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Latest Articles: War, War, War
A Submarine to Fight al-Qaida’s Navy
Post Date: 2008-04-03 14:52:17 by aristeides
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A Submarine to Fight al-Qaida’s Navy Posted on Apr 1, 2008 A U.S. Navy Virginia-class submarine. By Robert Scheer A trillion dollars here, a trillion dollars there, and soon you’re talking real money. But when it comes to reporting on what the Bush war legacy has cost American taxpayers, the media have been shockingly indifferent to the highest run-up in military spending since World War II. Even the devastating defense spending audit released Monday by the Government Accountability Office documenting the enormous waste in every single U.S. advanced weapons system failed to provoke the outrage it, and five equally scathing previous annual audits, deserved. This is not ...
Iran torpedoes US plans for Iraqi oil
Post Date: 2008-04-03 11:29:17 by robin
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Iran torpedoes US plans for Iraqi oil By M K Bhadrakumar In the highly competitive world of international politics, nation states very rarely miss an opportunity to crow about success stories. The opportunity comes rare, mostly by default, and seldom enduring. By any standards of showmanship, therefore, Tehran has set a new benchmark of reticence. By all accounts, Iran played a decisive role in hammering out the peace deal among the Shi'ite factions in Iraq. A bloody week of human killing on the Tigris River ended on Sunday. Details are sketchy, however, since they must come from non-Iranian sources. Tehran keeps silent about its role. The deal was brokered after negotiations in ...
NATO backs Bush's missile defense system
Post Date: 2008-04-03 11:22:31 by richard9151
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Talk about beard the bear...... Thu Apr 3, 8:15 AM ET BUCHAREST, Romania - President Bush won NATO's endorsement Thursday for his plan to build a missile defense system in Europe over Russian objections. The proposal also advanced with Czech officials announcing an agreement to install a missile tracking site for the system in their country. Bush also was undaunted in his drive to see the military alliance expanded further eastward, despite facing an immediate setback. Fellow NATO leaders rejected his appeal to allow former Soviet republics Ukraine and Georgia to get on a path toward membership. But Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, said the president will not ...
Feds lie about link between software piracy and terrorism
Post Date: 2008-04-03 05:58:10 by Kamala
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April 2, 2008 - 11:12 A.M. Feds lie about link between software piracy and terrorism 20 comments TAGS:intellectual property, IP, piracy, terrorism IT TOPICS:E-Business & Web 2.0, Government & Regulation, Security, Software, Windows & Microsoft Rate this Rated +48 74 Votes The U.S. Justice Department seems to believe that if you tell a big enough lie, people will listen. Here's the latest: Attorney General Michael Mukasey claims that terrorists sell pirated software as a way to finance their operations, without presenting a shred of evidence for his case. He's doing it to push through a controversial piece of legislation that's bad for you. In a talk last week ...
'A Soldier's Officer'
Post Date: 2008-04-02 22:22:40 by Peppa
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In a nondescript conference room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 1st Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside listened last week as an Army prosecutor outlined the criminal case against her in a preliminary hearing. The charges: attempting suicide and endangering the life of another soldier while serving in Iraq. Her hands trembled as Maj. Stefan Wolfe, the prosecutor, argued that Whiteside, now a psychiatric outpatient at Walter Reed, should be court-martialed. After seven years of exemplary service, the 25-year-old Army reservist faces the possibility of life in prison if she is tried and convicted. Military psychiatrists at Walter Reed who examined Whiteside after she recovered from her ...
Army Seeks New Ammo Suppliers for Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-04-02 20:12:41 by tom007
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Army Seeks New Ammo Suppliers for Afghanistan By Sharon Weinberger EmailApril 02, 2008 | 12:18:59 PMCategories: Guns Ammo Perhaps not surprisingly, U.S. Materiel Command is hunting around for new suppliers of ammunition for Afghanistan's military. Just as a reminder, the New York Times late last month revealed that the U.S. military had awarded a contract worth as much as $300 million to a company "led by a 22-year-old man whose vice president was a licensed masseur." The Times reported, that among other problems, the military lacked any standards for "nonstandard" ammunition (i.e. ammunition meant for Soviet-made weapons), so old, badly packaged equipment was ...
