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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Neocons Surge Against Antiwar Movement
Post Date: 2007-10-22 19:52:27 by Brian S
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As thousands of Americans take to the streets this week, they will face a rising right-wing offensive to discredit and derail the antiwar movement. The cry of "troops home now" will echo in 11 cities as an intense year-long battle begins to sharpen. Not since 2002 will the antiwar movement – and dovish Democrats – face as virulent and lavishly funded a backlash as this one. Consider the gathering storm: A powerful and persistent faction of hawks, centered in Vice President Cheney's office, is pushing for a military strike against Iran in the coming year. The orchestrated campaign for continuing the "surge" in Iraq, led by Gen. Petraeus, succeeded in ...
Bateman on Hanson: An Altercation Altercation (WEST POINT COLONEL JUDGES V.D. HANSON)
Post Date: 2007-10-22 19:16:28 by aristeides
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Bateman on Hanson: An Altercation Altercation By LTC Bob Bateman Most Altercators know me as a soldier, and this is as it should be. But our gracious host and I share at least one thing in common: We are both academic historians. Eric, of course, is a full-time professor, while I am only adjunct. But our foundations are the same. As historians we share certain professional values. For example, as historians we privilege the written word. In our historical writing, we both seek to create a thesis for the reader which accurately represents a synthesis of facts and ideas that come from sometimes quite disparate sources. And finally, in developing that thesis, we are bound by the facts. This ...
Bush asks skeptical Congress for more war funds
Post Date: 2007-10-22 18:38:07 by Arete
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush asked Congress on Monday for $189.3 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, another huge request that faced deep skepticism from lawmakers opposed to prolonging the Iraq conflict. Bush's request covers ongoing military operations for fiscal 2008, which began on October 1, the White House said. It is in addition to about $600 billion already approved for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. House of Representatives appropriators said earlier this month they would not even consider the new war funding request until early 2008, and that they wanted to link it to a plan to bring U.S. combat troops home. But they left open the ...
US Army Lures Foreigners with Promise of Citizenship
Post Date: 2007-10-22 18:38:06 by richard9151
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10/22/07 "SPIEGEL" -- -- -More than 30,000 foreign troops are enlisted in the US Army, many of them serving in Iraq. Their reward for risking their lives for their adopted country is US citizenship. When Anna Maria Clarke, 26, was a teenager living in the western German city of Mannheim, she already had a weakness for smart uniforms, particularly on American soldiers, and for war movies like "Full Metal Jacket." It was an attraction that Clarke, a German citizen, felt early on and still feels today. The parents of 25-year-old Julieta Ortiz immigrated to the United States from Mexico City, dirt-poor but ambitious. They worked hard picking strawberries in California, ...
New U.S. Command in Africa Faces Skeptics
Post Date: 2007-10-22 18:06:41 by Arete
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The new U.S. military command devoted to Africa is now operational. It's called AFRICOM and its launch completes a three-year quest by the Pentagon. The Pentagon divides the world up into six regions known as "combatant commands." The most prominent is CENTCOM — the area that encompasses the Middle East and central Asia. Each command is led by a four-star general who, in turn, is responsible for all the U.S. forces operating in the area. But according to the Pentagon, AFRICOM will be different. The U.S. Africa command will focus on the humanitarian needs of Africa. Most African leaders are skeptical — or flatly opposed — to the development, which the Pentagon ...
Bush Asks for $46 Billion More for Wars
Post Date: 2007-10-22 14:49:21 by innieway
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush asked Congress on Monday for another $46 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and finance other national security needs. "We must provide our troops with the help and support they need to get the job done," Bush said. The figure brings to $196.4 billion the total requested by the administration for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere for the budget year that started Oct. 1. It includes $189.3 billion for the Defense Department, $6.9 billion for the State Department and $200 million for other agencies. To date, Congress has already provided more than $455 billion for the Iraq war, with stepped-up military operations running ...
Stalin, Mao And … Ahmadinejad?
Post Date: 2007-10-22 14:45:00 by aristeides
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Stalin, Mao And … Ahmadinejad? Conservatives have become surprisingly charitable about two of history's greatest mass murderers. At a meeting with reporters last week, President Bush said that "if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran] from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon." These were not the barbs of some neoconservative crank or sidelined politician looking for publicity. This was the president of the United States, invoking the specter of World War III if Iran gained even the knowledge needed to make a nuclear weapon. The American discussion about Iran has lost all ...
