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Military Personnel Account for 20% of U.S. Suicides
Post Date: 2008-04-12 14:20:28 by Red Jones
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Military Personnel Account for 20% of U.S. Suicides (Update2) By Tom Randall and Rob Waters April 10 (Bloomberg) -- Current and former military personnel accounted for about 20 percent of U.S. suicides in 2005, according to a government study. About 1,821 current or former soldiers committed suicide in 16 states in 2005, the most recent year of available data, according to the report published today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Almost half were diagnosed with depression and a third left suicide notes. A rise in suicides among soldiers serving in the military has alarmed Pentagon planners and members of Congress as the war in Iraq enters its sixth year. An Army ...
It's Occupation, Not War
Post Date: 2008-04-12 06:30:40 by Zoroaster
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? April 12, 2008 It's Occupation, Not War by Charley Reese The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ended some years ago. In Iraq, the war ended with the fall of Saddam Hussein's government; in Afghanistan, with the fall of the Taliban government. What's been happening since is occupation and resistance to occupation. It's always helpful to call things by the right name. One of the ways using the wrong word can trip us is illustrated by John McCain's campaign theme. We have to win the war in Iraq, he keeps saying. Ending a war implies either winning or losing. No such baggage is attached to an occupation. You can end an occupation without either winning or losing. You just ...
War criminal says: Troop Levels Harming Military, Powell Says
Post Date: 2008-04-12 00:03:30 by richard9151
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POSTED: 11:50 am EDT April 10, 2008 UPDATED: 12:10 pm EDT April 10, 2008 WASHINGTON -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday that President George W. Bush's successor will have to come to grips with the reality that the United States cannot continue to keep such large numbers of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Without taking sides in the race for the White House, Powell said, "Whichever one of them becomes president on Jan. 1, 2009, they will face a military force that cannot continue to sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20 (thousand) odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments." Powell's comments in an ...
Top Bush aides oversaw torture sessions
Post Date: 2008-04-11 23:58:07 by bush_is_a_moonie
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According to an ABC report, top Bush aides, including Condi Rice, micromanaged the torture of terrorist suspects from the White House basement. Discussions on torture were so detailed, that some interrogation sessions were virtually choreographed by a White House advisory group, ABC's sources told reporters in a program aired on Wednesday. The torture advisory group included then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, then-defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, then-secretary of state Colin Powell, then-CIA director George Tenet and then-attorney general John Ashcroft and Vice President Dick Cheney ABC's sources said. The advisory group also approved the use of ...
Yoo Disbarment Sought
Post Date: 2008-04-11 21:20:49 by tom007
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Yoo Disbarment Sought by Steve Fournier Page 1 of 1 page(s) http://www.opednews.com Tell A Friend The National Lawyers' Guild has called for the disbarment of John Yoo, the former Justice Department attorney who authored the notorious "torture memorandum," used to justify the illegal imprisonment and maltreatment of prisoners held by American military authorities as "unlawful combatants." Yoo, currently on the law faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, is guilty of "complicity in establishing the policy that led to the torture of prisoners," said Guild President Marjorie Cohn, who condemns Yoo as a war criminal. The Guild, the nation's ...
U.S. planes blast Sadr City, PM tells Bush to pull out GIs
Post Date: 2008-04-11 20:19:00 by richard9151
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Friday, April 11, 2008 BAGHDAD, Iraq - The United States launched an air strike on the Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City, hours after 15 people died in fighting between American troops and militants. Military officials said yesterday that 15 militants were killed in four separate clashes during the night while Iraqi police said two more men were killed yesterday morning in the air strike on a building, targeted by missiles after a number of oxygen cylinders were spotted on the sidewalk outside. The violence coincided with the congressional testimony of the Bush administration’s top two officials in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. Petraeus recommended ...
