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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Bush Tours Once-Squalid Latrine
Post Date: 2008-05-24 01:12:13 by Ferret Mike
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President Bush, led by 1st Sgt. David Santos, inspects the renovated bathroom at Fort Bragg, N.C. (By Charles Dharapak -- Associated Press) FORT BRAGG, N.C., May 22 -- President Bush toured a spic-and-span latrine Thursday that appeared vastly improved from a month ago, when an Internet video showed raw sewage and peeling paint in barracks used to house U.S. troops returning from Afghanistan. U.S. Army officials said $3 million has been spent since then on improvements to the Korean War-era barracks, which will eventually be replaced as part of a massive military infrastructure plan. "These buildings are coming down," Bush said after a tour of the restroom, which was freshly ...
War Abroad, Poverty at Home
Post Date: 2008-05-24 00:39:29 by christine
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The US Senate has voted $165 billion to fund Bush’s wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq through next spring.
As the US is broke and deep in debt, every one of the $165 billion dollars will have to be borrowed. American consumers are also broke and deep in debt. Their zero saving rate means every one of the $165 billion dollars will have to be borrowed from foreigners.
The “world’s only superpower” is so broke it can’t even finance its own wars.
Each additional dollar that the irresponsible Bush Regime has to solicit from foreigners puts more downward pressure on the dollar’s value. During the eight wasted and extravagant years of the Bush Regime, the once ...
Uncle Sam Wants Thugs And Illegal Aliens
Post Date: 2008-05-22 20:53:27 by christine
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In the eyes of the military, it’s a simple numbers game. But the recruitment process for America’s armed forces is changing, and so is the look, feel, and policy of the military itself. According to national statistics, felony waivers for recruits have been doubling almost every year for the past several years. Military.com reports: “The number of felony waivers granted by the Army grew from 411 in 2003 to 901 in 2006, according to the Pentagon, or about one in 10 of the moral waivers approved that year. Other misdemeanors - from petty theft or writing a bad check to some assaults - jumped from about 2,700 to more than 6,000 in 2006, representing more than three-quarters of ...
Blood and Oil: Why Japan Attacked Pearl; FDR's Embargo and the Start of the Pacific War
Post Date: 2008-05-22 09:57:32 by Jethro Tull
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Blood and Oil: Why Japan Attacked Pearl; FDR's Embargo and the Start of the Pacific War From:The Washington PostDate:December 1, 1991Author:Daniel YerginMore results for:act of war oil
AMERICANS WILL always consider the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the ultimate act of international treachery, a blow delivered without warning. But the prevailing Japanese view has always explained the attack in quite different terms, portraying it as a predictable response to American actions that left Japan mortally vulnerable and with no alternative but to strike.
In the Japanese view, these U.S. actions centered on oil. As in most conflicts of this war-scarred century, oil was a ...
Former Clinton Whitehouse aide: We're in for a "cataclysmic" Bush endgame
Post Date: 2008-05-22 08:39:06 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Former Clinton Whitehouse aide: We're in for a "cataclysmic" Bush endgame Sidney Blumenthal says Bush feels "unconstrained." May 20, 2008 1:52 PM Sidney Blumenthal, journalist, former Clinton White House aide and senior advisor to Hillary Clinton, today spoke at Third Way to promote his new book "The Strange Death of Republican America". He said that the US faces a "cataclysmic" final few months of the Bush term, and that Bush is determined to leave a lasting mark on the world regardless of who is elected the next president. "Bush feels unconstrained right now, and a sense of urgency," Blumenthal said, later referring to a Jerusalem ...
Bush's Endless Hypocrisy on Terror
Post Date: 2008-05-22 06:34:22 by Ada
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Is a government guilty of terrorism if it harbors known terrorists? What should one say about a country that permits open fund-raising on behalf of a terrorist implicated in the mass killing of civilians? What about a government that secretly arms a guerrilla army that wantonly kills and abuses civilians while seeking to overthrow an elected government? If your answer to those questions is to recite George W. Bush’s dictum that a government that harbors or helps terrorists should be punished just like the terrorists, then you must turn your wrath on the U.S. government and the Bush family -- guilty on all the above points. But the U.S. political/media system continues to view the ...
Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons
Post Date: 2008-05-21 21:15:10 by Horse
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(NaturalNews) The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S. military may lead to a death toll far higher than that from the nuclear bombs dropped at the end of World War II. DU is a waste product of uranium enrichment, containing approximately one-third the radioactive isotopes of naturally occurring uranium. Because of its high density, it is used in armor- or tank-piercing ammunition. It has been fired by the U.S. and British militaries in the two Iraq wars and in Afghanistan, as well as by NATO forces in Kosovo and the Israeli military in Lebanon and Palestine. Inhaled or ingested DU particles are highly toxic, and DU has been classified as an illegal weapon of mass ...
Washington Times mocks 'Bush the bee killer'
Post Date: 2008-05-21 11:18:15 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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When NBC's Richard Engel interviewed Pesident George W. Bush in Egypt during his largely unproductive Mid-East tour, Bush for the most part confined his remarks to repeating well-established positions on Iran and the Middle East. However, Bush did respond with one interesting new metaphor when Engel suggested, "Many people say that [the war on terror] has not made the world safer, that it has created more radicals, that there are more people in this part of the world who want to attack the United States." "This is the beehive theory," Bush replied. "You should have just let the beehive sit there and hope the bees don't come out of the hive." ...
Presidential Notice: Continuation of Iraq Emergency
Post Date: 2008-05-21 10:21:27 by aristeides
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Notice of May 20, 2008 Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Stabilization of Iraq On May 22, 2003, by Executive Order 13303, I declared a national emergency protecting the Development Fund for Iraq and certain other property in which Iraq has an interest, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) (IEEPA). I took this action to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by obstacles to the orderly reconstruction of Iraq, the restoration and maintenance of peace and security in the country, and the development of political, administrative, and economic ...
Iraqi Perspectives Project (This is for REAL)
Post Date: 2008-05-20 22:19:42 by BIGBUCKS_BADEYE
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Executive Summary The Iraqi Perspectives Project (IPP) review of captured Iraqi documents uncovered strong evidence that links the regime of Saddam Hussein to regional and global terrorism. Despite their incompatible long-term goals, many terrorist movements and Saddam found a common enemy in the United States. At times these organizations worked together, trading access for capability. In the period after the 1991 Gulf War, the regime of Saddam Hussein supported a complex and increasingly disparate mix of pan-Arab revolutionary causes and emerging pan-Islamic radical movements. The relationship between Iraq and forces of pan-Arab socialism was well known and was in fact one of the defining ...
New NSA Whistleblower Tells of Faulty WMD Evidence
Post Date: 2008-05-20 21:46:06 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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New NSA Whistleblower Tells of Faulty WMD Evidence http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/33525 By David Swanson David Murfee Faulk was a translator in the Navy, working in Arabic and Iraqi dialect. In April 2004 he began working for the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Gordon outside Augusta, Georgia. (He now writes, under the name Murfee Faulk, for the Metro Spirit newspaper in Augusta, but he has never written about what he did for the NSA.) Faulk says that in May 2004 he found an extremely large text file containing grid coordinates for alleged chemical weapons sites in Iraq. Faulk showed it to his supervisor, who was surprised. But he was not surprised that the file existed, ...
Olmert to Pelosi: Impose naval blockade on Iran 32;
Post Date: 2008-05-20 21:21:06 by wbales
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert proposed in discussions Monday with the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, that a naval blockade be imposed on Iran as one of several ways to pressure Iran into stopping its uranium enrichment program. Although the White House denied a published report that U.S. President George W. Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term in January, the Bush administration is said not to have ruled out entirely the possibility of an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. A story in the Jerusalem Post quoted an unidentified official as claiming that a "senior member" of Bush's entourage to Israel last week made the statement ...
