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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Obama says will back Petraeus for new military job [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-04-27 19:59:18 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who has called for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq, said on Sunday he will vote to confirm the top commander there for a new job as head of the military's Central Command. President George W. Bush has nominated Gen. David Petraeus, who led the buildup of troops in Iraq, to be in charge of operations across the Middle East and Central Asia. If confirmed by the Senate, Petraeus will still be in that job when the next president replaces Bush at the White House in January 2009. Obama hopes that person is him. "Yes," Obama told "Fox News Sunday" when asked if, as a senator from Illinois, he ...
Ignoring Uptick In Iraq Violence, Lieberman And Graham Accuse War Critics Of ‘A Crisis Of Credibility’»
Post Date: 2008-04-27 19:53:44 by tom007
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Ignoring Uptick In Iraq Violence, Lieberman And Graham Accuse War Critics Of ‘A Crisis Of Credibility’» liebermangraham.jpgWriting in the Wall Street Journal today, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) accuse critics of the Iraq war of facing “a crisis of credibility” because they “confidently predicted the failure of the surge.” But in their effort to argue that anti-war critics have “been proven decidedly wrong,” Lieberman and Graham undermine their own credibility on the issue by ignoring recent developments in the war-torn country. As proof of the surge’s success, the two hawkish senators cite statistics that they say ...
Investigators: Millions in Iraq contracts never finished
Post Date: 2008-04-27 19:36:52 by robin
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including failed projects that are being falsely described by the U.S. government as complete, federal investigators say. The audit released Sunday by Stuart Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, provides the latest snapshot of an uneven reconstruction effort that has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 billion. It also comes as several lawmakers have said they want the Iraqis to pick up more of the cost of reconstruction. The special IG's review of 47,321 reconstruction projects worth billions ...
Baghdad Green Zone blasted under cover of storm
Post Date: 2008-04-27 16:17:38 by richard9151
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1 hour, 9 minutes ago BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Militants bombarded Baghdad's Green Zone with rockets on Sunday, taking advantage of the cover of a blinding dust storm to launch one of the heaviest strikes in weeks on the fortified compound. The strikes appeared to defy a renewed call for a ceasefire by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which has seen many of his masked gunmen leave the streets of the Sadr City slum where they hold sway in eastern Baghdad. Reuters correspondents heard the missiles whistling overhead and exploding inside the heavily fortified government and diplomatic compound on the west side of the Tigris River in Baghdad. Sirens wailed, ordering people to take cover. ...
Baghdad Green Zone Bombarded With Rockets
Post Date: 2008-04-27 15:52:05 by robin
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Reuters reports that the U.S. Green Zone in Baghdad was bombarded by rockets in one of the heaviest assaults in weeks on the fortified compound: Militants bombarded Baghdad's Green Zone with rockets on Sunday, taking advantage of the cover of a blinding dust storm to launch one of the heaviest strikes in weeks on the fortified compound. The strikes appeared to defy a renewed call for a ceasefire issued on Friday by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which has seen many of his masked gunmen leave the streets of the Sadr City slum where they hold sway in eastern Baghdad... ...Iraqi police said eight missiles or mortars had hit the Green Zone and another 14 fell in other parts of the ...
Pentagon suspends controversial briefings
Post Date: 2008-04-27 15:37:07 by robin
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The secretary of defense will no longer brief retired military officers-turned-network television analysts, the chief Pentagon spokesman said Friday. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld started the briefings during the buildup to the war in Iraq. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Robert Hastings said he suspended the program this week amid media scrutiny of the practice. An article in the Sunday New York Times alleged that the analysts were used to push the Bush administration's messages topics including the war in Iraq and what was going on in the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The report also claimed that some of the analysts were ...
