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Latest Articles: War, War, War
US casualties hit new high in Iraq (Bush's Plan is Working)
Post Date: 2007-11-06 20:15:20 by tom007
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US casualties hit new high in Iraq By North America Correspondent Michael Rowland Posted 4 hours 13 minutes ago Casualties up: the military says more troops are in harm's way because of the surge strategy (File photo) Casualties up: the military says more troops are in harm's way because of the surge strategy (File photo) (Reuters: Damir Sagolj ) This year has proved to be the deadliest year for US troops in Iraq so far, with the death toll now the highest since the March 2003 invasion. At least 852 American military personnel have died this year, according to figures compiled by Associated Press. Five US soldiers died on Monday in two separate roadside bomb attacks. The high ...
Just Heard Kucinich Resolution has PASSED 217 to 194 [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-11-06 19:26:28 by tom007
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Randi Rhodes air America Hope this is true.
Former DHB chief Brooks will stay in jail ( sold faulty military vests)
Post Date: 2007-11-06 19:00:16 by scrapper2
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A federal judge denied David H. Brooks bail Tuesday, citing concerns about his access to immense wealth and the possibility that he could obstruct justice from within the walls of his 58th-floor Upper East Side highrise. "I think the government has established that there is a serious risk of flight," U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert said during a hearing in Central Islip. "I don't have a clue what this man's assets are." Brooks, who arrived in jail looking tired and unshaven in an orange jumpsuit, allegedly looted his former company, DHB Enterprises Inc, of almost $200 million to pay for a lavish lifestyle that included extensive use of a private jet charged ...
Hagel Suggests Possibility Of Military Draft
Post Date: 2007-11-06 18:06:33 by Brian S
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LINCOLN - Speaking today before an audience of Lincoln High School students, U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel warned that the nation may have to turn to compulsory military service "or some kind of draft" to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.)Questioned after his speech, Hagel said he is not calling for reinstatement of the draft, but the growing difficulty of maintaining an adequate volunteer military force is "a reality." "I'm just stating the obvious," he said. "At some point we're going to have to made a decision on how to attract a quality force." Hagel's appearance at Lincoln High School was arranged as part ...
Iraq: Millions Trapped in Their Own Country
Post Date: 2007-11-06 11:38:43 by Alan Chapman
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At least 5 million Iraqis have fled their homes due to the violence under the U.S.-led occupation, but half of them are unable to leave the country, according to well-informed estimates. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are more than 4.4 million displaced Iraqis, an estimate that many workers among refugees find conservative. The UNHCR announced last week that at present 2,000 Iraqis are fleeing their homes every day. Most of them have received direct threats from death squads or militias. The provinces that have suffered the greatest displacement are the largely Sunni Baghdad, Diyala, al-Anbar, and Salahadeen in central Iraq. Members of many ...
2.3 million in Iraq were driven from homes
Post Date: 2007-11-06 11:37:29 by Alan Chapman
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The Shiite militia's threat came in a typed letter tossed at Mohammed Abdul-Wahab's door: "Leave this house within 48 hours or you will face death." The Sunni government worker did just that — fleeing his ancestral home in a mostly Shiite area of Baghdad with his wife and 2-year-old son. Now, struggling to pay rent higher than his salary, Abdul-Wahab is among the nearly 2.3 million people the Iraqi Red Crescent says have been driven from their neighborhoods as Iraq is increasingly carved up along sectarian lines. The number of internally displaced people has swelled in Iraq since the beginning of 2007, when the group counted less than half a million. A new report ...
5 US Soldiers Killed, Making 2007 Deadliest Year of Iraq War for US Troops
Post Date: 2007-11-06 10:40:33 by Brian S
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By LAUREN FRAYER The Associated Press BAGHDAD The U.S. military on Tuesday announced the deaths of five more soldiers, making 2007 the deadliest year for U.S. troops despite a recent downturn, according to an Associated Press count. At least 852 American military personnel have died in Iraq so far this year the highest annual toll since the war began in March 2003, according to AP figures. The grim milestone passed despite a sharp drop in U.S. and Iraqi deaths here in recent months, after a 30,000-strong U.S. force buildup. There were 39 deaths in October, compared to 65 in September and 84 in August. Five U.S. soldiers were killed Monday in two separate roadside bomb attacks, said ...
POLL: Views on Iraq Unchanged Despite Better Casualty Reports;
Post Date: 2007-11-06 10:38:24 by Brian S
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Sixty Percent Think U.S. Forces Should Be DecreasedANALYSIS by PEYTON M. CRAIGHILL Nov. 6, 2007 — Reports of fewer casualties in Iraq haven't altered most Americans' perceptions of the war: Fifty-nine percent still don't think the United States is making significant progress restoring civil order there, and a record six in 10 want the level of U.S. forces reduced. Those results in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll seem to reflect a continued hardening of attitudes on Iraq. Views on progress are unchanged from early September, and they haven't been positive since December 2005, shortly after the Iraqi elections. Click here for PDF with charts and data table. ...
