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Goddamn U.S. soldiers
Post Date: 2008-03-03 20:57:32 by X-15
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Joint Chiefs Chairman Emphasizes U.S. Role in Pakistan (ADM. MULLEN IN ISLAMABAD)
Post Date: 2008-03-03 17:21:54 by aristeides
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Joint Chiefs Chairman Emphasizes U.S. Role in Pakistan By THOM SHANKER Published: March 4, 2008 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, arrived here Monday to emphasize America’s eagerness to help Pakistan in its fight against foreign terrorists and home-grown militants operating in the northwestern tribal areas. Admiral Mullen said the United States was willing to offer assistance for such things as training, transport helicopters and night-combat operations, but stressed that he was carrying no specific proposals on this visit and would await formal requests from Pakistan’s military. The trip here by Admiral Mullen, ...
The $3,000,000,000,000 War is a Domestic Issue
Post Date: 2008-03-03 17:09:32 by robin
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As our seemingly endless primary process reaches the homestretch and the focus shifts to the general election, we need to pull the plug on the media's disturbing habit of acting as if foreign policy and domestic policy are completely separate entities -- a pair of high stakes board games that can only be taken off the shelf and played one at a time. To hear the media tell it, combining the two would make about as much sense as using your Monopoly pieces to play Risk. But while there is almost nothing about the Iraq war that can be labeled a success, we can declare that it has been exceedingly successful in showing how intertwined foreign and domestic policy actually are. In the book ...
US Launches Missile Attack in Somalia
Post Date: 2008-03-03 12:33:42 by PnbC
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U.S. launches missile attack in Somalia Pentagon officials say military going after al-Qaida suspect in border town MSNBC News Services updated 7:47 a.m. PT, Mon., March. 3, 2008 MOGADISHU, Somalia - Pentagon officials said Monday the United States launched an air strike in Somalia to go after a terrorist suspect. In the strike early Monday, Somali police said three missiles hit a Somali town held by Islamic extremists, destroying a home and seriously injuring eight people. A Pentagon official said the U.S. military was going after an al-Qaida suspect in the town. As yet, there is no word on whether the suspect was hit. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official ...
Ahmadinejad: US should leave Iraq
Post Date: 2008-03-03 07:24:11 by tom007
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Ahmadinejad: US should leave Iraq 36 minutes ago BAGHDAD - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday lashed out at the United States during an unprecedented trip to Iraq and demanded that major powers leave the region. ADVERTISEMENT The hardline Iranian leader also dismissed U.S. allegations that Iran was funding and training extremists in Iraq, a fellow Shiite Muslim-majority country. Ahmadinejad, the first Iranian president to visit Iraq, said the foreign presence in the Arab country was an "insult to the regional nations and a humiliation." "We believe that the major powers who have come to the region from thousands of kilometers away should respect the will of ...
Israeli Extra-Judicial Executions
Post Date: 2008-03-03 06:40:09 by Stephen Lendman
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Israeli Extra-Judicial Executions - by Stephen Lendman At 8:50AM on February 27, an Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a civilian microbus on the coastal road near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Six members of the Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades were in it at the time. Five of them were killed. The sixth one was seriously injured. Twenty minutes later, another aircraft attacked a vehicle in which other Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades members were traveling. They escaped harm by fleeing before missiles struck their car and destroyed it. On March 1, Hamas reported that Israelis killed 91 Palestinians in February, 83 in Gaza and eight in West Bank, and the killing continues to escalate. ...
5 Years Ago: Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld Scoffed at Dangers of Postwar Iraq
Post Date: 2008-03-03 06:04:12 by Ada
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Wolfowitz told Congress, three weeks before the invasion, that the country could be quickly secured with 100,000 or fewer troops and "spent much of the hearing knocking down published estimates of the costs of war and rebuilding, saying the upper range of $95 billion was too high." NEW YORK (February 28, 2008) -- Today marked the fifth anniversary of the day deputy Pentagon chief Paul Wolfowitz assured Congress that the U.S. would need no more than 100,000 troops to secure postwar Iraq and get the hell out. Here's how The New York Times reported it at the time: "In a contentious exchange over the costs of war with Iraq, the Pentagon's second-ranking official today ...
Army falling apart from within
Post Date: 2008-03-02 19:05:32 by robin
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Army falling apart from within I cannot reveal who I am for fear of losing my pension. Suffice it to say that I am a field grade officer in the infantry, United States Army. The troops are on the verge of open revolt. The higher ups make us pay for our own sub standard body armor, food and now uniforms. The services supplied by government contractors to those who put their lives on the line are not fit for'hajjis'. Now the ammunition we are receiving is not up to par. The troops feel that they are being left hanging in the wind to die. Instances like Abu Graihb are on the uprise. The general mood of the Iraqis is hostile in the extreme. Things have reached a breaking point. If you ...