The No Escape Clause on Iraq
Post Date: 2008-04-27 07:23:23 by Ada
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A Review of "Stop-Loss" "Be all you can be” extol the commercials inducing naïve youngsters to enlist. The pictures show attractive people learning skills, not killing or getting killed, wounded or psychically scarred. The palpable glorification of the military gets reinforced through welcome home parades in small towns and repeated celebratory references by the President, Congress and the patriotic media. At ball games, announcers use the 7th inning stretch to pay tribute to those serving in the military. From the words, the TV commercials and countless movies, one would conclude the US military is invincible. Such accolades about the presumed success of US ...
Taliban claims helicopter attack
Post Date: 2008-04-26 22:12:17 by richard9151
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The Taliban in Afghanistan says it has shot down a US military helicopter. Zabihullah Mujahed, a Taliban spokesman, told Al Jazeera that three US soldiers were killed in the incident and another two injured on Saturday. The US has admitted there was fighting in the area, but denies that any of its aircraft were brought down. Dhabihullah Mujahid, Al Jazeera's correspondent in the region, reported the Taliban as saying they brought the helicopter down in Konar state in eastern part of the country. A US forces spokesperson in Konar, which is to the east of Kabul, said that clashes had taken place and the US warplanes had carried out bombing raids. The state of Konar lies on the ...
In war, some facts less factual
Post Date: 2008-04-26 22:10:44 by richard9151
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from the September 06, 2002 edition 12 YEARS AGO: US troops deployed in the Saudi desert November, 1990, before the Gulf War. As the US mulls an attack on Iraq, wary experts recall faulty information used to justify past campaigns. Some US assertions from the last war on Iraq still appear dubious. MOSCOW – When George H. W. Bush ordered American forces to the Persian Gulf – to reverse Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait – part of the administration case was that an Iraqi juggernaut was also threatening to roll into Saudi Arabia. Citing top-secret satellite images, Pentagon officials estimated in mid–September that up to 250,000 Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks ...
Pentagon Reports on Iraq's Military Are Suspect, Audit Says
Post Date: 2008-04-26 22:03:47 by richard9151
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April 25 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. public and lawmakers should be skeptical of the Pentagon's quarterly reports on Iraq's progress toward building a viable military and police force, according to a new audit. The reports from the Defense Department are based on data supplied by the Iraqi government that hasn't been fully vetted by the U.S. military and is unreliable, according to the Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart Bowen. There are ``uncertainties,'' for example, ``about the true number'' of Iraqi military and police personnel on active duty or in training, Bowen wrote. ``A substantial number of personnel still on the payroll are not ...
A Bad Investment (war on terror)
Post Date: 2008-04-26 21:32:46 by farmfriend
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A Bad Investment By: William F. Jasper April 28, 2008 Blowback: Unintended negative consequences from some action or policy. Tuly Wultz and his 16-year-old son Daniel were enjoying a Passover holiday dinner at a Tel Aviv restaurant when the suicide bomber struck. Nine diners were killed in the grisly attack that day in April 2006 and dozens more were wounded, including the Wultzes, Americans from Florida who were visiting Israel on vacation. Daniel, who was the more severely injured of the two, lost his spleen, a kidney, and a leg in the blast. Despite the heroic efforts of doctors, he died a month later in an Israeli hospital. Because Daniel Wultz was an American, the terror attack ...
Pentagon Propaganda: So Much Worse Than We Thought
Post Date: 2008-04-26 21:28:25 by Original_Intent
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Pentagon Propaganda: So Much Worse Than We Thought John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton AlterNet April 25, 2008 David Barstow of the New York Times has written the first installment in what is already a stunning exposé of the Bush Administration’s most powerful propaganda weapon used to sell and manage the war on Iraq: the embedding of military propagandists directly into the TV networks as on-air commentators. We and others have long criticized the widespread TV network practice of hiring former military officials to serve as analysts, but even in our most cynical moments we did not anticipate how bad it was. Barstow has painstakingly documented how these analysts, most of them ...
Fisk Fighting (Excellent Interview of Robert Fisk, Recommended!)
