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[truthout] t r u t h o u t | Democrats Cite Report on Troop Cuts in Iraq: White House and Pentagon officials declined to confirm the projections, saying only that Casey met with President Bush on Friday to discuss how the military might proceed in Iraq after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki forms a new government. It also followed particularly rancorous debates in the House and Senate, in which GOP lawmakers - with the encouragement of the White House - went after Democrats for being insufficiently supportive of the war effort and said that .

[Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news] Obama Surges War on Whistleblowers: And because our primary asset is the trust that sources have in us””we have a reputation for having never had a source publicly exposed, and as far as I know, that reputation is true””it looks to see whether they can publicly expose some of our sources, prosecute US military whistleblowers””and, in fact, it uses the phrase "whistleblowers," not people who are leaking indiscriminately””but prosecute US military whistleblowers in order to destabilize us and destroy what it calls our “center of gravity,” the trust that the public and sources have in us.

[Lawyers, Guns & Money] On Presidential Power, Foreign and Domestic : Lawyers, Guns & Money: that the old adage about winning all the battles but losing the war actually is based on something real, and that while the troop levels were sufficient to defeat the Iraqi army they weren’t actually sufficient to control the territory (which was what everyone who was telling him that the troop levels were insufficient knew was going to happen). But to think that Bush went to war with inadequate troop levels because Congress was standing in his way is to deny evidence –

[Iraq News and Information] A Heck of a Job: a Compassionate President, With a Bird's-eye View ...: Six Months Later: On the one-year anniversary of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, President Bush hovered for four-and-a-half minutes above rush-hour traffic in his presidential helicopter, Marine One, and blamed the Democrat-controlled Congress for it’s failure to repair the I-35W bridge. Later in the day, he defended his decision to veto a 5-cent gas tax that would have paid for replacing the bridge and repairing other aging bridges across the nation, claiming that the escalating, five-year-old, $500-billion war in Iraq was a higher priority.

[Marc Lynch] The hollow Arab core | Marc Lynch: The Arab leaders on which the U.S. relied mostly went along, cooperating to a considerable degree in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and siding against Hezbollah in the 2006 Israeli war with Lebanon and against Hamas during the 2008 Israeli attack on Gaza. But Arab public opinion was largely on the other side, with broad majorities of the population in most of those Arab countries angrily denouncing both the Israeli wars and their own leaders for the positions they took in line with American preferences.

[Crikey » Politics] Afghanistan: another 30 years? | Crikey: “Whereas it is widely recognised that the US-led war in Afghanistan is illegal under international law, because it was never authorised by the UN Security Council, most Americans have believed that it was morally justified as a response to the 9/11 attacks, and many believe it is still justified as a necessary means to prevent another attack originating from that region. My lecture will present evidence showing that both of these beliefs are untrue, so that the 9/11 Truth Movement and more traditional Peace and Anti-War groups should be able to combine forces to oppose this illegal and immoral war.”

[Trackpads Community] GCOM Summary 2010 June 18: A Sunni paramilitary leader, his wife and two of his sons were assassinated Thursday as attacks continued against members of the groups that helped U.S. troops defeat Al Qaeda in Iraq militants and bring an end to the country's sectarian war. Gunmen opened fire before dawn on the house of Khudair Hamad Saad, a prominent member of the Sunni Arab Awakening movement, in an area outside Fallouja in the western province of Anbar, police said.

[Swampland] The Obama Speech - Swampland - TIME.com: Bush's TARP fund (a success), produced an historic $787 billion stimulus package (also a success, but perhaps insufficient), signed an even more historic universal health insurance plan (too soon to tell about how successful) and is about to .But it isn't everything: George W.

[FACT - Freedom Against Censorship Thailand] US crackdown on whistleblowers-todos somos Julian!-Democracy Now ...: From the Guardian newspaper, it says that Wikileaks has this classified Pentagon video from Afghanistan alleged to show the notorious US airstrike on the village of Garani in May 2009 that killed roughly 140 civilians. While the US disputes the Afghan government’s casualty figure””it put the number at around twenty to thirty civilians””and said that twice as many militants had been killed in the strike, a military investigation concluded that US personnel made significant errors during the attacks.

[Close Protection Forum and Surveillance Forum] Iraq war badly planned - Bremer: The British public inquiry, headed by former civil servant John Chilcot, said it had questioned a number of US officials this month including Bremer, but only provided details of those who had agreed to have their names released publicly.

[my blog test] Tony Blair Ignored Iraq Warning, Top General Says: Britain is currently holding a public inquiry into the Iraq war disaster. The proceedings have been controversial from the start.

[truthout] t r u t h o u t | Marie Cocco | Watergate Without the Break-In: It is not even a political spat between the fired U.S. attorneys and Bush administration officials who deemed some of them insufficiently zealous in promoting the department's law enforcement priorities. Connect the dots and you see an .

[The Best Defense] Former Pentagon personnel official: The warrior units are holding ...: It boils down to a leadership problem that starts at the Pentagon with recruiting standards by those that will never serve with, nor spend the admin down time in command of these non-effectives, but thrust them on the end user, who also finds it convenient to dump them alongside otherwise fine people trying to recover.

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