Karl Rove spins Iraq war into ‘Al Qaida Country’ with soaring oil prices
Post Date: 2008-03-02 14:00:11 by robin
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Karl Rove spins Iraq war into ‘Al Qaida Country’ with soaring oil prices By: Logan Murphy on Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 AM - PST Karl Rove played a leading role in the demise of the Republican party, and now as a FOXNews pundit he has been desperately trying to rewrite history and on this morning’s Fox News Sunday, he was laying down some of his patented fact-free spin on Iraq, Al Qaeda and the 2008 presidential campaigns. Wallace pointed out that the American people are solidly against this war by every poll known to man, but Rove acting as a propagandist frames it this way. Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather) Rove: If we were to give up ...
RFID Technology
Post Date: 2008-03-02 09:57:41 by YertleTurtle
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How Good People Turned Evil; New Images From Abu Ghraib
Post Date: 2008-03-01 16:05:31 by robin
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Warning: Disturbing content, not safe for work Wired: Psychologist Philip Zimbardo has seen good people turn evil, and he thinks he knows why. Zimbardo will speak Thursday afternoon at the TED conference, where he plans to illustrate his points by showing a three-minute video, obtained by Wired.com, that features many previously unseen photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (disturbing content). In March 2006, Salon.com published 279 photos and 19 videos from Abu Ghraib, one of the most extensive documentations to date of abuse in the notorious prison. Zimbardo claims, however, that many images in his video — which he obtained while serving as an expert witness for an Abu ...
Iraq Casualties Rise Again After Qaeda Bombs
Post Date: 2008-03-01 12:48:30 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Violent civilian deaths in Iraq rose 36 percent in February from the previous month after a series of large-scale bombings blamed on al Qaeda, Iraqi government figures showed on Saturday. A total of 633 civilians died violently in February, compared with 466 in January, according to figures released by Iraq's interior, defense and health ministries. It was the first increase after six consecutive months of falling casualty tolls. Despite its sharp rise, the February 2008 figure was still dramatically lower than the 1,645 civilians who died violently in the same month a year ago. A total of 701 civilians were wounded, compared with 2,700 a year ago. Declining ...
Even kitchens are fire hazard at new U.S. Embassy in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-02-29 23:08:45 by kiki
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WASHINGTON — None of the 26 buildings in the new $740 million U.S. Embassy complex in Baghdad is ready to be occupied. Fire alarms intended to safeguard more than 1,000 U.S. government employees aren't working. Kitchens in some of the buildings are fire hazards. A senior State Department official in December certified that embassy construction was "substantially complete," but department inspectors found "major deficiencies" at the unoccupied embassy, according to their inspection report, which Rep. Henry Waxman , D-Calif., released Friday. McClatchy reported earlier this week that the new chief of the State Department's embassy-building arm, Richard ...
Dems Iraq Plans Would Leave Tens Of Thousands In Iraq
Post Date: 2008-02-29 20:18:57 by richard9151
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February 29, 2008 10:51 AM Despite the rhetoric of the Democratic presidential candidates, significant numbers of U.S. troops will remain in Iraq regardless who wins in November. In their final push to win the nomination, Sens. Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Clinton of New York are repeating their vow to start withdrawing U.S. forces shortly after taking office. But both candidates draw a distinction between "combat" troops, whom they want to withdraw, and "noncombat" troops, who will stay to battle terrorists, protect the U.S. civilian presence and possibly train and mentor Iraqi security forces. Click for Full Text!
Economist: War to cost $3.5 trillion -- Nobel economist tells Congress about impact of war that White House said would cost $60B
Post Date: 2008-02-29 20:09:33 by richard9151
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Friday, February 29, 2008 WASHINGTON -- The Iraq war will cost Americans between $3 trillion and $5 trillion, including military spending, broader economic costs and decades of benefits and medical care for combat veterans, a Nobel prize-winning economist told the Joint Economic Committee on Thursday. The upper end of the estimate is nearly double what the same economist, Joseph Stiglitz, projected two years ago. He attributed the dramatic increase to the continuing intensity of the war, which began five years ago next month, and the likelihood that operations there would continue for at least another year. The war's gravest toll has been paid in blood. Fighting in Iraq has so far ...
US: Vets Break Silence on War Crimes
Post Date: 2008-02-29 19:49:50 by richard9151
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 28 (IPS) - U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries. "The war in Iraq is not covered to its potential because of how dangerous it is for reporters to cover it," said Liam Madden, a former Marine and member of the group Iraq Veterans Against the War. "That's left a lot of misconceptions in the minds of the American public about what the true nature of military occupation looks like." Iraq Veterans Against the War argues that well-publicised incidents of U.S. brutality like the Abu Ghraib prison ...