Bhutto bombing kicks off war on US plan
Post Date: 2007-10-22 14:37:53 by richard9151
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10/20/07 "Asia Times" --- - The first shot has already been fired in the battle that Islamists have vowed to wage against the Washington-inspired and brokered attempt at regime change in Pakistan. It came in the form of twin bomb blasts aimed at Benazir Bhutto, the lynchpin in US machinations, within hours of her arrival in Karachi after years in exile. The bombs narrowly missed Bhutto but killed up to 150 and injured hundreds of the rapturous supporters who thronged the Karachi streets to greet her. The windshield of her vehicle was shattered and members of her entourage on the roof of the vehicle were injured. A car that was part of her convoy was destroyed. The attack was ...
George Bush's foreign policy chickens are coming home to roost
Post Date: 2007-10-22 00:49:52 by kiki
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George Bush's foreign policy chickens are coming home to roost. They're leaving perhaps an impossible clean-up job, and it's all the widely predicted result of their keeper's early devaluation of Afghanistan in favor of Iraq adventurism. Had someone, in 2002, acquired for Mr. Bush a copy of "Foreign Policy for Dummies," its first, longest and, oddly enough, least complicated chapter would have zeroed in on the importance of isolating the Afghanistan problem, while taking advantage of the world's resounding approval of our efforts there. It would have hammered on the vast and concomitant dangers of taking our eyes off the ball, especially by siphoning ...
Biden Says Bush Could Use Iranian Guard Resolution as a Pretext for War
Post Date: 2007-10-21 19:50:46 by Brian S
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Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Democrat Joe Biden, chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said President George W. Bush could use a measure calling the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group as a justification for war. The Senate voted 76-22 on Sept. 26 to approve a nonbinding resolution asking the U.S. to formally include the 150,000- member military group on a list of terrorist organizations. Biden said Bush could use the vote to justify an attack on Iran, which is suspected of trying to develop nuclear weapons. Biden said in an interview on ABC's ``This Week With George Stephanopoulos,'' broadcast today, that the vote in favor of the resolution was ...
Awaiting justice - Amid continual massacres perpetrated by the US occupation and its local allies, millions of Iraqis have fled their homes.
Post Date: 2007-10-21 19:22:17 by Red Jones
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Awaiting justice - Amid continual massacres perpetrated by the US occupation and its local allies, millions of Iraqis have fled their homes. From Damascus and Amman, Amanda Noureddine reports on the exodus Since the US and UK forces invaded Iraq in 2003, an estimated 4.2 million Iraqis have fled their homes, the majority in the last two years. Up to two million are estimated to have sought refuge outside Iraq, while the remainder has been displaced within the country. The exodus is the largest the region has witnessed since the Palestinian Nakba. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the flight of Iraqis continues at a rate of 60,000 per month. According to an ...
World War III Is Going To Be Hilarious
Post Date: 2007-10-21 18:54:16 by kiki
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posted Oct.17, 2007 Your president giggled and grinned while discussing World War III today. "But this -- we got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding [grinning] World War III [end grinning], it seems like you [begin giggling] ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge [end giggling] necessary to make a nuclear weapon." Hahahaha! Yeah! Zinger! That's funny shit. To the rest of the known world, however, World War III a scary thing. It's just below abortion and above rape on the list of the all time unfunniest topics. Let's break it down. 1. Iran ...
Fox News Sunday: William “The Bloody” Kristol’s Bloodlust for War with Iran
Post Date: 2007-10-21 18:41:09 by Zipporah
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Play If it’s Sunday, then it’s time for Pravda, er…FOXNews Sunday to give a platform for William “The Bloody” Kristol to get his wargasm on. Never mind the truth or facts, like that we haven’t had a diplomat in Iran in 30 years. The time for diplomacy is OVER, I tell you! Never mind that Bush has changed the standards–now it’s NOT actively pursuing a weapons program, something that the IAEA is saying they aren’t doing anyway, but knowledge of how to build a nuke, that now demands that Kristol the chickenhawk scream for a war, ignoring completely the realities of our overstretched military and complete lack of support on the world stage. Hey ...