Petraeus Points To War With Iran
Post Date: 2008-04-11 19:08:35 by richard9151
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11/04/08 "WND" --- - The neocons may yet get their war on Iran. Ever since President Nouri al-Maliki ordered the attacks in Basra on the Mahdi Army, Gen. David Petraeus has been laying the predicate for U.S. air strikes on Iran and a wider war in the Middle East. Iran, Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee, has "fueled the recent violence in a particularly damaging way through its lethal support of the special groups." These "special groups" are "funded, trained, armed and directed by Iran's Quds Force with help from Lebanese Hezbollah. It was these groups that launched Iranian rockets and mortar rounds at Iraq's seat of government ...
The Holocaust Declaration (KRAUTHAMMER: IRANIAN NUKES INEVITABLE)
Post Date: 2008-04-11 15:47:19 by aristeides
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The Holocaust Declaration By Charles Krauthammer Friday, April 11, 2008; Page A21 On Tuesday Iran announced it was installing 6,000 more centrifuges -- they produce enriched uranium, the key ingredient of a nuclear weapon -- in addition to the 3,000 already operating. The world yawned. It is time to admit the truth: The Bush administration's attempt to halt Iran's nuclear program has failed. Utterly. The latest round of U.N. Security Council sanctions, which took a year to achieve, is comically weak. It represents the end of the sanctions road. At home, the president's efforts to stop Iran's nuclear program were irreparably undermined by November's National ...
Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'
Post Date: 2008-04-11 11:27:44 by aristeides
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Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers' By Noah Shachtman March 31, 2008 | 1:11:05 PM A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers." Since the start of the Iraq war, there's been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs -- and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction sees blogs as security risks, and a collective waste of troops' time. The other (which includes top officers, like Gen. David Petraeus and Lt. Gen. William Caldwell) considers blogs to be a valuable source of information, and a way for ordinary troops to shape opinions, both at ...
Bush: Iraq withdrawals to freeze in July
Post Date: 2008-04-11 09:39:43 by angle
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush on Thursday ordered an indefinite halt to US troop withdrawals from Iraq come July, warning that the strife-torn country remains too fragile five years after Baghdad fell. "Serious and complex challenges remain in Iraq, from the presence of Al-Qaeda to the destructive influence of Iran to hard compromises needed for further political progress," Bush said in a speech defending his strategy. With his fellow Republicans worried about the vastly unpopular conflict's cost in November elections, Bush said he was also shortening troop deployments, and promised that "while this war is difficult, it is not endless." Still, ...
Nine Propositions on the U.S. Air War for Terror
Post Date: 2008-04-11 06:39:25 by Ada
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Let's start with a few simple propositions. First, the farther away you are from the ground, the clearer things are likely to look, the more god-like you are likely to feel, the less human those you attack are likely to be to you. How much more so, of course, if you, the "pilot," are actually sitting at a console at an air base near Las Vegas, identifying a "suspect" thousands of miles away via video monitor, "following" that suspect into a house, and then letting loose a Hellfire missile from a Predator drone cruising somewhere over Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, or the tribal areas of Pakistan. Second, however "precise" your weaponry, however ...
The U.S. Military Index
Post Date: 2008-04-11 03:08:46 by bush_is_a_moonie
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In an exclusive new index, Foreign Policy and the Center for a New American Security surveyed more than 3,400 active and retired officers at the highest levels of command about the state of the U.S. military. They see a force stretched dangerously thin and a country ill-prepared for the next fight. Today, the U.S. military is engaged in a campaign that is more demanding and intense than anything it has witnessed in a generation. Ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, now entering their fifth and seventh years respectively, have lasted longer than any U.S. military engagements of the past century, with the exception of Vietnam. More than 25,000 American servicemen and women have been wounded ...
Pelosi: Bush's war has 'taken us deeply into debt, and that debt is taking us into recession'
Post Date: 2008-04-10 22:11:34 by robin
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In the Democratic Party response to President Bush's speech on Iraq Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) emphasized the staggering costs of the war, its growing strain on the US military, and its failure to make Americans any safer. "The president has taken us into a failed war," Pelosi stated. "He's taken us deeply into debt, and that debt is taking us into recession. We need some answers." Bush's speech followed Congressional testimony earlier in the week by Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. Bush painted a rosy picture of conditions in Iraq, saying that "fifteen months ago, ...
