupid," said James Carville, summing up Bill Clinton's 1992 win over George H.W. Bush. Bush started out with incumbent status and an impressive resume, but he never managed to wrap his mind around the fact of the recession. In the end, he lost to Clinton -- the candidate from nowhere. Sixteen years later, it's Clinton's wife who's found herself in the elder Bush's position. Hillary Rodham Clinton began the Democratic primary with a famous name, thousands of Democrats who owed their careers to her husband, an enviable war chest and scores of superdelegates in ...
Reid hints that Lieberman may be booted from committee chairmanship
Post Date: 2008-06-06 04:57:46 by Ferret Mike
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Sen. Joe Lieberman's recent antics on behalf of Republican John McCain's presidential campaign haven't helped his popularity in the Democratic caucus in recent days. First Democratic nominee Barack Obama gave the Connecticut Independent a stern talking-to on the Senate floor Wednesday -- after Lieberman slammed Obama's speech on Israel. Now Lieberman's position as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee may be in danger, according to the subscription-only Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call reports: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday left open the possibility that Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (Conn.) status as an ...
U.S. Senate panel accuses Bush of Iraq exaggerations
Post Date: 2008-06-05 22:05:15 by scrapper2
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A long-delayed Senate report endorsed by Democrats and some Republicans has concluded that President George W. Bush and his aides built the public case for war against Iraq by exaggerating available intelligence and by ignoring disagreements among spy agencies about Iraq's weapons programs and Saddam Hussein's links to Al Qaeda. The report was released Thursday after years of partisan squabbling, and it marks the close of five years of investigations by the Senate Intelligence Committee into the use, abuse and faulty assessments of intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. That some Bush administration claims about the Iraqi threat turned out to be false is ...
Nearly 20% Of Army In Afghanistan Is On Prozac
Post Date: 2008-06-05 18:29:17 by PSUSA
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Seven months after Sergeant Christopher LeJeune started scouting Baghdad's dangerous roads — acting as bait to lure insurgents into the open so his Army unit could kill them — he found himself growing increasingly despondent. "We'd been doing some heavy missions, and things were starting to bother me," LeJeune says. His unit had been protecting Iraqi police stations targeted by rocket-propelled grenades, hunting down mortars hidden in dark Baghdad basements and cleaning up its own messes. He recalls the order his unit got after a nighttime firefight to roll back out and collect the enemy dead. When LeJeune and his buddies arrived, they discovered that some of the ...
Indicted Saudi Gets $80 Million US Contract
Post Date: 2008-06-05 16:01:30 by swarthyguy
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The Financier Has Been Indicted For His Alleged Role in a Scandal Costing US Taxpayers $1.7 billion By GRETCHEN PETERS June 4, 2008 The US military has awarded an $80 million contract to a prominent Saudi financier who has been indicted by the US Justice Department. The contract to supply jet fuel to American bases in Afghanistan was awarded to the Attock Refinery Ltd, a Pakistani-based refinery owned by Gaith Pharaon. Pharaon is wanted in connection with his alleged role at the failed Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), and the CenTrust savings and loan scandal, which cost US tax payers $1.7 billion. (ABC News Photo Illustration)The Saudi businessman was also named in a 200 ...
Limited US attack on Iranian Revolutionary Guards bases in sight
Post Date: 2008-06-05 13:40:38 by swarthyguy
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Our Washington sources report that president George W. Bush is closer than ever before to ordering a limited missile-air bombardment of the IRGC-al Qods Brigade’s installations in Iran. It is planned to target training camps and the munitions factories pumping fighters, missiles and roadside bombs to the Iraqi insurgency, Lebanese Hizballah and Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza. Iran is geared up for counteraction. US intelligence estimates that Tehran’s counteraction will likewise be on a limited scale and therefore any US-Iranian military encounter will not be allowed to explode into a major confrontation. Because this US assault is not planned to extend to Iran’s ...
Will Obama Stand Up to the War Party? Don't Bet The Ranch On It
Post Date: 2008-06-05 09:42:43 by christine
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If you want to know what the future holds in store, just take a look at what John McCain said recently to the AIPAC conference: "Rather than sitting down unconditionally with the Iranian president or supreme leader in the hope that we can talk sense into them, we must create the real-world pressures that will peacefully but decisively change the path they are on. Essential to this strategy is the UN Security Council, which should impose progressively tougher political and economic sanctions. Should the Security Council continue to delay in this responsibility, the United States must lead like-minded countries in imposing multilateral sanctions outside the UN framework. I am proud to ...
Spooks Promise Terror Attack For New President
Post Date: 2008-06-05 07:02:09 by Kamala
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Spooks Promise Terror Attack For New President Both Clinton and Bush exploited bombings within first year of taking office, Obama or McCain likely to enjoy the same opportunity Paul Joseph Watson / Prison Planet | May 27, 2008 National intelligence spooks are all but promising that history will be repeated for a third time running, and the new President of the United States - likely Barack Obama or John McCain - will be welcomed into office by a terror attack that will occur within the first year of his tenure. "When the next president takes office in January, he or she will likely receive an intelligence brief warning that Islamic terrorists will attempt to exploit the transition ...
Bush: We’ll Be in Iraq for 40 Years, Hamas Election Was “Good Thing”
Post Date: 2008-06-04 21:33:40 by bush_is_a_moonie
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When NBC News correspondent Richard Engel sat down with President Bush last year for an interview, he had little idea how much Bush would reveal about his true intentions and his real sentiments about the war on terror and America’s allies and enemies. Among the excerpts of the interview captured in Engel’s new book, “War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq”: - “‘This is the great war of our times. It is going to take forty years,’” [Bush told Engel]. “Bush said in forty years the world would know if the war on terrorism, and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, had reduced extremism, helped moderates, and promoted democracy.” - Bush admits to ...
U.S./Iraq sign agreement allowing US to strike any country in region.
Post Date: 2008-06-04 18:59:07 by noone222
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New agreement lets US strike any country from inside Iraq By Basil Adas, Correspondent Published: June 03, 2008, 13:42 Baghdad: A proposed Iraqi-American security agreement will include permanent American bases in the country, and the right for the United States to strike, from within Iraqi territory, any country it considers a threat to its national security, Gulf News has learned. Senior Iraqi military sources have told Gulf News that the long-term controversial agreement is likely to include three major items. Under the agreement, Iraqi security institutions such as Defence, Interior and National Security ministries, as well as armament contracts, will be under American supervision ...
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