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[The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment] US wants Iraq to pay bill for war victims | The Daily Caller ...: Christopher Crowley, USAID director in Iraq, said the push for Iraqis to take over the U.S. victims aid program is part of a general trend for all American assistance programs here. The U.S. is “seeking a larger contribution from the (Iraqi) government to these programs so they will become more sustainable as time goes on,”

[Sharp Right Turn] ” While the dollar cost of war is good for a hot headline on a ...: But reality is, the wars we are fighting today are expensive, but relative to other wars, they are less costly for the amount of money available.    And, aside from the fact that Americans involved in war saves American lives, the defense of our country is one of the FEW things for which the US Government should actually be spending our money.

[The Total Collapse] The War on Iraq : Five US Presidents, Five British Prime Ministers ...: On 17th January the forty two day assault on Iraq began, as now well documented, deliberately destroying all infrastructure necessary to sustain society, including the deliberate targeting of all water purification facilities, with an exact time line of how long it would take Iraq’s complex water system “to fully degrade” issued to all NATO Command Headquarters.(2) Somewhere in Iraq’s ashes lay all the painstakingly crafted legal Treaties, Conventions and Principles, on war crimes and treatment of civilians in conflict, never to surface again, as far as the US and UK were concerned, arguably now officially signed up to “rogue state”

[Interest of the State] Last year, 10999 terrorist attacks worldwide | Interest of the State: In reviewing the report’s findings with reporters Thursday, State Department counterterrorism coordinator Daniel Benjamin sought to highlight a silver lining in the shift of terrorist activity to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He cited a considerable increase in “Al Qaeda and affiliated” militants killed in Pakistani government operations and called it the result of a formerly reluctant ally in the battle with terrorism becoming “a front-line counterterrorism partner.”

[Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news] Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq: In fact, being from another planet, he might even have picked up on something that most Americans would be unlikely to notice -- that, with only slight alterations, Mullen’s blistering comment about Assange could be applied remarkably well to Mullen himself. “Chairman Mullen,” that Martian might have responded, “can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he is doing, but the truth is he already has on his hands the blood of some young soldiers and that of many Afghan families.”

[War Is A Crime .org] So Please Tell Me Again: | War Is A Crime .org: UBL was evidently not responsible for 9/11 and it therefore is not likely that the Al Qaeda people who were with him in Afghanistan were responsible. BUT the US Army's very special intelligence gathering team that was called Able Danger and which evidently was shut down in a highly criminal way by the Bush Jr-Cheney administration had clear proof that members of the CIA and/or FBI worked with Saudis the CIA, FBI and/or State Dept made sure got in to the US.

[911 Blogger News Feed] So please tell me again: What's the war about? By William Blum ...: I'm reminded of this by the recent news report about Hans Blix, former chief United Nations weapons inspector, who led a doomed hunt for WMD in Iraq. Last week he told the British inquiry into the March 2003 invasion that those who were "100 percent certain there were weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq turned out to have "less than zero percent knowledge" of where the purported hidden caches might be.

[Antemedius - Liberally Critical Thinking] Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and ...: As for the men who oversaw the endless wars that produced that video (and, without doubt, many similar ones similarly cloaked in the secrecy of "national security"), their fates are no less sure. When Admiral Mullen relinquishes his post and retires, he will undoubtedly have the choice of lucrative corporate boards to sit on, and, if he cares to, lucrative consulting to do for the Pentagon or eager defense contractors, as well as an impressive pension to take home with him. 

[Docudharma - Front Page] Docudharma:: HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq ...: Tilton 23 Decatur, Illinois, USA Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Died on July 16, 2010, at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, of wounds sustained while treating a fellow paratrooper as the rest of the unit repelled a complex attack by insurgents on the Afghan National Civil Order Police Headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on July 13, 2010. Three other soldiers also were killed during the attack.

[SWJ Blog] 11 August SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): But many Iraqi officials deem it quietly necessary on a number of fronts: Iraq is buying more and more sophisticated American weapons, like tanks and warplanes, and will need Americans here for training and maintenance. At the same time, training is intensifying for the Iraq Army to learn not only how to battle internal insurgents, but also how to protect its national borders - a project that will take many years.

[Rethink Afghanistan War Blog] War Propaganda: Soldiers Become Pawns For The Powerful - Rethink ...: TIME magazine follows the Pentagon movement, reiterating the Bush administration's rhetoric. Recall, the Iraq war genius Donald Rumsfeld and former first lady Laura Bush's chatter about helping the woman of Afghanistan.

[Bradley Manning Support Network] Bradley Manning Support Network » Blog Archive » Please Don't ...: When you watch the video of the Apache attack, when you see the men on the street blown to pieces, when you watch the survivor, a Reuters photographer, unarmed and horribly injured, desperately trying to crawl to safety, when you see the van stop to help and watch its passengers mown down along with the struggling survivor, when you hear the video-game banter of the soldiers ”¦ I hope that you, too, will understand that what is being sacrificed in Iraq and Afghanistan is not only lives but also compassion, dignity, justice, hope and the potential for meaningful peace.

[nvs' Blog] Wikileaks Did More to Impact the Afghan War Than 9 Years of ...: A Washington Post editorial argued that the 195 deaths mentioned in the WikiLeaks files “do not constitute a shocking total for a four-year period.” This message was seconded by CBS correspondent Lara Logan, who explained that 195 deaths are nothing compared to the 2,000 deaths attributed to the Taliban.

[SWJ Blog] Significant Challenges in Iraq Remain Despite “End” Of U.S. Combat ...: The mess in which we find ourselves in Central Asia today is not unrelated to the decision to devote so many resources to an unnecessary war in the Persian Gulf at the expense of the war that began after the September 11 attacks. But despite earlier missteps, Presidents Bush and Obama have acted wisely since 2006 in responsibly bringing

[Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of Military Blogs (Milblogs)] permalink - Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of ...: As pundits debate the military, legal and political fallout from thousands of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan being made public by WikiLeaks, one conclusion seems indisputable: information technology has changed the nature of the government leak. In announcing the release of the documents, the Web site WikiLeaks said they were in several computer languages (HTML, CSV and SQL), as well as rendered in KML to be compatible with Google Earth.

[The Caucus] The Early Word: Primary Returns - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com: Obama has promised a complete withdrawal from Iraq by September 2011, Tim Arango writes that the reality in Iraq may necessitate a .Afghan War Front: The German military plans to launch an offensive against the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, where insurgents dominate, despite the risk of a political backlash at home.

[TomDispatch - Blog] Tomgram: Ann Jones on Bush's Poppy Wars in Afghanistan | TomDispatch: Like, to take an example, the way the Taliban now control the Pakistani border city of Quetta, a subject that went politely unmentioned recently when Bush entertained Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Afghanistan's Karzai at the White House. Like the way that Pakistan reluctantly hands over some al-Qaeda operatives to the U.S., but winks at routine Taliban cross-border traffic into Afghanistan.

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