Post Date: 2008-04-26 18:47:27 by tom007
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Fisk Fighting By WAJAHAT ALI "One thing I’m going to say to you now, please make sure – and I hope you’re tape recording this – but please make sure you’re quoting me accurately. Don’t even for the basis of shortening something make me say something I haven’t said,” orders celebrated journalist Robert Fisk. I reply, “You won’t be misquoted, and if you want I’ll -” “Because the biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven’t said.” I assuage him, “I’ve taped every single word, and I’ve got what you’ve said down, and so ...
Osama bin Ladin a Product of Polygamy
Post Date: 2008-04-26 16:26:31 by Turtle
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LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) - A new book looks at Osama bin Laden through the prism of his family, and suggests that the death of his extrovert playboy brother Salem in a 1988 plane crash was an important factor in his radicalisation. "The Bin Ladens", by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, traces the family's rise to prominence in Saudi society through the 20th century and how its fate, and that of Osama in particular, was inextricably linked with the royal family's. By putting Osama's life in the context of his 53 globetrotting brothers and sisters and the upheavals facing Saudi Arabia, Coll seeks to dispel some of the myths surrounding a man often portrayed ...
Machine Gun-Toting Officers To Patrol NYC Subway
Post Date: 2008-04-25 22:38:05 by richard9151
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M4 Carbine Rifles, MP5 Submachine Guns & Bomb Sniffing Dogs Part Of New "Torch Team" Anti-Terror Efforts Apr 24, 2008 8:09 pm US/Eastern NEW YORK (CBS) 53; The NYPD is pulling out all the stops to beef up safety of the subways. On Thursday it launched a new anti-terror effort called "Operation Torch," but the cost of the program is raising some eyebrows. The NYPD's new firepower consists of cops with Mp5 submachine guns, rifles, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs. Starting Thursday, five or six teams a day will patrol the major transit hubs in the city in the new program, all thanks to a 50 percent increase in a Homeland Security grant. "Times Square, ...
Taliban bitten by a snake in the grass
Post Date: 2008-04-25 22:12:42 by richard9151
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April 26, 2008 KARACHI - The Taliban and their al-Qaeda associates, in what they considered a master stroke, this year started to target the Western alliance's supply lines that run through Pakistan into Afghanistan. Their focal point was Khyber Agency, in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a key transit point for as much as 70% of the alliance's supplies needed to maintain its battle against the Afghan insurgency. The spectacular blowing up on March 20 of 40 gas tankers at Torkham - the border crossing in Khyber Agency into Afghanistan's Nangarhar province - sent shock waves through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led (NATO) coalition. So much so that ...
State media: Iran denies confrontation with U.S. ship in Gulf
Post Date: 2008-04-25 21:55:31 by tom007
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State media: Iran denies confrontation with U.S. ship in Gulf www.chinaview.cn 2008-04-26 03:50:45 Print TEHRAN, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Iran on Friday denied any military confrontation between its boats and U.S. ships in the Gulf, the state media reported. A senior official of the elite Revolutionary Guards rejected the Western reports that an American ship had opened fire on Iranian patrol boats in the Gulf, said the English channel Press TV. "If UK or U.S. vessels had fired at Iranian boats, based on previous experiences, they would have faced the harshest reaction by Iranian forces," the official was quoted as saying. U.S. officials said Friday that a vessel contracted by the ...
Joint Chiefs Chairman Says U.S. Preparing Military Options Against Iran
Post Date: 2008-04-25 21:46:18 by richard9151
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25/04/08 "Washington Post" -- - The nation's top military officer said today that the Pentagon is planning for "potential military courses of action" against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government's "increasingly lethal and malign influence" in Iraq. Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a conflict with Iran would be "extremely stressing" but not impossible for U.S. forces, pointing specifically to reserve capabilities in the Navy and Air Force. "It would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability," he said at a Pentagon news conference. Still, Mullen made clear that he ...