Report: U.S. Will Attack Iran
Post Date: 2008-05-20 15:39:47 by TwentyTwelve
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Report: U.S. Will Attack Iran Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:40 PM By: Newsmax Staff Israel’s Army Radio is reporting that President Bush intends to launch a military strike against Iran before the end of his term. The Army Radio, a network operated by the Israeli Defense Forces, quoted a government source in Jerusalem. The source disclosed that a senior official close to Bush said in a closed meeting that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney believed military action against Iran was now called for. Bush concluded a trip to Israel last week, where he said, "The objective of the United States must be to . . . support our strongest ally and friend in the Middle East.” The Radio ...
US denies report on plan to attack Iran (JERUSALEM POST)
Post Date: 2008-05-20 11:49:46 by aristeides
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US denies report on plan to attack Iran By JPOST.COM STAFF The White House on Tuesday flatly denied an Army Radio report that claimed US President George W. Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term. It said that while the military option had not been taken off the table, the Administration preferred to resolve concerns about Iran's push for a nuclear weapon "through peaceful diplomatic means." Army Radio had quoted a top official in Jerusalem claiming that a senior member in the entourage of President Bush, who concluded a trip to Israel last week, had said in a closed meeting here that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were of the opinion that military ...
40,000 told to prepare for action
Post Date: 2008-05-20 09:02:24 by Jethro Tull
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The Louisiana National Guard unit that was called home in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was ordered yesterday to prepare to return to Iraq for its second tour. The members of the 256th Brigade Combat Team were not alone. Pentagon officials notified about 40,000 active-duty and National Guard soldiers yesterday that they will be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the upcoming months and years. About 25,000 active-duty troops and 14,000 National Guard members will be called to replace those returning from the region. The majority will be going to Iraq.
Poster Comment:The O'Bummerites should be happy wiht the Afghanistan deployment. He's hot on the trail of SpookDaddy ...
We'd Go Nuts
Post Date: 2008-05-20 06:56:21 by Ada
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I wonder how we would react if 50,000 of us got killed in one whack, as apparently has happened in the China earthquake. Or, God forbid, 121,000, which is the high estimate for the number of dead in the Myanmar cyclone. Judging from our reaction to the terror attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which claimed 3,000 lives, I suspect we would go nuts. Back in 2001, it became Terror Week on television, so that we got to see the damage endless numbers of times. Politicians were scrambling for flag pins and trying to remember the words of the national anthem. Hardly a family pet could be buried without the TV cameras and the mayor showing up. The president said it was our ...
Appeasing Bush
Post Date: 2008-05-20 06:17:16 by Ada
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On his recent trip to Israel, President Bush ignited a political firestorm within the Obama, Clinton, and McCain camps by suggesting that it would be wrong to “appease” the Ahmadinejad regime in Iran. Unfortunately, Bush has the appeasement issue inverted. The real appeasement question is whether people in the Middle East should appease Bush and, if so, whether appeasement would assuage Bush’s aggressive designs in that part of the world. For example, suppose the insurgents in Iraq, who are currently committed to ousting U.S. forces from their country, suddenly decided to let Bush have Iraq. Would Bush give up his designs on Iran or would he be satisfied with simply having ...
South Africa has shown how to built the 'bomb'
Post Date: 2008-05-20 00:09:36 by X-15
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"If al-Qaeda or any other revolutionary group or rogue state were to consider building the bomb, they would almost certainly have to walk the same path South Africa did in the 1970s and 1980s to achieve that objective." This assertion sets the tone for a soon-to-be published examination of how South Africa built six atom bombs and then abandoned its nuclear weapons programme. Indeed, that's the title of a new book - the third by local writer Al J Venter to deal with the vexed issue of nuclear weapons proliferation. The old South African regime always insisted it would resist threats to national survival with all the force at its command. So what force was available to ...
Pentagon announces Iraq, Afghanistan troop deployments
Post Date: 2008-05-19 22:11:52 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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WASHINGTON - The Pentagon on Monday announced upcoming deployments of more than 42,000 troops, including 25,000 active duty Army soldiers who would be sent to Iraq beginning in the fall to replace troops scheduled to come home by year's end. The deployments would maintain a level of 15 brigades in Iraq, or roughly 140,000 troops — the number military leaders expect will remain on the warfront at the end of July, once the currently planned withdrawals are finished. Under the new Pentagon policy effective in August, those active duty Army units will serve for 12 months, rather than the 15-month tours that units in Iraq now are serving. The bulk of the soldiers deploying later this ...