The Three Trillion Dollar War – The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict.
Post Date: 2008-04-10 21:06:59 by robin
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The Three Trillion Dollar War – The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict. Review of Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes's most recent book By Jim MilesGlobal Research, April 10, 2008 Following on their previous pronouncement that war costs could amount to as much as 1 trillion to 2 trillion dollars, ten times more than even then previously thought [1], Stiglitz and Bilmes have furthered their research into the cost of the war with their new title The Three Trillion Dollar War. But it isn’t – three trillion dollars that is. More than likely it will be much higher, as this “realistic-moderate” appraisal is continually described as conservative, with comments about always ...
Bush warns Iran of 'choice' on Iraq
Post Date: 2008-04-10 18:53:03 by FOH
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush warned Iran Thursday that it faced a "choice" on Iraq and said that the United States would act to defend its interests there from any threats from Tehran. "The regime in Tehran also has a choice to make: They can live in peace with its neighbor, enjoy strong economic and cultural and religious ties, or it can continue to arm and train and fund illegal militant groups which are terrorizing the Iraqi people and turning them against Iran," he said. "If Iran makes the right choice, America will encourage a peaceful relationship between Iran and Iraq. If Iran makes the wrong choice, America will act to protect our ...
Troop withdrawl freeze
Post Date: 2008-04-10 17:12:27 by angle
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Updated: 05:56, Friday April 11, 2008 US President George W Bush has ordered an end to US troop withdrawals from Iraq in July. Mr Bush is also shortening troop deployments, saying 'while this war is difficult, it is not endless'.LIAR. It's now clear that it will be up to the next US President, who takes office in January next year, to decide how and when to end war, which has claimed the lives of 4,000 US troops. 'Serious and complex challenges remain in Iraq, from the presence of al-Qaeda to the destructive influence of Iran to hard compromises needed for further political progress,' Mr Bush said. Mr Bush has accepted the advice from the top US commander in Iraq, ...
Iran envoy offers nuclear technology to all Muslim states
Post Date: 2008-04-10 16:49:57 by X-15
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DOHA (AFP) - Iranian judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi told leaders of the Gulf Arab state of Qatar on Wednesday that his country was willing to put its controversial nuclear expertise at the service of all Muslim states. "Iran is determined to make the best use of this technology not only for Iran but also for all Muslim states," Shahroudi told a news conference in the Qatari capital Doha. His comments came after talks with Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, whose country hosts the headquarters of US Central Command which runs military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and across the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. Washington has been ...
IT'S GOOD TO BE IN IRAQ
Post Date: 2008-04-10 14:21:31 by swarthyguy
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Humorously, if it weren't idiotically harmful: the Arab press reported that Bald Samson had yelled at the Iraqi politicans when he discussed their failure to pass the oil law. Soon after he departed Iraq ("it's good to be in Iraq," he had said when he first got there), Maliki, feeling worthless as an asset, dispatched an unwilling army against the Mahdi men in Basra. It turns out, according to various media sources, that one target of the attack was the union of oil and dock workers. This union is dead set against the privatization of Iraq's oil industry. "Damn it, Maliki. F---ing break that union's back. Send in the troops. What the hell are we training ...
Colonel killed in Green Zone (from mortar round while on treadmill in Embassy - the surge is working!)
Post Date: 2008-04-10 11:47:24 by robin
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Colonel killed in Green Zone Wednesday, April 09, 2008 By NIKI DOYLE Times Staff Writer niki.doyle@htimes.com Sister says Stephen Scott on treadmill in U.S. Embassy When Col. Stephen Scott left for the Pentagon and later for Iraq, he never put a "For Sale" sign in the yard of his New Market home. Scott, 54, seemed to be on the fast-track to becoming a general with his recent assignment to train and arm the Iraqi troops, said his sister, Kathleen King. Now, his home sits empty, and his family members - all St. Louis natives - are planning his funeral after military officials told them Sunday that Scott had been killed in a mortar attack on Baghdad's Green Zone. "He ...