Why I know weapons expert Dr David Kelly was murdered, by the MP who spent a year investigating his death
Post Date: 2007-10-21 17:50:15 by Horse
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For Tony Blair it was a glorious day. He was in the United States being feted by the U.S. Congress and President Bush. Their adulation was such that he was being offered the rare honour of a Congressional Gold Medal. Naturally enough, Bush and his administration were hugely grateful for Blair's decision to join the United States in its invasion of Iraq. That invasion was supposed to lead to the discovery and disposal of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and make the world a safer place. But as Blair was lapping up the grateful plaudits from the U.S. Congress on July 17, 2003, the man who had done more than almost any other individual on earth to contain the threat from WMD lay ...
Why I know weapons expert Dr David Kelly was murdered, by the MP who spent a year investigating his death
Post Date: 2007-10-21 13:33:50 by Red Jones
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Why I know weapons expert Dr David Kelly was murdered, by the MP who spent a year investigating his death By NORMAN BAKER Last updated at 00:13am on 20th October 2007 For Tony Blair it was a glorious day. He was in the United States being feted by the U.S. Congress and President Bush. Their adulation was such that he was being offered the rare honour of a Congressional Gold Medal. Naturally enough, Bush and his administration were hugely grateful for Blair's decision to join the United States in its invasion of Iraq. That invasion was supposed to lead to the discovery and disposal of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and make the world a safer place. But as Blair was lapping up ...
Report: CIA seized Egyptian terror suspect in Europe in 1995 in early alleged rendition case
Post Date: 2007-10-21 13:30:07 by Zipporah
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Report: CIA seized Egyptian terror suspect in Europe in 1995 in early alleged rendition case Sunday, October 21, 2007 COPENHAGEN, Denmark: CIA renditions in Europe date back as far as the mid-1990s, with U.S. agents allegedly seizing an Egyptian terror suspect in Croatia in 1995 and sending him to Egypt, a Danish newspaper reported Sunday. The man, known as Abu Talal, was a high-ranking member of the Egyptian terrorist organization al-Gama'a al-Islamiya who had political asylum in Denmark, according to the Danish daily Politiken. U.S. agents seized Abu Talal in Croatia in September 1995 and then handed him over to Egypt, where he probably was executed, the report said. Former CIA ...
SAS (British special forces) raiders enter Iran to kill gunrunners
Post Date: 2007-10-21 13:25:22 by Zipporah
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BRITISH special forces have crossed into Iran several times in recent months as part of a secret border war against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Al-Quds special forces, defence sources have disclosed. There have been at least half a dozen intense firefights between the SAS and arms smugglers, a mixture of Iranians and Shi’ite militiamen. The unreported fighting straddles the border between Iran and Iraq and has also involved the Iranian military firing mortars into Iraq. UK commanders are concerned that Iran is using a militia ceasefire to step up arms supplies in preparation for an offensive against their base at Basra airport. An SAS squadron is carrying out operations ...
Syria Shuts Main Exit From War for Iraqis
Post Date: 2007-10-21 13:00:30 by Red Jones
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Syria Shuts Main Exit From War for Iraqis By THANASSIS CAMBANIS DAMASCUS, Syria, Oct. 20 — Long the only welcoming country in the region for Iraqi refugees, Syria has closed its borders to all but a small group of Iraqis and imposed new visa rules that will legally require the 1.5 million Iraqis currently in Syria to return to Iraq. The change quietly went into effect on Oct. 1. Syrian officials have often threatened to stem the flow of refugees over the past eight months, but until now have backed down after pleas from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. For more than a year, 2,000 to 4,000 Iraqis have fled into Syria every day, according to United Nations ...
Tough going for antiwar Republicans
Post Date: 2007-10-21 10:41:13 by Zipporah
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Tough going for antiwar Republicans Karen Tam / For The TimesWALTER JONES: The North Carolina congressman has never had a primary challenge, but is now being abandoned by GOP officials as a result of his opposition to the war. A handful in Congress have opposed increased troop levels or backed a pullout — or both. Many of their constituents are not happy. By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer October 21, 2007 MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. — The Crystal Coast Republican Men's Club faithful were all smiles as they gathered at a restaurant to listen to their candidate for North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District. But the warm reception wasn't for the ...
