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WAR: About that War

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By James Janega & Nadeem Majeed - Chicago Trib

The reins to the U.S. military effort in Iraq were handed Saturday to Gen. David Petraeus, whose plan to bring more soldiers into Baghdad hinges on the gamble that it will buy time for the beleaguered Iraqi government to cement control of the country

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By JOHN V. WALSH (Counterpunch)

We hear over and over again that it "takes 60 votes to get something serious done in the Senate." That is a lot of malarkey. It takes only one senator to begin a filibuster against any bill. And then only 41 votes to uphold that filibuster

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Stephen Fidler & Demetri Sevastopulo FT

Vladimir Putin threw down the gauntlet to the west in a confrontational speech on Saturday, attacking what he called "illegal" US unilateral military action and arguing it had made the world more dangerous. To a shocked audience that includ

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By Douglas Herman - A Rense.com Exclusive 1-9-5

(2 years ago Douglas Herman walked us through the chronology of War with Iran. And I'm afraid that chaos, death, destruction and economic collapse of the dollar is a predicted and desired side-effect for known and unknown reasons)

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Mark Tran and agencies - www.guardian.co.uk

Russia is planning to buy new intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear submarines and possibly aircraft carriers as part of an ambitious military programme, it emerged yesterday. (Bet the Military Industrial Complex is happy,... or worse)

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Salon

Our strategy in Iraq has long been based on training homegrown security forces there. What happens if the Iraqi soldiers and police we stand up have their own agenda, not that of a unified Iraq but that of tearing apart the country.

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