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WAR: About that War

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AP

Iraq’s prime minister described the U.S. handover today to Iraqi authority of the heavily fortified Green Zone and Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace as the most visible sign that his country has regained its sovereignty.

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An American soldier boasts of having tortured Iraqis and making a 15 years old Iraqi girl commit suicide after she had been raped. (WARNING: Not for the Holidays! - This is what WAR does to soldiers and now Obama is sending another 30k to Afghanistan

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London Times

US soldiers have had to learn new tactics, develop new defenses, make new allies and fine-tune the way they raid their enemies’ hideouts. Now they are having to learn another skill in the fight against Iraqi insurgents: applying for an arrest warrant

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AP

[change] The top U.S. military officer said Saturday that the Pentagon could double the number of American forces in Afghanistan by next summer to 60,000 - the largest estimate of potential reinforcements ever publicly suggested.

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Iconoclast

Wolf admitted that he thought about selling the House and use the money for other social justice causes but he put the decision into the hands of the House’s supporters.

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By Justin Elliott, TPM Muckracker

"From this war's very beginning, this administration has permitted thousands of heavily-armed military contractors to march through Iraq without any law or court to rein them in or hold them accountable. These private security contractors ha

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Michael Yon reports from Afghanistan.

U.S. soldiers in Zabul Province give high marks to the Lithuanian Special Forces, who like to ride these captured Taliban motorbikes to sneak up on, and chase Taliban fighters. The “LithSof” are on their way to becoming living legends:

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Washington Post

As the United States prepares for a major expansion of its development and reconstruction programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, government investigators have described the U.S. reconstruction effort in Iraq as a failure that wasted billions.

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AP

2 boys approached a US soldier, pulled out a pistol and handed it over. They got a smile and some candy in return. The gun was plastic, and the boys were following a local Iraqi military order to surrender all toy weapons _ an effort to prevent child

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Sen. John McCain said the situation in Afghanistan will get more difficult before it gets easier — "just like the surge in Iraq was" — as the US prepares to pour thousands more troops into the country, including on the doorsteps of Kabul.

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