Army under stress from long wars WAY TO GO, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
Post Date: 2008-04-10 08:03:00 by angle
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WASHINGTON - U.S. soldiers are committing suicide at record levels, young officers are abandoning their military careers, and the heavy use of forces in Iraq has made it harder for the military to fight conflicts that could arise elsewhere. Unprecedented strains on the nation's all-volunteer military are threatening the health and readiness of the troops. While the spotlight Wednesday was on congressional hearings with the U.S. ambassador and commanding general for Iraq, Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard Cody was in another hearing room explaining how troops and their families are being taxed by long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the prospect of future years of conflict in ...
As Petraeus testifies, Baghdad teeters on edge of erupting
Post Date: 2008-04-10 06:56:28 by angle
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BAGHDAD — Army Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker were critical of Iran when they testified Tuesday before the Senate , barely giving credit for an Iranian-brokered cease-fire that curbed the killing after a week of Shiite-on-Shiite bloodshed in southern Iraq and Baghdad . As they spoke, firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr threatened to unleash his Mahdi Army militia against U.S. and Iraqi forces. Once again, it was Iran that stepped into the political vacuum and urged a halt to militia attacks into the heavily fortified Green Zone, where U.S. and Iraqi officials, including Petraeus and Crocker, have their offices. The Iranian foreign ministry called for ...
Editorial: Iran's 160,000 U.S. hostages
Post Date: 2008-04-09 22:03:28 by tom007
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Editorial: Iran's 160,000 U.S. hostages By MIDDLE EAST TIMES Published: April 09, 2008 TOOLBAR Print Story Add Comments U.S. ground forces in Iraq are held hostage to long and vulnerable supply lines up from Kuwait and the Gulf, all controlled by Shiite militias strongly sympathetic to the Islamic republic in neighboring Iran. Iran has quietly and consistently built up its ties to both these groups and to the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki which has developed a mind of its own quite unanticipated by the Bush administration strategists. It is impossible to believe that the White House looked with any kind of approval on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ...
Iran calls U.S. commander's Iraq report justification of "false strategies and failure"
Post Date: 2008-04-09 21:58:40 by tom007
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Iran calls U.S. commander's Iraq report justification of "false strategies and failure" www.chinaview.cn 2008-04-10 07:44:01 Print TEHRAN, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Iran said on Wednesday that the latest report of the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq to the Congress is a justification of Washington's "false strategies and the failures" in Iraq. Top U.S. military commander in Iraq David Petraeus on Tuesday accused Iran of fueling violence in Iraq, saying Tehran's influence on militias in Iraq remains the longest-term threat to the war-torn country. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said that such statements have got its roots in the lack of ...
Petraeus Says Iranian-Backed Groups Are Greatest Threat to Iraq
Post Date: 2008-04-09 21:57:15 by tom007
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Petraeus Says Iranian-Backed Groups Are Greatest Threat to Iraq By Nicholas Johnston and Tony Capaccio April 9 (Bloomberg) -- Shiite militia groups backed by Iran are the greatest long-term threat to Iraq's stability, according to Army General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq. The so-called ``special groups,'' which are funded, trained and armed by Iran, played a ``destructive role'' in the recent clashes between extremist militias and Iraqi government forces in Basra and Baghdad, Petraeus said. ``Iran has fueled the violence in a particularly damaging way,'' he told the House Armed Services Committee today in Washington, his second day of ...
Human Rights Watch: CIA sent 14 suspects to Jordan
Post Date: 2008-04-09 21:30:16 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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AMMAN, Jordan - A human rights group said Tuesday that the CIA transferred at least 14 terror suspects to Jordan for interrogation after Sept. 11, attacks. Human Rights Watch said in a new report that the U.S. ally in the Mideast served as a proxy jailer for the CIA until at least 2004. "The Bush administration claims that it has not transferred people to foreign custody for abusive interrogation," said Joanne Mariner, the group's terrorism and counterterrorism director. "But we've documented more than a dozen cases in which prisoners were sent to Jordan for torture." It said its 36-page report was based mainly on information from former Jordanian prisoners ...
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