Top Officer Resigns Over Iran Strategy
Post Date: 2008-04-02 18:35:07 by SCPO Blackshoe Retired
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While this article is several weeks old, it brings a perspective on what has happened that many may not be aware of. Top Officer Resigns Over Iran Strategy Head of military actions in Mideast said U.S. would not attack Iran on his Watch By Michael Collins Piper Over the past several months, conservative devotees of Israel were calling for the head of Adm. William “Fox” Fallon, the tough-talking, no-nonsense chief of the U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for U.S. military operations in the Mideast, East Africa and Central Asia. On March 11 the conservatives got what they wanted. The admiral resigned his post, citing public controversy over his deep philosophical ...
Lieberman Rewrites History While Defending McCain, Claims U.S. Leaves Residual Troops In ‘Every Conflict’
Post Date: 2008-04-02 15:19:13 by robin
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Lieberman Rewrites History While Defending McCain, Claims U.S. Leaves Residual Troops In ‘Every Conflict’» Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has recently engaged in a frantic effort to “put the toothpaste back in the tube” regarding his notorious 100 years remark on the Iraq war. McCain says that since the U.S. has left troops in South Korea, for example, a prolonged presence in Iraq is also justified. Yesterday on Fox News, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) went even further than McCain, claiming that the U.S. leaves troops behind to “secure the peace” in “every conflict”: But the fact is we’re going to need, as we have after every conflict we’ve ...
Gen. Petraeus and a High-Level Suicide in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-04-02 06:45:54 by Ada
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The scourge of suicides among American troops in Iraq is a serious and seriously underreported problem. One of the few high-profile cases involves a much-admired Army colonel named Ted Westhusing -- who, in his 2005 suicide note, pointed a finger at a then little-known U.S. general named David Petraeus. Westhusing's widow, asked by a friend what killed this West Point scholar, had replied simply: "Iraq." Now there is a disturbing update on this case. Before putting a bullet through his head, Westhusing had been deeply disturbed by abuses carried out by American contractors in Iraq, including allegations that they had witnessed or even participated in the murder of Iraqis. ...
Heavy Troop Deployments Are Called Major Risk
Post Date: 2008-04-02 06:21:21 by Ada
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Readiness Is Dangerously Low, Army Chief Says Senior Army and Marine Corps leaders said yesterday that the increase of more than 30,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has put unsustainable levels of stress on U.S. ground forces and has put their readiness to fight other conflicts at the lowest level in years. In a stark assessment a week before Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is to testify on the war's progress, Gen. Richard A. Cody, the Army's vice chief of staff, said that the heavy deployments are inflicting "incredible stress" on soldiers and families and that they pose "a significant risk" to the nation's all-volunteer ...
Should Americans Die For South Ossetia?
Post Date: 2008-04-01 21:43:02 by richard9151
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01/04/08 "Worldnet" - -- In echo of Warren Harding's "A Return to Normalcy" speech of 1920, George Bush last week declared, "Normalcy is returning back to Iraq." The term seemed a mite ironic. For, as Bush spoke, Iraqis were dying in the hundreds in the bloodiest fighting in months in Basra, the Shia militias of Moqtada al Sadr were engaging Iraqi and U.S. troops in Sadr City, and mortar shells were dropping into the Green Zone. One begins to understand why Gen. Petraeus wants a "pause" in the pullout of U.S. forces, and why Bush agrees. This will leave more U.S. troops in Iraq on Inauguration Day 2009, than on Election Day 2006, when the ...
'I Walked, Ran and Crawled into Central Basra'
Post Date: 2008-04-01 19:59:27 by tom007
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'I Walked, Ran and Crawled into Central Basra' By Noah Shachtman EmailMarch 31, 2008 | 9:58:00 AMCategories: Iraq's Insanity, War Update 30absra600 Today's Times has a great first-person account from Qais Mizher, a former Iraqi Army officer who's now a reporter, photographer, and translator for the paper. Here's a snip: That is when we started to see terrible signs of the conflict in Basra. I counted about 20 civilian cars coming north with coffins strapped to their roofs, heading to bury their dead in the Shiite cemetery in the holy city of Najaf. My driver and I were unsure about the road ahead, so we flagged down a family driving in the opposite direction. As ...