Ben Griffin: Former SAS, Banned Speech to Anti-War Rally -- Ben Griffin speaks to World Against War rally before being gagged by UK Government
Post Date: 2008-02-29 19:46:07 by richard9151
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"As of 1940 hrs 29/02/08 I have been placed under an injunction preventing me from speaking publicly and publishing material gained as a result of my service in UKSF (SAS). I will be continuing to collect evidence and opinion on British Involvement in extraordinary rendition, torture, secret detentions, extra judicial detention, use of evidence gained through torture, breaches of the Geneva Conventions, breaches of International Law and failure to abide by our obligations as per UN Convention Against Torture. I am carrying on regardless. " Ben Griffin, Former UK Special forces trooper Ben Griffin, the ex-SAS trooper who this week revealed the extensive British collaboration with ...
Court gags ex-SAS man who made torture claims
Post Date: 2008-02-29 19:19:55 by robin
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A former SAS soldier was served with a high court order yesterday preventing him from making fresh disclosures about how hundreds of Iraqis and Afghans captured by British and American special forces were rendered to prisons where they faced torture. Ben Griffin could be jailed if he makes further disclosures about how people seized by special forces were allegedly mistreated and ended up in secret prisons in breach of the Geneva conventions and international law. Griffin, 29, left the British army in 2005 after three months in Baghdad, saying he disagreed with the "illegal" tactics of US troops. He told a press conference hosted by the Stop the War Coalition this week that ...
U.S. Air Force Censors Blogs
Post Date: 2008-02-29 17:08:13 by Ferret Mike
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The newly created "Cyber Command" Now controls the Air Force Network Operations Center and bans blog content. (Source: Air Force) The Army reviews its soldiers blogs to be redacted for sensitive information before soldiers can publish them. This is meant to protect U.S. secrets from accidentally being exposed. However, soldiers are welcome to speak freely in their blogs and visit blog sites. The Air Force feels differently, and states that blogs and various other news entities are "not legitimate new sources." The new policy is partly due to new leadership. Before the Air Force's internet issues were handled individually by each major command. These separate ...
How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib - Must Read Article
Post Date: 2008-02-29 09:53:13 by tom007
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How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib By Kim Zetter Email 02.28.08 | 12:00 AM As an expert witness in the defense of an Abu Ghraib guard, Philip Zimbardo had access to many images (NSFW) of abuse taken by the guards. His TED presentation puts together a short video of some of the unpublished photos, with sound effects added by Zimbardo. Many of the images are explicit and gruesome, depicting nudity, degradation, simulated sex acts and guards posing with corpses. Viewer discretion is advised. Courtesy Philip Zimbardo View slideshow (NSFW) MONTEREY, California -- Psychologist Philip Zimbardo has seen good people turn evil, and he thinks he knows why. Zimbardo will speak ...
Abu Ghraib Photo - Descretion Advised - Is the Women and IDF MP?
Post Date: 2008-02-29 09:19:19 by tom007
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Terrorized by 'War on Terror' -- How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America
Post Date: 2008-02-28 20:45:24 by richard9151
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28/02/08 "Washington Post" -- -- 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 wild dreams entertained by the fanatical perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks when they were ...
Turkey Resists U.S. Demands That It End Offensive In Iraq
Post Date: 2008-02-28 14:57:41 by Brian S
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ANKARA: Turkish leaders on Thursday again resisted calls by the U.S. defense secretary, Robert Gates, for a swift end to Turkey's offensive against Kurdish guerrillas, offering no timetable about when they would withdraw Turkish troops from northern Iraq. Gates came to the Turkish capital with a stern message that the Turkish winter offensive in the mountains of northern Iraq should wrap up within days, perhaps as soon as early March. But after three hours of meetings with senior civilian and military leaders on Thursday, Gates said he had received no assurances that the Turkish offensive would be over by then. In fact, the Turkish minister of defense, Vecdi Gonul, implied that ...
As of February 28, 2008: 4,456 Dead American Soldiers - 72,043 Battlefield Casualties - 100,000+ American Veterans Disabled - Number of Iraqi Deaths Due to US Invasion: 1,173,743
Post Date: 2008-02-28 09:10:10 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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As of February 28, 2008: 4,456 Dead American Soldiers - 72,043 Battlefield Casualties - 100,000+ American Veterans Disabled - Number of Iraqi Deaths Due to US Invasion: 1,173,743 antiwar.com/casualties/ warcomeshome.org/content/...ties-iraq-and-afghanistan www.vdare.com/roberts/061025_fault.htm www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Department of Malicious Falsehoods
Post Date: 2008-02-28 06:14:34 by Ada
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The Public Affairs Office at the Department of Defense has long figured as a redoubt for the Neoconservatives. At times, I’ve wondered about the name “Public Affairs.” Don’t they really mean something more along the lines of “Department for the Political Instruction of Cadres”? I first marveled at their brazen misconduct and proclivity for heavily ornamented deceit when Seymour Hersh came out with a major story in the New Yorker describing the “Cooper Green” program. The program operated under the authority of Stephen Cambone and with an okay from Donald Rumsfeld and it authorized the use of illegal interrogation techniques, which we subsequently ...
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