Punishing Gaza
Post Date: 2007-11-06 06:13:42 by Stephen Lendman
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Punishing Gaza - by Stephen Lendman On September 20, Haaretz reported: "The security cabinet voted unanimously yesterday to increase sanctions against the Hamas-run Gaza Strip (and declare) the region a 'hostile entity.' " A further statement read: "We will reduce the amount of megawattage we provide to the Strip, and Hamas will have to decide whether to provide electricity to hospitals or weapons lathes." Israeli officials also decided to punish Gazans by restricting: -- fuel as well as electricity from Israel to Gaza; -- the passage of goods and people through border crossings that are already severely restricted; and -- visits to prisoners even further ...
U.S. Candidates Grapple
Post Date: 2007-11-05 21:00:23 by tom007
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U.S. Candidates Grapple With Pakistan Crisis By SUSAN DAVIS November 5, 2007 6:40 p.m. WASHINGTON -- Leading Democratic and Republican presidential candidates collectively condemned Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule, but levied varying degrees of blame against the Bush administration for not using stronger diplomatic efforts to prevent the crackdown against dissidents. The unfolding international crisis has forced the candidates to pivot from what had been the big foreign policy issues: the Iraq war and Iran's nuclear program. The Republican hopefuls largely defended the Bush administration's steps so far, while Democrats voiced criticism. ...
Robert Cray: Twenty
Post Date: 2007-11-05 20:26:51 by kiki
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The Freedom Agenda FizzlesHow George Bush and Condoleezza Rice made a mess of Pakistan.
Post Date: 2007-11-05 20:01:52 by tom007
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The Freedom Agenda FizzlesHow George Bush and Condoleezza Rice made a mess of Pakistan. By Fred Kaplan Posted Monday, Nov. 5, 2007, at 7:18 PM ET Condoleezza Rice and George Bush. Click image to expand.Condoleezza Rice and George Bush Now we've really got problems. The state of emergency in Pakistan signals yet another low point in President George W. Bush's foreign policy—a stark demonstration of his paltry influence and his bankrupt principles. More than that, the crackdown locks us in a crisis—a potentially dangerous dynamic—from which there appears to be no escape route. For much of last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other top U.S. officials ...
Inevitable Turkey-Iran-Syria-Russia alliance
Post Date: 2007-11-05 16:11:48 by aristeides
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Inevitable Turkey-Iran-Syria-Russia alliance By Ata ATUN Monday , 05 November 2007 The Middle East has acquired immense strategic value as one of the determining fulcrums in the global balance of power due to its being the world's largest known storehouse of low-cost energy supplies. The region's geopolitical importance, the kaleidoscopic nature of politics among its states, the presence of volatile social and political forces within them and the interference of world superpowers all insure that the region will remain a potentially explosive source of tension for years. Emboldened by its military strength after World War II, Moscow prepared to carve up its southern neighbors. It ...
New Satellite Surveillance System Was Key Israeli Tool In Syria Raid
Post Date: 2007-11-05 15:50:12 by aristeides
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New Satellite Surveillance System Was Key Israeli Tool In Syria Raid David A. Fulghum, Robert Wall and Douglas Barrie/Aviation Week & Space Technology Israel pulled out all the stops technologically in its recent raid on Syria, employing several new intelligence-gathering and strike systems in a chain of events stretching from satellite observations to precision bombing of a target thought to be a nuclear facility. Syria's internal politics might have contributed to the apparent success of the Sept. 6 mission. The target was so highly classified in Damascus that the military wasn't briefed and, therefore, air defenses were unprepared, says an Israeli official. But the ...
'USAF struck Syrian nuclear site'
Post Date: 2007-11-05 15:44:46 by aristeides
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'USAF struck Syrian nuclear site' By JPOST.COM STAFF The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site quoted Israeli and Arab sources as saying that two US jets armed with tactical nuclear weapons carried out an attack on a suspected nuclear site under construction. The sources were quoted as saying that Israeli F-15 and F-16 jets provided cover for the US planes. The sources added that each US plane carried one tactical nuclear weapon and that the site was hit by one bomb and was totally destroyed. At the beginning of October, Israel's military censor began to allow the local media to report on ...
From the Desk of (The Humanly Dispicable WAR CRIMINAL WHO NEEDS TO HANG) Donald Rumsfeld.
Post Date: 2007-11-04 20:06:51 by tom007
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From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld. In Sometimes-Brusque 'Snowflakes,' He Shared Worldview, Shaped Policy By Robin Wright Washington Post Staff Writer 11/01/07 "Washington Post" -- -- In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and wrote of the need to "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" and develop "bumper sticker statements" to rally public support for an increasingly unpopular war. The memos, often referred to as "snowflakes," shed light on Rumsfeld's brusque management style and on his efforts to address ...
Robert Fisk: Somebody is trying to provoke a civil war in Iraq.
