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Latest Articles: War, War, War
LOOK AT THIS INTERVIEW OF BUSH IN ISRAEL. HE DIRECTLY SAYS HE INTENDS TO START WW111.
Post Date: 2008-01-22 20:21:40 by tom007
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New armored truck sees first Iraq death
Post Date: 2008-01-22 19:42:27 by richard9151
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1 hour, 13 minutes ago WASHINGTON - A soldier killed over the weekend south of Baghdad was the first American death in a roadside bomb attack on a newly introduced, heavily armored vehicle, military officials said Tuesday. The death, however, has not changed the Pentagon's mind about its plans to spend more than $22 billion to buy thousands of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles, known by the acronym MRAP, for the Army and Marine Corps to use in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell. "That attack has not ... caused anyone to question the vehicle's lifesaving capacity," Morrell said. "To the contrary, the attack reaffirms their ...
Hypothetical Attack On U.S. Outlined By China
Post Date: 2008-01-22 19:15:33 by Brian S
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In a hypothetical future scenario, the U.S. and China are poised to clash — likely over Taiwan. The democratic Republic of China, commonly called Taiwan — which America backs and the communist People’s Republic of China considers part of its territory — frequently irritates Chinese leaders with calls for greater independence from the mainland. But while the American military mulls its options, Chinese missiles hit runways, fuel lines, barracks and supply depots at U.S. Air Force bases in Japan and South Korea. Long-range warheads destroy American satellites, crippling Air Force surveillance and communication networks. A nuclear fireball erupts high above the Pacific ...
Lockheed Martin designates India-specific Fighting Falcon fighter as F-16IN
Post Date: 2008-01-22 17:15:38 by X-15
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Fort Worth, Texas: With the time for unveiling the RFPs, issued for the supply of 126 medium range multi role combat aircraft (MMRCA) to the Indian Air Force nearing, US defence contractor, Lockheed Martin, has stepped up the campaign for its fighter candidate, the F-16 Fighting Falcon. It announced Wednesday that as part of its submission for the IAF MMRCA programme it would make available an upgraded version of its F-16, freshly designated F-16IN, which would have 'super cruise' capability and also deploy top-of-the-line Active Electronic Scanned Array (AESA) radars. 'Super cruise' capability, so far, is only available with 5th generation fighters, such as the American ...
Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told
Post Date: 2008-01-22 16:08:32 by aristeides
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Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told Ian Traynor in Brussels Tuesday January 22, 2008 The Guardian The west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to halt the "imminent" spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, according to a radical manifesto for a new Nato by five of the west's most senior military officers and strategists. Calling for root-and-branch reform of Nato and a new pact drawing the US, Nato and the European Union together in a "grand strategy" to tackle the challenges of an increasingly brutal world, the former armed forces chiefs from the US, Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands insist ...
What is actually going on? In America, and, in the world?
Post Date: 2008-01-21 21:51:02 by richard9151
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I just put up three posts; UN Transformation Proposed To Create 'New World Order' By Andrew Grice in Delhi Is This The Big One? By Mike Whitney A Stimulus to What? Delusions Prevail in Washington By Paul Craig Roberts Now please read the following carefully to fully understand what is going on, and why. U.S. Senate Document No. 43, 73rd Congress, 1st Session (1934), to wit: "The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual so-called "ownership" is only by virtue of Government, i.e., law, amounting to mere "user" and use must be in acceptance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the State." ...
Bolton: US intelligence has become politicized
Post Date: 2008-01-21 19:35:03 by Dakmar
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The 2007 US National Intelligence Estimate, as well as the skewed reporting around it, is a sign of the "illegitimate politicization" of the American intelligence establishment, according to former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton. The document reportedly said Iran stopped its nuclear weapons production program in 2003. While "Iran's nuclear program is continuing and expanding," Bolton told The Jerusalem Post at a book-signing in a Tel Aviv Steimatzky on Sunday, "the NIE has had a devastating impact on our global efforts to try and constrain Iran." "I know the people who wrote this intelligence estimate," Bolton continued. ...