Married troops can live together in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-04-01 18:20:22 by X-15
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BAGHDAD - When American soldiers get off duty in Iraq, the men usually return to their quarters, the women to theirs. But Staff Sgt. Marvin Frazier gets to go back to a small trailer with two pushed-together single beds that he shares with his wife. In a historic but little-noticed change in policy, the Army is allowing scores of husband-and-wife soldiers to live and sleep together in the war zone — a move aimed at preserving marriages, boosting morale and perhaps bolstering re-enlistment rates at a time when the military is struggling to fill its ranks five years into the fighting. "It makes a lot of things easier," said Frazier, 33, a helicopter maintenance supervisor in ...
Gen. Petraeus and a High-Level Suicide in Iraq (MORE ON COL. WESTHUSING "SUICIDE")
Post Date: 2008-04-01 17:26:47 by aristeides
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Gen. Petraeus and a High-Level Suicide in Iraq Posted April 1, 2008 | 12:34 PM (EST) The scourge of suicides among American troops in Iraq is a serious and seriously underreported problem. One of the few high-profile cases involves a much-admired Army colonel named Ted Westhusing -- who, in his 2005 suicide note, pointed a finger at a then little-known U.S. general named David Petraeus. Westhusing's widow, asked by a friend what killed this West Point scholar, had replied simply: "Iraq." Now there is a disturbing update on this case. Before putting a bullet through his head, Westhusing had been deeply disturbed by abuses carried out by American contractors in Iraq, ...
Iraq: More Proof that the Baker-Hamilton Commission Was Right and the Bush-McCain Surge Was Wrong
Post Date: 2008-04-01 10:53:27 by nolu_chan
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Iraq: More Proof that the Baker-Hamilton Commission Was Right and the Bush-McCain Surge Was Wrong David Fiderer Posted March 31, 2008 | 12:49 PM (EST) The surge is playing out exactly as the Baker-Hamilton Commission said it would. The "progess" in Iraq is ephemeral, if not cosmetic. As the Commission, also known as the Iraq Study Group, warned us: "Sustained increases in U.S. troop levels would not solve the fundamental cause of violence in Iraq, which is the absence of national reconciliation. A senior American general told us that adding U.S. troops might temporarily help limit violence in a highly localized area. However, past experience indicates that the violence ...
Presidential Determination: Eligibility of Kosovo to Receive Defense Articles
Post Date: 2008-04-01 10:22:13 by aristeides
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Presidential Determination No. 2008-15 of March 19, 2008 Eligibility of Kosovo to Receive Defense Articles and Defense Services Under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as Amended, and the Arms Export Control Act, as Amended Memorandum for the Secretary of State Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 503(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and section 3(a)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act, as amended, I hereby find that the furnishing of defense articles and defense services to Kosovo will strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace. You are authorized and directed to ...
Book details use of fear to support war on terror
Post Date: 2008-04-01 10:08:28 by bush_is_a_moonie
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A new book by David Altheide, Regents’ Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry at ASU, asserts that the U.S. government used the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., as a catalyst to unleash a sophisticated propaganda campaign. That campaign was designed to scare the American people into giving up civil liberties, as well as supporting the war in Iraq, Altheide says in his new book, titled “Terrorism and the Politics of Fear.” In the book, Altheide states his belief of how the U.S. government used the news media to promote fear and a sense of insecurity. The use of “entertaining fear,” ...
Delusional Bush Dances Toward War
Post Date: 2008-04-01 07:05:42 by graindrops
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Events of the last week offer a metaphorical glimpse at the delusion pervading President George W. Bush's White House and other enclaves of Iraq supporters in Washington. Bush and the First Lady spent last Monday clowning with the Easter Bunny (White House counsel Fred Fielding having donned the costume). At the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), war cheerleaders, dressed as academicians, were delivering a panegyric on how peaceful and stable the situation in Iraq had become. The "surge," they announced, had nipped a civil war in the bud. "The civil war is over," AEI's Fred Kagan, co-author of the surge, declared proudly. Brookings twins Michael O'Hanlon ...