American Police State
Post Date: 2008-04-25 17:32:54 by ghostdogtxn
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Iraq war architect blames Powell for Iraq
Post Date: 2008-04-25 16:20:05 by robin
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Blames Powell, Armitage, Bremer, Rumsfeld, Rice The man who led the office that supplied the Bush Administration with "raw intelligence" on Iraq now says everyone else is to blame but himself. Douglas Feith, President Bush's former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, headed the Office of Special Plans, a secretive outfit which passed along unverified "alternative" intelligence to Administration decisionmakers in the run up to war. A Senate Intelligence Committee report found that the Office "developed, produced, and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al Qaida relationship, which included some conclusions that were ...
Oil prices up on word US ship fired on boats in Persian Gulf
Post Date: 2008-04-25 14:15:07 by tom007
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Oil prices up on word US ship fired on boats in Persian Gulf Friday April 25, 1:59 pm ET By John Wilen, AP Business Writer Oil jumps on supply concerns stoked by firing in Persian Gulf, attack in Nigeria NEW YORK (AP) -- Oil prices rose sharply Friday on news that a ship under contract to the U.S. Defense Department fired warning shots at two boats in the Persian Gulf. Retail gas prices as expected rose further into record territory, nearing $3.60 a gallon. ADVERTISEMENT Crude prices rose on initial reports that a U.S. ship had fired on two Iranian boats; the news raised concerns that a conflict between U.S. and Iranian forces could cut oil supplies from the region. Later reports said ...
The Protocols: Structure and Themes [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-04-25 13:10:35 by JiminyC
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Structure and themes The 24 Protocols are posited as instructions to a new Elder, outlining how the group will control the world. The Elders want to trick all "gentile nations", whom they call "goyim", into doing their will. Their preferred methods include: ProtocolTheme1 Alcoholism, Annihilation of the privileges of the non-Jewish aristocracy, among other topics.2, 9, 12The propagation of ideas, such as Darwinism, Marxism, Nietzsche-ism, Liberalism, Socialism, Communism, Anarchism, and Utopianism, with the task of undermining established forms of order. 4Materialism5World government7World wars 10Staging catastrophes against one's own people, then claiming a ...
Kangaroo Tribunals versus Trial by Jury
Post Date: 2008-04-25 05:49:49 by Ada
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Ever since 9/11 the U.S. government has maintained a criminal-justice system that enables it to treat suspected terrorists in two alternative ways: as criminal defendants in federal district court or as unlawful enemy combatants in the Pentagon’s military system. It would be difficult to find a better example of denial of equal protection and a violation of the rule of law than this optional, ad hoc, discretionary power to treat accused terrorists in two completely different ways. One of the reasons that the Pentagon has tried its best to shunt accused terrorists into its system is the right of trial by jury, a critically important right that, prior to 9/11, used to be guaranteed to ...
The Rockefellers predicted 9/11 terrorism well in advance
Post Date: 2008-04-25 04:36:32 by wudidiz
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Hollywood director, documentary film maker and a former politician ( Aaron Russo) has gone in-depth on the astounding admissions of Nick Rockefeller, who ... all » personally told him that the elite's ultimate goal was to create a microchipped population and that the war on terror was a hoax, Rockefeller having predicted an "event" that would trigger the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan eleven months before 9/11. Rockefeller also told Russo that his family's foundation had created and bankrolled the women's liberation movement in order to destroy the family and that population reduction was a fundamental aim of the global elite. Aaron Russo died of ...
What the Family Would Let You See, the Pentagon Obstructs
Post Date: 2008-04-24 21:09:04 by richard9151
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Thursday, April 24, 2008; A03 Lt. Col. Billy Hall, one of the most senior officers to be killed in the Iraq war, was laid to rest yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery. It's hard to escape the conclusion that the Pentagon doesn't want you to know that. The family of 38-year-old Hall, who leaves behind two young daughters and two stepsons, gave their permission for the media to cover his Arlington burial -- a decision many grieving families make so that the nation will learn about their loved ones' sacrifice. But the military had other ideas, and they arranged the Marine's burial yesterday so that no sound, and few images, would make it into the public domain. ...
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