Baghdad, Al-Anbar Attacks Leave 2 U.S. Soldiers Dead
Post Date: 2008-01-21 12:30:25 by Brian S
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Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Two U.S. soldiers were killed in attacks in Iraq's western province of al-Anbar and Baghdad's Arab Jabour suburb, as American forces pursued an operation to rid the country of al-Qaeda fighters. Both incidents took place on Jan. 19, the U.S. military said today in separate e-mailed statements. A roadside bomb attack killed the soldier in Arab Jabour. The other soldier died while fighting in al-Anbar. Further details weren't available. The U.S. and Iraqi forces on Jan. 8 embarked on operation Phantom Phoenix, a campaign targeting al-Qaeda and other extremist elements inside Iraq. Arab Jabour was hit on the third day of the campaign and again on Jan. 16. ...
Gen Butt Naked confesses to nude killings
Post Date: 2008-01-21 06:55:08 by Ada
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A former warlord known as General Butt Naked has confessed to Liberia’s post-conflict reconciliation commission that his men killed 20,000 people during the country’s civil war. Gen Butt Naked confesses to nude massacre The commander earned his nom de guerre for charging into battle dressed only in his boots The feared rebel commander earned his nom de guerre for charging into battle dressed only in his boots, at the head of a gang of fighters known as the Butt Naked Battalion. The nude gunmen became known for terrorising villagers and sacrificing children whose hearts they would eat before going into battle during Liberia’s 14-year on-off civil war which ended in 2003. ...
Old Tom T. Hall has a song George W should hear
Post Date: 2008-01-21 00:36:56 by christine
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Our pal Lewis Bailey from Bailey Mountain, Georgia--Tabloid Baby's eyes on the South, the best news cameraman in the whole USA, and country music aficionado and tastemaker-- alerts us to to a powerful, heartbreaking and very timely new recording by country music legend and great American poet Tom T. Hall. The song is called A Hero in Harlan. Lewis tells us that "somebody should send this song to President Bush":
A HERO IN HARLAN
By: Dixie Hall & Tom T. Hall
A grey silver casket rolls off the airplane
The Stars and the Stripes are draped over the lid
Inside is the body of our litle brother
they say he's a soldier, but he's just a kid
We're' ...
Surge to Nowhere
Post Date: 2008-01-20 19:48:44 by tom007
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Surge to Nowhere Don't buy the hawks' hype. The war may be off the front pages, but Iraq is broken beyond repair, and we still own it. TOOLBOX Resize Text Save/Share + Digg Newsvine del.icio.us Stumble It! Reddit Facebook Print This E-mail This COMMENT washingtonpost.com readers have posted 61 comments about this item. View All Comments » POST A COMMENT You must be logged in to leave a comment. Log in | Register Why Do I Have to Log In Again? Log In Again? CLOSE We've made some updates to washingtonpost.com's Groups, MyPost and comment pages. We need you to verify your MyPost ID by logging in before you can post to the new pages. We apologize for the inconvenience. ...
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Post Date: 2008-01-20 18:37:51 by richard9151
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Drawing on the literature of combat, from Homer and Shakespeare to Erich Maria Remarque and Michael Herr, Hedges discusses how human beings are conditioned to embrace what he calls "the myth of war" -- the idea that combat is noble, selfless, and glorious. In his new book War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Hedges reveals the reality of war, which he knows firsthand, to be the destruction of culture, the perversion of human desire, and the embrace, ultimately, of death over life. Audio Video HERE: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19111.htm Cambridge Forum Wednesday, January 22, 2003 The First Parish Church in Cambridge Click for Full Text!
Al Qaeda and the "War on Terrorism"
Post Date: 2008-01-20 12:52:25 by robin
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Al Qaeda and the "War on Terrorism" By Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, January 20, 2008 The following text was first published in Italian in: Giuletto Chiesa (Editor), Zero, Perché la versione ufficiale sull' 11/9 è un Falso [Zero: Why the Official Version on 9/11 is a Falsehood], Piemme, Casale Monferrato, 2007. A detailed analysis of the relevant issues covered in this article is also contained in the author's book America’s "War on Terrorism", Global Research, 2005IntroductionOne of the main objectives of war propaganda is to "fabricate an enemy". The "outside enemy" personified by Osama bin Laden is ...
