Obama: US commitment in Iraq is shifting
Ernest HancockPresident Barack Obama will set a course Monday for the nation's changing mission in Iraq as the military prepares to end its combat operations there.
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WAR: About that War
Wikileaks: Who's Hiding What and Why
• Fred ReedIf you don’t think that contracts—money—have a great deal to do with wars, reflect that all those hundreds of billions of dollars end up in pockets, and those pockets do not belong to soldiers. Makers of body armor, boots, ammunition, helicopters, on
US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs
• Robert H. Reid via Associated PressIn a summer of suffering, America's military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in the grinding conflict. All signs point to more bloodshed in the months ahead, straining the already shaky internation
Possible False Flag? Japanese Say Oil Tanker Attacked Near Hormuz
• Kurt Nimmo via Prison Planet.comBloomberg is reporting this morning that an oil tanker owned by the Japanese company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., operator of the world’s second-largest oil-tanker fleet, may have been attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, a strategically important waterw
Floor Debate on Pakistan War Powers Resolution
• CongressmanRonPaul via YouTube.comJuly 27 2010 Congressman Paul's portions of the floor debate on the Paul / Kucinich privileged resolution
July is deadliest month of Afghanistan war for US
• BBC NewsAmerican forces have experienced their deadliest month in the 9-year-old Afghan war, with 66 US service members killed [so far] in July. The previous most deadly month for the US was last month, when 60 died.
WikiLeaks Reveals the Enemy ... and It's Us
• Readers Supported News.... the savagery revealed in the leaked reports is not what most of our leaders are focusing on. Rather, it is the accusation that the reports suggest that the war is being lost. Thus, from the White House to Congress, to the media talk shows, their
WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries"
Stephen LendmanA powerful denunciation of all wars
Congress gives Obama long-delayed Afghan war funds
• ReutersThe U.S. Congress on Tuesday gave President Barack Obama long-delayed funding for his troop increase in Afghanistan despite opposition from many fellow Democrats, while Obama played down the gravity of leaked war documents.
Audit: US Can't Account for $8.7B in Iraqi Funds
• APThe US Defense Dept is unable to account for over 95% of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil money tapped by the US for rebuilding the war ravaged nation. In a country where people complain services like electricity and clean water are sharply lacking
Missing U.S. sailor's remains found in Afghanistan
• Reporters Without BordersThe remains of one of two U.S. sailors who went missing in Afghanistan last week have been found in the east of the country, the NATO-led force said, and troops were still searching for the second man. The two men, serving with the U.S. Navy, went mi
Hit list draws fire in wake of leaked US documents
• APWhen it comes to war, killing the enemy is an accepted fact. Even amid the sensation of the WikiLeaks.org revelations, that stark reality lies at the core of new charges that some American military commando operations may have amounted to war crimes.
WikiLeaks: More US documents coming on Afghan war
• APThe release of some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents on the Afghanistan war is just the beginning, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange promised Monday, adding that he still has thousands more Afghan files to post online.
Greenlighting Iran. Neocons & H. Res. 1553: we want a new war and we mean to get it.
Found Zero"Expressing support for the State of Israel's right to defend Israeli sovereignty, to protect the lives and safety of the Israeli people, and to use all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran"
Prospects and Consequence of Attacking Iran
Stephen LendmanDoing so will inflame the whole Middle East and risk a global confrontation
Website Releases Secrets on War [Wikileaks]
• JULIAN E. BARNES And SIOBHAN GORMANThousands of secret military documents were released Sunday by a Web-based organization, a gigantic leak of classified information that appeared to present a bleak view of the Afghanistan war and could have a profound impact on the public perception
Top U.S. officer warns Afghan war will get worse
• ReutersMore NATO troops will die in Afghanistan as violence mounts over the summer, but Washington's goal of turning the tide against the insurgency by year's end is within reach, the top U.S. military officer said. Admiral Mike Mullen, on a visit to the co
Wikileaks Does it Again - Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010
Ernest Hancock25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary (AWD), an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.
Senate backs troop funding but rejects money for domestic programs
• Susan CornwellThe Senate on Thursday approved funds to pay for President Obama's Afghanistan troop increase, but refused to sign off on billions in extra nonmilitary spending sought by the House of Representatives.
Why Not Another World War?
• Peter Schiff via LewRockwell.comThere is overwhelming agreement among economists that the Second World War was responsible for decisively ending the Great Depression. When asked why the wars in Iran and Afghanistan are failing to make the same impact today, they often claim that th
N. Korea warns of 'sacred war'
• msnbc.comCountry responds to 'reckless' military exercises by South, U.S.
State Dept. planning to field a small army in Iraq
• McClatchy NewsCan diplomats field their own army? The State Department is laying plans to do precisely that in Iraq, in an unprecedented experiment that U.S. officials and some nervous lawmakers say could be risky.
We’re Not Winning. It’s Not Worth It. Here’s how to draw down in Afghanistan.
• Richard N. Haass, Council on Foreign RelationsHaass, the president of CFR, all-but-admitting the war in Afghanistan was a lost cause and suggesting ways that Western goals of terrorist containment could be achieved via other, less costly and invasive strategies.
Top Officials Reiterate Pledges to Continue Afghan War
• Jason Ditz via AntiWar.comNew 2014 Drawdown Date Is 'Non-Binding'
The Case For War - Israel and Iran
• arcleinIran has already embraced terrorism against Israel and the United States. Via Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas in Gaza, and Fatah on the West Bank, the clerics have repeatedly backed suicide bombers and helped launch thousan
What Makes Bradley Manning a Hero?
• Center for a Stateless SocietyOn Wednesday, July 21, members of the Facebook group savebradley encouraged supporters to change their profile pictures to say “Google Bradley Manning.” The group hopes to raise public interest in the US Army soldier who was arrested in connection to
Plan to begin Afghan security handover this year dropped
• The GuardianPlans to begin handing control of provinces in Afghanistan to Afghan security forces by the end of this year have been quietly dropped amid fears General Petraeus, the new US commander in the country, is less committed to a speedy transfer of power.
President of the Council on Foreign Relations on Afghanistan: ‘It’s not worth it’
• RawstoryThe president of the Council of Foreign Relations is telling President Barack Obama that he needs to drastically scale down his ambitions in Afghanistan. Richard Haass called Afghanistan "very much Barack Obama's war of choice." Haass seemed to be ec
US to unveil large taxpayer bilked bribe package to win the heart$ of Paki$tani$
• McClatchy NewsThe U.S. will announce hundreds of millions of dollars worth of civilian aid projects for Pakistan in an attempt to demonstrate that Washington has broadened its relationship with the country, away from just anti-terror cooperation to helping the peo
The Drooling Beast of War Is Forever Hungry
• Arthur via BlogSpot.comLet's consider a typical example of the nonstop propaganda onslaught that passes for "news" in the land of the free, which is also home to a gloriously free press, the noble, peace-loving United States.