The Lesson of Basra
Post Date: 2008-04-01 05:50:29 by Ada
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At the start of the military offensive launched last week into Basra by US-trained Iraqi army forces, President Bush called the action by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki "a bold decision." He added: "I would say this is a defining moment in the history of a free Iraq." That's true--but not in the way the President meant it. As the smoke clears over new rubble in Iraq's second city, at the heart of Iraq's oil region, it's apparent that the big winner of the Six-Day War in Basra are the forces of rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose Mahdi Army faced down the Iraqi armed forces not only in Basra, but in Baghdad, as well as in Kut, Amarah, Nasiriyah, and ...
A Third American War Crime in the Making
Post Date: 2008-03-31 22:21:45 by richard9151
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31/03/08 "ICH" -- -- The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran. If only America had an independent media and an opposition party. If there were a shred of integrity left in American political life, perhaps a third act of naked aggression--a third war crime under the Nuremberg standard--by the Bush Regime could be prevented. On March 30, the Russian News & Information Agency, Novosti, cited “a high-ranking security source: “The latest military intelligence data point to heightened US military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran.” ...
CNN: Iran helped broker ceasefire in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-03-31 18:44:28 by robin
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It was reported on Sunday that Iranian officials had helped broker a ceasefire agreement in the recent fighting between Iraq's government and radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Iran has close ties to both al-Sadr's movement and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and representatives of two of the parties in Maliki's coalition traveled to Iran to finalize the talks. CNN's Nic Robertson reported from Baghdad on Monday that the ceasefire appears to be holding and stores in Basra are reopening. Robertson also explained that the recent violence represented conflict among Shi'ite factions, which was why the Iranians were able to act as brokers. "There's a broad alliance ...
Weather War And More
Post Date: 2008-03-31 08:03:52 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Definitions First of all "War" is sort of a misnomer. War is generally thought of as conflict between 2 or more people(s). When Gov't uses "weather war" against people, especially 'Christian people' (Christian nation), the sheep, I mean people, tend to believe it is an "Act of God" or 'nature'. Secondly the word "Weather" generally tends to mean what 'nature'(God)gives US in terms of temp, wind, humidity, sunlight, clouds, rain, hurricanes, etc., you get the idea. What do you call it when Gov't gives it to you? Genocide? Destruction? There is no better way than for SATAN to "hide behind the Acts of God" ...
Rockets spread fear in Baghdad's Green Zone
Post Date: 2008-03-30 18:25:22 by richard9151
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Sun Mar 30, 1:48 PM ET BAGHDAD (AFP) - With volleys of mortars and rockets raining down daily on Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, security rules for soldiers and diplomats in the complex have taken on a chilling new urgency. Two US officials and two Iraqi guards of Sunni Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi have been killed since last Sunday, when the first waves of attacks began on the zone, seat of the Iraqi government and home to foreign embassies. Some staff members of the US embassy admit they are in a state of constant fear and prefer to sleep on cots inside the embassy building -- formerly a palace of Saddam Hussein -- than in their less-safe living quarters. Warning alarms ...
The Little Administration That Couldn't
Post Date: 2008-03-30 09:12:24 by graindrops
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No one was prepared for the storm when it hit. The levees meant to protect us had long since been breached and key officials had already left town. The well-to-do were assured of rescue, but for everyone else trapped inside the Superdome in a fast-flooding region, there was no evacuation plan in sight. The Bush Administration, of course, claimed that it was in control and the President was already assuring his key officials that they were doing a heck of a job. No, I'm not talking about post-Katrina New Orleans. That was so then. I'm talking about the housing and credit crunches, as well as the Bear Stearns bailout, that have given the term "bear market" new meaning. ...
Jon Snow's 'Hidden Iraq'
Post Date: 2008-03-30 01:54:32 by nolu_chan
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Jon Snow's 'Hidden Iraq' NOTICE: GRAPHIC IMAGES INCLUDED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVQoGKD2gA4 PART 1 ---------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLnabO32nJU PART 2 ---------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FMoimPAuDk PART 3 ---------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VD2tWtLTTs PART 4 ---------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGSzVrVrNNk PART 5 ---------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4rDUt4canA PART 6 ----------
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