Anti-war group says war crimes are "encouraged"
Post Date: 2008-01-20 10:15:06 by Ada
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WATERTOWN, NY - "I was messed up in the head. It was okay for me. I laughed afterwards. We all did. It's just the way things go." Iraq war veteran Jon Turner said it was almost expected of him to pull the trigger on people who didn't need to die. So he did. "It was my decision," Turner said. "I made it. Now I have to live with the fact I see someone's eyes screaming at me after I shot them." But Turner says it wasn't his choice to be encouraged to do it from higher ranking officers. He and three other veterans speaking out Saturday at the Different Drummer Cafe in Watertown said committing war crimes is not only the way things go, but ...
Charity draws fire for paying generals
Post Date: 2008-01-19 21:33:54 by kiki
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Retired Army Gen. Tommy Franks was paid $100,000 — out of donations made to wounded veterans — for allowing his name to be used on fundraising appeals by a charity that has come under increasing scrutiny for the way it handles its money. Lawmakers questioned the ethics of the Coalition to Salute America’s Heroes Foundation not only for using donors’ money to pay Franks, but for failing to disclose to potential donors who received the mail solicitations that Franks was paid for his endorsement. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said Franks has now disassociated himself from the Coalition and asked that his ...
Discontent Surging In Iraq
Post Date: 2008-01-19 21:04:20 by kiki
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BAGHDAD — In the depths of a strangely cold winter in the Middle East, Iraqis complain that the lights are not on, the kerosene heaters are without fuel and the water doesn't flow _ and they blame the government. And with the war nearing its fifth anniversary, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is feeling the discontent as well from the most powerful political centers in the majority Shiite community. It's a pincer movement of domestic anger that yet again could threaten al-Maliki's hold on his Green Zone office. "Where's the kerosene and the water?" asked Amjad Kazim, a 56-year-old Shiite who lives in eastern Baghdad. "We hear a lot of promises but we see ...
Why does Johnny come marching homeless?
Post Date: 2008-01-19 20:37:04 by robin
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By ERIN McCLAM, AP National Writer2 hours, 13 minutes ago Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran. There was a happy homecoming, but then an accident — car crash, broken collarbone. And then a move east, close to his wife's new job but away from his best friends. And then self-destruction: He would gun his motorcycle to 100 mph and try to stand on the seat. He would wait for his wife to leave in the morning, draw the blinds and open up whatever bottle of booze was closest. He would pull out his gun, a ...
Former Bush official: Waterboarding is torture
Post Date: 2008-01-19 13:54:40 by robin
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Tom Ridge: Waterboarding is torture ‘No doubt,’ says Tom Ridge, first Homeland Security secretaryThe Associated Pressupdated 4:22 p.m. PT, Fri., Jan. 18, 2008WASHINGTON - The first secretary of the Homeland Security Department says waterboarding is torture."There's just no doubt in my mind — under any set of rules — waterboarding is torture," Tom Ridge said Friday in an interview. Ridge had offered the same opinion earlier in the day to members of the American Bar Association at a homeland security conference."One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture," ...
Friday: 1 US Soldier, 94 Iraqis Killed, 103 Wounded
Post Date: 2008-01-18 20:03:01 by Brian S
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Updated at 6:01 p.m. EST, Jan. 19, 2008 At least 94 Iraqis were killed and 103 more were wounded in the latest attacks. The worst violence took place in Nassiriya and Basra, where a Shi’ite sect staged attacks just ahead of the culmination of Ashuraa observances. Meanwhile, Turkey claimed to have destroyed 60 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq. Also, one American soldier was killed during an IED attack yesterday in Baghdad. The Soldiers of Heaven (Jund al-Samaa) sect returned to the headlines today after clashes between sect members, who are Shi’ites, and security forces left 15 dead and 82 wounded in Nassiriya. Last Ashuraa, similar clashes left hundreds ...
