Tag: surge
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#MorningMonarchy: November 20, 2017
Agent Manson, botched raids and illegal orders + this day in history w/the indictment of Phil Spector and our song of the day by METZ on your Morning Monarchy for November 20, 2017.
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decider-in-chief bypasses congress, then visits his afghanisurge
obama bypasses senate process, filling 15 posts from nytimes: President Obama, making a muscular show of his executive authority just one day after Congress left for spring recess, said Saturday that he would bypass the Senate and install 15 appointees, including a union lawyer whose nomination to the National Labor Relations Board was blocked last…
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Kucinich Forces House to Vote On Pullout From Afghanistan
In a test of congressional support for President Barack Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy, lawmakers are set to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would direct him to pull U.S. forces out of the war.
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obama rebrands iraq war as ‘operation new dawn’
prince of peace prize acts like changing name is ending war… from afp: President Barack Obama’s administration plans to rebrand its military operation in Iraq “Operation New Dawn,” beginning September 1, a Pentagon memorandum shows. The memo, signed by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, shows the Pentagon approving a request to switch the name of…
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2/18 Newspurge: Get Outta Yr Bed, You Gotta Wake Up
The depressing truth about anti-depressants: No better than placebos // Onion article on financial system actually reveals the truth // Mossad hit squad stole UK ID’s to kill Hamas leader // French soldiers used as ‘nuclear guinea pigs’
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obama praises & wages war while accepting peace prize
in other news, freedom is slavery & ignorance is strength… from latimes: President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize [in Oslo] today, acknowledging the irony of winning it as a wartime president and calling his own accomplishments “slight” in comparison to past winners. But in his speech to the Nobel Committee, Obama spoke of the…
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obamessiah: more troops, more secrecy, less change!
from latimes: President Obama plans to send 30,000 to 35,000 additional soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Monday, the largest single U.S. deployment since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The additional troops, Obama’s second major escalation of the conflict this year, will bring the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan to about 100,000.…
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olbermann special comment: get out of afghanistan now
from raw replay: In a Special Comment, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann argues that in the face political and financial opportunism, not to mention outright lies about the war in Afghanistan, and the stark historical warning represented by Vietnam, President Obama should make the change he promised during his campaign and pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.…
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warwhores: diplomacy, documents, defense & diversions
obama never considered diplomacy in afghanistan* 4 US troops killed in afghanistan* ‘the surge: the untold story’ – film offers gospel of surge* more troops to afghanistan, but what will they do?* 2 nato commanders wore nazi regalia in afghanistan* obama’s new afghanistan plan may be much like old one* leaked docs reveal uk cover-up…
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democrat proposes war tax to pay for afghanisurge
from raw replay: ABC’s Martha Raddatz reports that Rep. David Obey will propose a war tax if more troops are sent to Afghanistan. This video is from ABC’s World News, broadcast Nov. 23, 2009.
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warwhores: failure, funding & finding
global warfare USA: the world is the pentagon’s oyster* army sends infant to protective services, mom to afghanistan*US army arrests mother who failed to turn up for afghanistan deployment* army suicides set another yearly record*nato chief: quick exit from afghanistan will unleash ‘global jihad’*how the US funds the taliban* US unveils extended bagram prison* high…
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change: sources say obama to add 34,000 to afghanisurge
from cbsnews: After weeks of meetings with top-ranking officials, CBS News has learned that President Obama is expected to send a substantial amount of additional troops to Afghanistan… Sources tell CBS News that President Obama plans to completely or almost completely fill Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request for 40,000 new combat troops in Afghanistan. The U.S.…
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moore calls on obama to withdraw from afghanistan
maybe he should make a documentary about how the war of terror is based on the lies of 9/11 … oh wait, he kinda already didfrom raw replay: Filmmaker Michael Moore told CNN’s Larry King that it’s time for President Barack Obama to wind down the war in Afghanistan. This video is from CNN’s Larry…