Tag: iraq war
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Shooter, Spy Sat Cover, DHS Death, Buffet, Blackwater, Beijing
shooter did time in mental health facilityfrom washington times: A former employee at a Chicago psychiatric treatment center said Kazmierczak had been placed there after high school by his parents. He used to cut himself and had resisted taking his medications, she said. Kazmierczak spent more than a year at the Thresholds-Mary Hill House in…
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money & mccain for ‘more wars’
dod wants $70b more for warsfrom ap: The White House will ask Congress next week for another $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an amount that would help cover operational costs only until early next year when the next administration takes over… Since 2001, Congress has approved some $700 billion for the…
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mccain: americans don’t care if US in iraq for 10,000 years
from thinkprogress: Last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said it “would be fine with” him if the U.S. military stayed in Iraq for “a hundred years” or even a “million years.” Fifty-nine percent say the U.S. should “stick to a withdrawal timetable” instead of keeping “a significant number of troops in Iraq until the situation…
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record highs for 2007: death & food prices
2007 deadliest for US troops in iraqfrom ap: The second half of 2007 saw violence drop dramatically in Iraq, but the progress came at a high price: The year was the deadliest for the U.S. military since the 2003 invasion, with 899 troops killed. American commanders and diplomats, however, say the battlefield gains against insurgents…
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recruiting, russia, nuke site, ptsd, budget & ‘condor’
US military recruiting illegal aliensfrom press tv: Mexican citizen groups claim the US army is recruiting illegal immigrants from Mexico to send them to the war in Iraq. According to Prensa Latina on Friday in Culiacan, the capital of the northern state Sinaloa, civil activist Ildefonso Ortiz Cabrera told reporters that US military officers use…
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military family poll: war not worth it
from military.com: Families with ties to the military, long a reliable source of support for wartime presidents, disapprove of President Bush and his handling of the war in Iraq, with a majority concluding the invasion was not worth it, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found. The views of the military community, which includes active-duty…
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buzzy’s brother quits the state department
inspector general will leave state departmentfrom washington post: Howard J. Krongard, the State Department’s embattled inspector general, announced yesterday that he is stepping down next month, ending a turbulent tenure in which he came under fire from employees and lawmakers and was accused of impeding key Iraq-related investigations… Current and former department officials have charged…
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cusack: coffin photo ban ‘most cowardly political act’
from raw story: When the Bush administration began enforcing a controversial policy banning photographs of military caskets returning from Iraq, the move provoked outrage – and now, a film – from actor John Cusack, who calls the media ban “one of the most cowardly political acts” of his lifetime. Appearing on PBS with host Tavis…
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44th anniversary of a coup d’etat
from oregon truth alliance: On November 22, 1963, the United States of America had a military coup d’etat – an event that most people chose not to see (a society of “not see’s”). President Kennedy was removed after changing his mind on the Cold War. He refused to invade Cuba during the Bay of Pigs…
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new al-cia-duh created to fight old al-cia-duh
from truthnews: The US is considering a plan to create gangs of mercenaries from local population in the border areas of Pakistan to fight al-Qaida & the Taliban, emulating its tactics in Iraq’s Anbar province. The plan would involve increasing the number of US trainers in Pakistan by dozens from the current number of around…
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army desertion rate up 80% since 2003
from ap: Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. While the totals are still far lower than they were during the Vietnam War, when…
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‘unjustified’
from raw story: An FBI investigation has found that 14 of the 17 Blackwater shootings were “unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect for security contractors in Iraq”, according to a New York Times report. Seventeen people were killed when Blackwater private security guards opened fire in a crowded Baghdad neighborhood as they protected a…
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laura ingraham: war in iraq is going well
from huffington post: Laura Ingraham is guest-hosting on “The View” today, and when talk turned to Iraq, she had some interesting things to say about the success of the American effort. She claimed that “we have… really good news coming out of Baghdad” but “The View” co-hosts and the media more generally prefer to focus…
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news on the march
army’s robotic, armed combat vehicle rolls outfrom wired: We now know that there are robotic cars smart enough to drive themselves around a city. The next step: give those vehicles automatic weapons, of course… Last month, a set of South African remotely-operated 35 mm guns spun out of control, and killed nine soldiers. The Black…
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‘link iraq to iran,’ rumsfeld argued before proof
from raw story: Ten months before the US aired formal proof of Iranian involvement in funding Iraqi insurgents, then-Secretary of Defense warned in secret Pentagon memos that Iran should be the “concern of the American people” and he issued explicit instructions to the military. “[L]ink Iraq to Iran,” Rumsfeld wrote in one of thousands of…