Post Date: 2007-11-04 19:25:12 by tom007
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Robert Fisk: Somebody is trying to provoke a civil war in Iraq. The real question I ask myself is: who are these people who are trying to provoke the civil war? Now the Americans will say it's Al Qaeda, it's the Sunni insurgents. It is the death squads. Many of the death squads work for the Ministry of Interior. Who runs the Ministry of Interior in Baghdad? Who pays the Ministry of the Interior? Who pays the militia men who make up the death squads? We do, the occupation authorities. Reporter: Tony Jones TONY JONES: Well, Robert Fisk is one of the most experienced observers of the Middle East and in his latest book, 'The Great War for Civilisation - the Conquest of the Middle ...
Claims and Facts: Rhetoric, Reality and the War in Iraq
Post Date: 2007-11-04 13:07:12 by robin
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Go to Source Link:
http://www.americanprogress.org/kf/priraqclaimfact1029.htm
CNN: Price of Iraq war 10 times pre-war predictions
Post Date: 2007-11-04 13:03:57 by robin
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When President Bush's emergency supplemental funding request is granted by Congress in the coming weeks, the cost of the Iraq War will reach ten times its original projected cost of $50-60 billion, CNN reports. At what will soon be a total tab of $576 billion, the Iraq war is second in cost only to World War II. According to CNN's report, every minute troops are deployed in Iraq, the American public pays $200,000 to keep them there. Since the money is not allocated by Congress as part of the regular budget, there is little oversight of how it is spent and Billions of dollars remain unaccounted for in Iraq as the costs continue to mount. "There's even funding that the ...
U.S. Army: Five million acres needed for training facilities by 2011
Post Date: 2007-11-04 12:59:15 by robin
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As the U.S. military budget balloons, so does the Armed Services’ need to train its soldiers. In fact, some military planners foresee a need for 5 million more acres for training facilities by 2011. In September, Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) told his fellow Congressmen that “the Army believes it has a current deficit of 2 million acres needed for training, a figure expected to grow by 2011 to 5 million acres.” Five million acres is comprable to 7,812 square miles -- an area about the size of New Jersey. Now, Colorado is the site of a contested fight between the U.S. Army and longtime ranchers. The military wants to expand the Pil9;on Canyon Maneuver Site, a 1,000 ...
US pays British troops for Iraq crash injuries
Post Date: 2007-11-04 08:30:04 by Zipporah
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US pays British troops for Iraq crash injuries In a groundbreaking move, the Pentagon is compensating servicemen seriously hurt when an American tank convoy forced them off the road Sunday November 4, 2007 The Pentagon has agreed to pay more than £300,000 in compensation to British soldiers who were seriously injured when their vehicle was in a collision with a US tank convoy on an Iraqi road. The landmark decision is the first time that the US military has offered money to British troops injured by US forces after admitting liability. The decision could, say lawyers, pave the way for more payouts to British servicemen accidentally injured in Iraq and Afghanistan by the ...
Noun + Verb + 9/11 + Iran = Democrats’ Defeat?
Post Date: 2007-11-03 23:48:44 by Horse
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WHEN President Bush started making noises about World War III, he only confirmed what has been a Democratic article of faith all year: Between now and Election Day he and Dick Cheney, cheered on by the mob of neocon dead-enders, are going to bomb Iran. But what happens if President Bush does not bomb Iran? That is good news for the world, but potentially terrible news for the Democrats. If we do go to war in Iran, the election will indeed be a referendum on the results, which the Republican Party will own no matter whom it nominates for president. But if we don’t, the Democratic standard-bearer will have to take a clear stand on the defining issue of the race. As we saw once again at ...
Marine recruiters busted in exam fraud Stand-ins took test required of 15 marginal enlistees
Post Date: 2007-11-03 16:43:41 by Zipporah
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Nine Marine Corps recruiters who worked in the Houston area were punished for using fraudulent stand-ins to take military-entrance exams for prospective recruits who might not otherwise measure up, the military confirmed Wednesday. Eight of the recruiters were reassigned and given non-judicial punishment, which could include fines and reduction in rank. Another, considered the worst offender, was discharged from the service. "I don't know why this happened here. Obviously, we do not tolerate it," said Capt. John Niemann, a spokesman for the recruiting district that includes Houston. "We learned of it. We investigated it and took appropriate disciplinary action." ...
Iraqi Army Training
Post Date: 2007-11-03 15:33:58 by SmokinOPs
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The Iraqi Genocide (PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS)
Post Date: 2007-11-03 11:58:49 by aristeides
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The Iraqi Genocide Why hasn't the Turkish parliament given tit for tat and passed a resolution condemning the Iraqi Genocide? As a result of Bush's invasion of Iraq, more than 1 million Iraqis have died, and several millions are displaced persons. The Iraqi death toll and the millions of uprooted Iraqis match the Armenian deaths and deportations. If one is a genocide, so is the other. It is true that most of the Iraqi deaths have resulted from Iraqis killing one another. But it was Bush's destruction of the secular Iraqi state that unleashed the sectarian strife. Moreover, American troops in Iraq have killed more civilians than insurgents. The U.S. military in Iraq has ...
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