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[SWJ Blog] 25 October SWJ Roundup: This is a unique contribution to the burgeoning literature on the Iraq war, analyzing the day-to-day performance of a US brigade in Baghdad during 2004-2005. Mansoor uses a broad spectrum of sources to address the military, political and cultural aspects of an operation undertaken with almost no relevant preparation, which tested officers and men to their limits and generated mistakes and misjudgments on a daily basis.
[Politics or Poppycock] Iraq, Afghanistan and the Treatment of Veterans ”” Voter Guide: In 2005, he voted against an amendment that would establish a committee to investigate waste, fraud and abuse in the awarding of contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also voted to table an amendment that would make several changes to federal contracting and procurement laws and call for the suspension and debarment of unethical contractors, disclosure of audit reports by the head of each executive agency outlining unjustified contractor costs, and the publication of information regarding federal contractor penalties and violations.
[www.theenemyblog.com] Prepared, Never Scared: According to the Brookings Institute, a non-profit, public policy organization out of Washington DC, the following numbers are accurate as of October 2008: In 2005, an average of 7 IRAQI CIVILIANS were killed by US Troops per week. In January, 2006, 4 were killed per week.
[Progressives, South Bend] Truthout roundup 10/24: Camillo "Mac" Bica, Truthout: "Despite some subtle nuances regarding a timetable for the phased withdrawal of at least a portion of the combat troops from Iraq, the positions of both John McCain and Barack Obama regarding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are quite similar. Under both their plans, American young men and women, despite their eventually being withdrawn from Iraq - 'with honor' for McCain, 'responsibly' for Obama - will not be returning home but, rather, redeployed to another battlefield upon which to continue to kill or be killed.
[Explore the Spirit] 279: To Kill or Not to Kill? PBS Explores Moral Dilemmas Our ...: But, the first thing you need to know about this newest POV film is that its power flows from its balance between soldiers who explain why military men and women regrettably must take life in war ”” and several soldiers who have become conscientious objectors during the Iraq War. The film was made with cooperation from the U.S. Army and we spend part of our 90 minutes with Major Peter Kilner, a West Point professor of ethics, who explains that it's important for all of us to understand these troubling issues.
[Marine Corps Community for USMC Veterans] Medal of Honor recipient criticizes war planning: Eric Shinseki, was right to tell Congress in 2003 that the Iraq operation would require hundreds of thousands more troops than the Pentagon had planned, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was wrong to "flippantly dismiss" Shinseki's estimate as being "far from the mark."
[The Moderate Voice] Further On Down The Road: The Historic Importance Of The Powell ...: Still, endorsing Obama is a kind of act of courage that Powell never encountered on the battlefield or in a war room. It also is an overdue one since lives ”” perhaps many thousands of lives ”” could have been saved in Iraq if he had put .
[Flopping Aces] Iraqi government fuels ”˜war for oil’ theories by putting reserves ...: * With Al Queda’s #1 and #2 leaders pinned in Waziristan/Pakistan, as a means of going after the Al Queda’s #3 man, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, who had already attempted to kill hundreds of thousands in London, Rome, Paris, and Jordan using chemical and biological weapons via training he had been given from Saddam
[Integral Psychosis] Like Being Trampled By Horses”¦: Well, if you’re Nick Morgan, a veteran from the War in Iraq and member of the IVAW, not only did you go through feeling quite like this, you actually almost got killed when an officer from the Nassau Count Police Department’s horse stepped on your head after he knocked you to the ground, because you went to the last presidential debate to protest -legally and peacefully- the candidate’s lack of focus and clarity about the war that has torn a part thousands of families throughout this land.
[The Pakistan Policy Blog] Pakistan and Afghanistan Forecast: Partly Cloudy with a Couple ...: review of the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan has already begun and he has the political and institutional legitimacy to give both the public and policymakers some tough medicine (see below). Diplomatic and military officials outside of the U.S. have already begun this process. They have come to terms with the fact that foreign occupations don’t last long in Afghanistan, a nation made of quicksand. Many NATO member states have finally looked at a map and realized the Afghanistan is a long way from the north Atlantic. It was a strategic blunder for the United States to get itself stuck in a landlocked Central Asian state, and antagonizing Iran, Russia, and Uzbekistan.
[Kern Co. Media Won't Speak Truth, So I Will: Local News Papers=Scum, Local News Stations=Scum, Local Talk Radio=Scum - Infowar's Blog - Bakersfield.com] Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on US Streets Ready to Carry Out ...: U.S. troops returning from duty in Iraq will be carrying out homeland patrols in America from October 1st in complete violation of Posse Comitatus for the purposes of helping with “civil unrest and crowd control” - which could include dealing with unruly Americans after a complete economic collapse.
[Veer Right Weblog] Colin Powell Vindicated: would have been to tolerate a continuing destabilizing arms race in the gulf, including future nuclearization of the region, threats to the world’s energy supplies, leakage of WMD technology and expertise to terrorist networks, systematic sabotage of efforts to create and sustain a process of peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the continued terrorizing of the Iraqi people.”
[americasnewstoday.Com /.Org - Industry's First Blog-Format News and Editorial Site] Gates Swears In Donley as New Air Force Secretary: The Air Force’s current and future tasks, Gates said, include "restoring trust in the Air Force’s stewardship of the most-sensitive part of our arsenal - nuclear weapons and nuclear-related materials - modernizing the aging fighter and tanker fleets, protecting the ”˜global commons’ of the 21st century - space and cyber space - and making the most-effective use of air power in counterinsurgency operations, while maintaining strategic deterrence and technological superiority as a hedge against rising powers."
[Coaches Hot Seat Blog] The Day of Battle and the Clemson players - Winningest Coaches at ...: Many of these young men and women would love to have the opportunity to attend a school like Clemson, especially if they were on a full athletic scholarship, so both the Clemson football players and the people commentating on the situation at Clemson with the firing of Tommy Bowden need to make sure that their comments reflect the realities of the real world that many of our young people have to deal with everyday.
[Blog] This is how we treat our Veterans: The only significant and tangible moral and material forces in this period actively bringing us closer to Peace are the Iraqi, Afghani, Lebanese and Palestinian Resistance movements - by continuing to defeat the US, UK and Israeli forces on the battlefield. At a tremendous cost in lives.
[Funny blog] Further On Down The Road: The Historic Importance Of The Powell ...: In my one face-to-face encounter with Colin Powell, I could not take my eyes off of the ribbons cascading down the left breast of his dress greens. The other memory that I take away from this encounter following a White House briefing by President Reagan’s national security adviser was the sense that beneath Powell’s calm exterior burned a fire of great intensity that he banked with the same care that he measured his words.
[Adityassociates's Weblog] The Great President: I remember one day, when I was in first grade, by looking through a newspaper - with the help of the adults in our house- I read the news of the capitulation passage by the shah’s so called “parliament.” Even though I did not understand the meaning of that issue at that time, but due to the protests and the objections of the religious schools of thoughts with the leadership of Imam Khomeini -Almighty God bless his soul- and the relentless reaction of the extinct shah, I realized that Mohammad Reza attempted to add another page to his vicious case history which was the humiliation and indignity of the Iranian people versus Americans. That was the year that the extinct shah slaughtered many followers of Imam Khomeini.
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