Tag: iraq war
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War Games Show Bush Wrong On Iraq Pullout
from raw story: Supporters of the war in Iraq – including President George W. Bush – claim that a withdrawal of US forces would lead to an al Qaeda takeover of Iraq. Yet according to Pentagon war games, this scenario is highly unlikely. On Wednesday’s Countdown Keith Olbermann interviewed Washington Post correspondent Thomas Ricks who…
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paul raised more from military than other republicans
from iraq slogger: Congressman Ron Paul has defined his Republican presidential candidacy with a staunchly critical stance on the Iraq war, saying during the June 5 debate in New Hampshire, for example, that it was a “mistake to go and a mistake to stay.” … One might think such criticism of the war and the…
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‘executive privilege’ hides tillman documents
from raw story: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) revealed on Friday afternoon that the White House and Pentagon were holding up a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation into the friendly fire death of former professional football player and Army Corporal Patrick Tillman. “[T]he Committee wrote to White House Counsel Fred Fielding seeking ‘all documents…
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army misses recruiting goal again, raises worry
from reuters: The U.S. Army, strained by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, missed its recruiting goal for the second straight month in June, indicating a trend that some defense officials on Monday called worrying. The Army will announce the monthly data on Tuesday. Army spokesmen would not discuss the specific figures. But some defense officials…
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news on the march
‘behavior-detection’ graduates from airports to bus & train stationsfrom kurt nimmo: In celebration of Independence Day commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, the feds have increased the visibility of armed goons at train stations and bus terminals across the country. “Officials from the Transportation Security Administration, formed after the…
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australia says oil behind iraq war
from sydney morning herald: The government has admitted the need to secure oil supplies is a factor in Australia’s continued military involvement in Iraq. Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said today oil was a factor in Australia’s contribution to the unpopular war, as “energy security” and stability in the Middle East would be crucial to the…
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pentagram can’t account for $19b spent on iraqi forces
from washington post: The United States has invested $19 billion to train and equip nearly 350,000 Iraqi soldiers and police since toppling Saddam Hussein, but the ability of those forces to provide security remains in doubt, according to the findings of a bipartisan congressional investigation to be released today. As a result, President Bush’s pledge…
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everyone we fight in iraq is now ‘al-qaida’
(remember: ‘al-qaida’ literally means ‘the database’. it was the name of the computer file of the mujahideen who were funded & trained by the cia to fight the russians. do you fucking get it, yet? even if all this terrorism bullshit is real, who do we have to blame?) from salon: Josh Marshall publishes an…
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‘bring our brothers home’
and now for something i never thought i’d write:here’s the new ‘protest’ song from mc hammer! i have to put ‘protest’ in quotes because he says that he voted for bush, he believes the official 9/11 conspiracy theory & he loves the war on terror… but, at least, he says it’s time bring the troops…
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pentagon considers staying in iraq for ‘decades’
from npr: The White House and Pentagon are under increasing pressure from Congress and the public to end U.S. military involvement in Iraq. But the Pentagon is considering maintaining a core group of forces in Iraq, possibly for decades. Two factors may determine the course of the war in Iraq – political progress inside Iraq…
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biden on iraq bill: shove it down his throat
from politico: Blunt talk from Joe Biden, picked up by C-Span answering a man’s question at Jim Clyburn’s fish fry April 27 in Columbia, S.C. Biden is asked what he’ll do when Bush, as is expected, vetoes the Iraq funding bill. First, he talks about his son, and the equipment soldiers need — “The idea…
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ray mcgovern’s got the goods on cheney
from raw story: A former CIA analyst claims that falsified documents which were meant to show that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein regime had been trying to procure yellowcake uranium from Niger can be traced back to Vice President Dick Cheney. Appearing on MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson Show, Ray McGovern who served in the CIA for twenty-seven years,…
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conspiracies: iraq
from google video/sky tv: Simon Reeve investigates the real reasons for the war in Iraq. Starting with oil and the contracts set up between Saddam and non-American/British companies. The latter part of the film looks at the petro-dollar cycle and how OPEC members can threaten US power by using the euro to trade oil -…
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tenet: cheney had eye on iraq long before 9/11
from blacklisted news/houston chronicle: White House and Pentagon officials, and particularly Vice President Dick Cheney, were determined to attack Iraq from the first days of the Bush administration, long before the Sept. 11 attacks, and repeatedly stretched available intelligence to build support for the war, according to a new book by former CIA director George…
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‘deliberate and calculated lies’
from raw story: In a major hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the brother of deceased Army Specialist Pat Tillman, who appears to have been a victim of friendly fire, said that reports of his brother’s ‘heroic death’ were “deliberate and calculated lies.” “These were intentional falsehoods that meet the legal…