Blowback In The War On Terror
Post Date: 2008-01-18 17:49:11 by richard9151
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18/01/08 "The Guardian" -- -January 15, 2008 -- Can the war against global terrorism be won? Or do two badly bent prongs in America's anti-terrorist campaign, in Afghanistan and Iraq, suggest that the war is unwinnable, in part because the US has engaged in unrealistic realpolitik, flouted international law and disregarded human rights? Anyone saying that human rights should inform political and military strategies is likely to be dismissed as a crank. Know-alls would probably advise the crank that politics and war are arts of the possible - or impossible - and that the end justifies the means, etc. But the charter of the United Nations, signed soon after the end of the ...
Local peace activists sentenced in federal court
Post Date: 2008-01-18 16:29:07 by Ferret Mike
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How do you keep a peace activist from breaking the law if she embraces the standard penalty: community service? That was the challenge facing assistant U.S. attorney Bud Fitzgerald in federal court on Thursday afternoon. Eugene peace activist Peg Morton — a 77-year-old Quaker who has been arrested at least seven times since 1989 — was one of four protesters who refused to leave Sen. Gordon Smith’s office on Oct. 12. They targeted Smith because of their concern about his vote for funding the war in Iraq. They were cited for failing to comply with lawful directions and escorted from the Wayne L. Morse U.S Courthouse, the new federal building. Contending with the other three ...
White House balks at first question from Raw Story: Did the surge set back Iraq's plan by five years?
Post Date: 2008-01-18 14:16:36 by robin
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White House balks at first question from Raw Story: Did the surge set back Iraq's plan by five years?01/18/2008 @ 9:46 am Filed by Eric Brewer The following is the first White House report from Eric Brewer, who will periodically attend White House press briefings for Raw Story. Brewer is also a contributor at BTC News. He was the first person to ask about the Downing Street memo at a White House briefing. When the Iraqi defense minister — whose name is either Abdul Kadir (according to the NY Times) or Abdul-Kadir al-Obaidi (according to the Guardian U.K.) or Abdul Kadir Muhammed Jasim (according to the U.S. Department of Defense) — said on Monday that Iraq would not be ...
Opium fields spread across Iraq as farmers try to make ends meet
Post Date: 2008-01-18 13:36:41 by FOH
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The cultivation of opium poppies whose product is turned into heroin is spreading rapidly across Iraq as farmers find they can no longer make a living through growing traditional crops. Afghan with experience in planting poppies have been helping farmers switch to producing opium in fertile parts of Diyala province, once famous for its oranges and pomegranates, north- east of Baghdad. At a heavily guarded farm near the town of Buhriz, south of the provincial capital Baquba, poppies are grown between the orange trees in order to hide them, according to a local source. The shift by Iraqi farmers to producing opium was first revealed by The Independent last May and is a very recent ...
Blackwater's Latest Contract
Post Date: 2008-01-18 11:56:05 by angle
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Blackwater has had a rough year PR-wise, as the company has faced allegations ranging from murder to tax evasion, while also managing to kill the New York Times' possibly feral pooch Hentish along the way. But, in the aftermath, Erik Prince's companies certainly haven't suffered for business. In late September, less than two weeks after Blackwater contractors opened fire on a Baghdad street, killing 17 civilians, the company's air cargo and transport subsidiary, Presidential Airways, was awarded a 4-year, $92 million contract by the Pentagon to provide its services in central and southern Asia. And, just yesterday, the agency announced that it was throwing the company ...
Sailors quit as dud frigates unfit for battle (Australia)
Post Date: 2008-01-18 00:02:37 by X-15
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AUSTRALIA'S naval defence is in tatters with claims that despite a $1.4 billion "upgrade", frontline fighting ships are unable to be sent into battle. For the first time a navy insider close to the 4000-tonne Adelaide class guided missile frigates upgrade project has provided details of one of the biggest defence scandals in the nation's history. The whistleblower told The Daily Telegraph that the situation is so dire that sailors are quitting the navy because their ships can not be deployed to the Middle East or other conflict zones. And senior officials now admit that the 1997 frigate upgrade project was a "debacle" created by the Howard government's ...
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