U.S. sees need for "tangible action" on Iran: Israel
• www.reuters.com"We are on the same page. We both see the threat ... And we both understand that tangible action is required..."
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WAR: About that War
Robotic suit could usher in super soldier era
• www.breitbart.comBut the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds—that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.
McCain believes Iraq war can be won by 2013
• May WayRepublican John McCain declared for the first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, although he rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put him on the same side as Democrats clamoring for full-scale troop withdrawals
Pelosi chokes on the big one: Iraq War Funding
• Rad GeekAn unusual coalition of antiwar Democrats and angry Republicans in the House torpedoed a $162.5 billion proposal to continue funding the wars in Iraq. Instead, House members voted to demand troop withdrawals from Iraq
Chinook Helicopter Production Line In Pennsylvania Sabotaged!!
• APThe press (giving in to gov't pressure?) euphemistically is calling it "vandalism", but the report describes inside access to sensitive parts of the assembly line, and tinkering by someone who knows what they're doing. That's sa
Real Clear Numbers: 101,000 U.S. Casualties a Year
• CounterpunchThose violent episodes are just part of bringing the war home. It’ll be active on the home front for years to come. 1 in 3 of those who’ve been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from a brain injury or stress disorder or a mix of both these cond
Pro Military and Anti-War
Brock LorberProfessional soldiers are, by virtue of their humanity, anti-war.
Northern Soul
• Youtube (h/t Alannah)Music antiwar video
"Young" Forrest Gump Has Been Humping The Bad Bush Near Baghdad
• Fox NewsChild actor Mike Humphries, who played the young Forrest Gump (way back in 1994) has been in the Army for a few years now. He exits the service (barring another stop-loss) in June, and returns to acting.
Disturbing Stirrings - Ratcheting Up For War on Iran
Stephen LendmanHawkish war threats directed at Iran
American Car-bombs Are Not Terrorism
• National ExpositorThe US terror war is a plan of organized deception that is focused more upon the American people than upon any enemy nation. The cycle of attacks and retribution is part of a psy-ops campaign of fear meant to frighten the people into complying
Neocons Admit that "War On Terror" Is a Hoax
• Asia TimesKey war on terror architect Douglas Feith has now confirmed Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Wesley Clark in admitting that the so-called War on Terror is a hoax. [in his new book of course]
The Long Case for DynCorp: Barring some dramatic shift, the business & the [war profits] are coming
• Leonard T.Is making a profit off the war immoral? It is an old and well established American Tradition, dating from the very beginning. Making a killing off the killing? Why not? If you don't someone else, greedier than you, will grab your share!
Israel: Iran could have nukes by '09 - By The Jerusalem Post
• By YAAKOV KATZ AND HERB KEINONWith Iran racing forward with its nuclear program, Israel now believes the Islamic Republic will master centrifuge technology and be able to begin enriching uranium on a military scale this year, The Jerusalem Post has learned. (war, War, WAR)
White House admits pre-war e-mails not archived
• RawstoryThe White House does not have archival copies of e-mails exchanged between administration officials during the weeks leading up to President Bush's decision to invade Iraq nor for the first two months of the war there, according to a just-release
Abu Ghraib Film Obscures Truth - by Sgt. Sam Provance
Ernest HancockFormer Army Sgt. Sam Provance was the only uniformed military intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib who broke the code of silence surrounding the infamous prisoner abuses.
Gen. Sanchez: Iraq policy driven by Bush reelection politics
• RawstorySanchez writes, “It was now crystal clear that a major success had to occur in Iraq before the presidential elections. Critical decisions affecting Iraq would be tied directly to ensuring the success of President Bush’s reelection campaign.”
Pat Tillman’s mother still not sure she’s being told the truth
• RawStory.comThe mother of Pat Tillman is speaking out about her son’s death in her first television interview, to be broadcast this Sunday on 60 Minutes. Video from CBS’s Early Show, broadcast May 2, 2008.
At 5th Anniversary: White House Still Spinning 'Mission Accomplished' Banner
• HuffPoSo "Bannergate" was born -- along with the image of the president spiking the ball on the five-yard line before scoring a real touchdown. "He blamed the sailors for something that his advance team staged," said General Wesley Clar
US report says al-Qaida gaining strength
• APAl-Qaida has rebuilt some of its pre-Sept. 11 capabilities from remote hiding places in Pakistan, leading to a major spike in attacks last year in that country and neighboring Afghanistan, the Bush administration said.
U.S. troops kill 45 in Sadr City clashes in Iraq
• McClatchy NewsThe US military said it had killed 45 militants in 2 days of fierce fighting in Baghdad, signaling that some Shiite Muslim extremists are defying a cease-fire against Iraqi troops. 4 US soldiers were killed in rocket or mortar attacks in Baghdad, the
Iranian outmaneuvers U.S. in Iraq
• McClatchy NewsOne of the most powerful men in Iraq isn't an Iraqi government official, a militia leader, a senior cleric or a top U.S. military commander or diplomat. He's an Iranian general, and at times he's more influential than all of them.
Drone attacks hit high in Iraq
• USA TodayU.S. commanders in Iraq have ordered an unprecedented number of airstrikes by unmanned airplanes in April to kill insurgents in urban settings. [Bomb people making breakfast, then go hit the casinos. Go Air Force.]
US Marines move into Taliban-held area of Afghanistan
• APUS Marines exchanged gunfire with militants after pouring into a Taliban-held town in Afghanistan in the first major American operation in the region in years. Several hundred Marines, many veterans of Iraq, pushed into town in pre-dawn light in an o
Karzai Escapes Unharmed After Taliban Attack (Video of Attack)
• YouTube (AP)Suspected Taliban militants attacked a ceremony attended by Afghan President Hamid Karzai Sunday, unleashing automatic weapons and rocket fire. The attack killed two but the president escaped without injury. (April 27)
Nothing New<br>by Charley Reese
• LewRockwellHere's a quotation cited by Mark Twain from the 19th century. Read it and see if you don't recognize it from today's political discourse: "Even if the war be wrong we are in it and must fight it out: we cannot retire from it without
Don't believe Bush's War is religiously based? Ask an atheist soldier.
• Associated PressAfterward, his commander asked whether he believed in God, Hall said. "I said, 'No, but I believe in Plexiglas,'" Hall said. "I've never believed I was going to a happy place. You get one life. When I die, I'm worm foo
IAEA chief hits out at US, Israel over Syrian reactor claims
• AFPThe IAEA said it received US information claiming the facility destroyed by Israel in Syria last September was a nuclear reactor, and noted it "will investigate the veracity of the information. Syria has an obligation to report construction of a
Al-Sadr may restart full-scale fight against US in Iraq
• APMuqtada al-Sadr is considering setting aside his political ambitions and restarting a full-scale fight against U.S.-led forces _ a worrisome shift that may reflect Iranian influence on the young cleric and could open the way for a shadow state protec
U.S. says North Korea gave Syria nuclear assistance
• ReutersThe US released photographs of what it said was a Syrian nuclear reactor built with North Korean help, in an effort to pressure Pyongyang to fully disclose its nuclear activities. Israel destroyed the reactor in a September 6 air strike that was init
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