Army to keep forcibly re-enlisting soldiers
Post Date: 2007-10-21 10:12:06 by Zipporah
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'Stop loss' program still needed, general says in response to Gates WASHINGTON - The U.S. Army will continue to rely on an unpopular program that forces some soldiers to stay on beyond their retirement or re-enlistment dates, despite repeated pressure from Defense Secretary Robert Gates to reduce and eventually eliminate the practice. Lt. Gen. Michael Rochelle, deputy chief of staff for personnel, said Thursday that the number of soldiers kept on duty has actually increased in recent months as a result of President Bush's orders to increase troop levels in Iraq this year to help quell the violence. The number of those being kept on beyond their commitment — ...
Suicide Is Not Painless
Post Date: 2007-10-21 09:13:03 by kiki
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IT was one of those stories lost in the newspaper’s inside pages. Last week a man you’ve never heard of — Charles D. Riechers, 47, the second-highest-ranking procurement officer in the United States Air Force — killed himself by running his car’s engine in his suburban Virginia garage. Mr. Riechers’s suicide occurred just two weeks after his appearance in a front-page exposé in The Washington Post. The Post reported that the Air Force had asked a defense contractor, Commonwealth Research Institute, to give him a job with no known duties while he waited for official clearance for his new Pentagon assignment. Mr. Riechers, a decorated Air Force officer ...
U.S. military says killed 49 in Baghdad clashes
Post Date: 2007-10-21 09:03:46 by Zipporah
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Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:00 AM ET By Sattar Raheem and Aseel Kami BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it had killed 49 "criminals" in clashes in the Baghdad district of Sadr City on Sunday in a raid to capture a militant suspected of involvement in the kidnapping of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Reuters witnesses said U.S. strikes had killed two toddlers in the poor district, the main stronghold in Baghdad for the Mehdi Army, a Shi'ite militia loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Iraqi police said 13 people had been killed and 69 wounded. The bodies of the toddlers, one in a nappy, lay on blankets in the morgue of Imam Ali hospital in Sadr City where doctors tended to wounded men, ...
A new era of unrestrained mercantilism, phantom ravages of terrorism, the thread of private armies, banks sitting on buyout loans, a question of lending fraud
Post Date: 2007-10-21 08:44:31 by Kamala
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A new era of unrestrained mercantilism, phantom ravages of terrorism, the thread of private armies, banks sitting on buyout loans, a question of lending fraud If there are no borders or tariffs, transnational conglomerates, banks and central banks, etc. would be able to operate at will and impoverish just about everyone. It is the old British mercantilism on the loose again. The major banks of the world think they control the world presently and to a great extent that is about to come to an end. The financial system worldwide is now out of control and there is no way to regain control. All the elitists can do is stop a crash landing. This is in part why we have mercenary armies on our soil ...
I am ‘that big of a lunatic,’ Bill Maher
Post Date: 2007-10-21 08:33:03 by Kamala
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I am ‘that big of a lunatic,’ Bill Maher By Jerry Mazza Online Journal Associate Editor Oct 19, 2007, 01:34 Email this article Printer friendly page In answer to Bill Maher’s September 14 tirade on his Real Time show (just three days after 9/11), when he said, “Crazy people who still think the government brought down the Twin Towers in a controlled explosion have to stop pretending that I’m the one who’s being naive.” He went on to say, “How big a lunatic do you have to be to watch two giant airliners packed with jet fuel slam into buildings on live TV, igniting a massive inferno that burned for two hours, and then think ‘well’ if ...
The War on Afghanistan Was Wrong, Too
Post Date: 2007-10-21 05:02:16 by Zoroaster
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The War on Afghanistan Was Wrong, Too by Jacob G. Hornberger by Jacob G. Hornberger DIGG THIS While most Americans have turned against the Iraq War, many of them still think that the war on Afghanistan was morally and legally justified. Their rationale is that the United States was simply defending itself by attacking Afghanistan and retaliating against those who had conspired to commit the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Of course, the last thing on people’s mind was that the 9/11 perpetrators themselves were retaliating for the bad things that the U.S. government had long been doing to people in the Middle East. In fact, the irony of the attacks on both Afghanistan and Iraq is that ...
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