Mexico Destabilizing: Is War With USA Imminent?
Post Date: 2008-05-19 21:40:35 by X-15
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Now risen to the level of an insurgent war, the battle between the falling Kleptocratic Mexican government and supra-wealthy organized crime groups who now control much of Mexico's land areas, police forces, and even some of its military has hit a new milestone. Exasperating political climates, the violence, bloodshed, and hatred for Americans South of the border, coupled with rising injustices and racism against and by US citizens, compounded by an incompetent federal government North of the border, are propagating the fires of civil discontent on both sides and about to strip-away the last veneers of civility. Toss into the ugly political salad the mix of illegal immigration, free ...
Whistle-Blower Points to Target List in U.S. Attack on Hotel
Post Date: 2008-05-19 00:09:44 by bush_is_a_moonie
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More than five years have passed since the invasion of Iraq, since President Bush stood under the “Mission Accomplished” banner on that aircraft carrier. While these fifth anniversaries got some notice, another did not: the shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad by a U.S. Army tank on April 8, 2003. The tank attack killed two unembedded journalists, Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk and José Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish television network Telecinco. Couso recorded his own death. He was filming from the balcony and caught on tape the distant tank as it rotated its turret and fired on the hotel. A Spanish court has charged three U.S. servicemen with murder, but the ...
Iran busts CIA terror network
Post Date: 2008-05-18 18:02:53 by PSUSA
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Tehran Times Political Desk TEHRAN - The Intelligence Ministry on Saturday released details of the detection and dismantling of a terrorist network affiliated to the United States. In a coordinated operation on May 7, Iranian intelligence agents arrested the terrorist network’s members, who were identified in Fars, Khuzestan, Gilan, West Azerbaijan, and Tehran provinces, the Intelligence Ministry announcement said. The group’s plans were devised in the U.S., according to the announcement, which added that they had planned to carry out a number of acts such as bombing scientific, educational, and religious centers, shooting people, and making public places in various cities ...
Bush's Iraq War Harms US Security
Post Date: 2008-05-18 16:46:14 by Ada
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Editor’s Note: Amazingly, just weeks ago, major outlets of the U.S. news media – including the op-ed pages of the Washington Post and the New York Times – were running neoconservative screeds about the glorious success of George W. Bush’s Iraq War “surge” and baiting war opponents for lacking “realism.” Now, with U.S. casualties again spiking and American troops bogged down in Iraq indefinitely, there have been virtually no prominent articles taking the neocons to task for their lack of realism in failing to see the security risk their policies have created, a fact that the Independent Institute’s Charles V. Peña notes in this guest ...
The Smart Way Out of a Foolish War
Post Date: 2008-05-17 18:03:29 by Arator
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The Smart Way Out of a Foolish War By Zbigniew Brzezinski Sunday, March 30, 2008; B03 Both Democratic presidential candidates agree that the United States should end its combat mission in Iraq within 12 to 16 months of their possible inauguration. The Republican candidate has spoken of continuing the war, even for a hundred years, until "victory." The core issue of this campaign is thus a basic disagreement over the merits of the war and the benefits and costs of continuing it. The case for U.S. disengagement from combat is compelling in its own right. But it must be matched by a comprehensive political and diplomatic effort to mitigate the destabilizing regional consequences ...
Terrorized by 'War on Terror' - How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America
Post Date: 2008-05-17 17:33:35 by Arator
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Terrorized by 'War on Terror' How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America By Zbigniew Brzezinski Sunday, March 25, 2007; B01 The "war on terror" has created a culture of fear in America. The Bush administration's elevation of these three words into a national mantra since the horrific events of 9/11 has had a pernicious impact on American democracy, on America's psyche and on U.S. standing in the world. Using this phrase has actually undermined our ability to effectively confront the real challenges we face from fanatics who may use terrorism against us. The damage these three words have done -- a classic self-inflicted wound -- is infinitely greater than any ...
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