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[The Best Defense] General Jack Keane: War is over - By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense: Samir Sumaida'ie, the Iraqi ambassador to the United States, gave aneloquent talk in which he took hope from his view that the Americans of 2009are not the same as the clumsy Americans who invaded his country in 2003."America has changed .through experience,"

[Army Times - News] Congress reaches compromise on war funding - Army News, news from ...: To reassure Democratic moderates who had balked at House demands that Congress not interfere in a lawsuit to force the release of photos of U.S. troops abusing detainees, Obama promised to use every available means to block their release. His powers include issuing an order to classify the photos, thus blocking their release under the Freedom of Information Act.

[Antiwar.com Original] The US Should Have Better Relations with Iran by Ivan Eland ...: the United States panicked, sent troops to South Korea, and became involved in a stalemated war.  In the 1980s, needing an enemy to justify big increases in the U.S. defense budget, Ronald Reagan began harassing Libya, which only resulted in blowback terrorist attacks against U.S. targets.   Of course, the U.S. build up of the Saddam monster had been long forgotten after the monster turned ugly and invaded the tiny nation of Kuwait.  Although even if Saddam had taken Saudi Arabia, oil would have flowed because the commodity is valuable, Saddam was in dire financial straits, and he would have had to sell it.  After the United States severely crippled the much smaller and poorer Iraq in the first Gulf War — removing any remaining hyped threat to Persian Gulf oil —

[The Gaea News] At least 632 US military deaths in Afghanistan region since 2001 ...: As of Friday, June 12, 2009, at least 632 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m.

[Iraqs Inconvenient Truth :: Iraq War News Updates] Iraqs Inconvenient Truth :: Iraq War News Updates » Blog Archive ...: This is precisely what Ronald Reagan meant in 1975 at CPAC when he said, “we cannot have pale pastels, we need bold colors.” The fact is that if you go to the country with a genuine free market opportunity and you’re prepared to win the argument in the Margaret Thatcher phrase, “That first you win the argument, and then you win the vote.” And you go to the average small business in this country - you want to reach out to African Americans, to Koreans, to Vietnamese, to Chinese, to Indians, to Latinos - you go to every small business in America and say, “Hi, if we cut your Social Security and Medicare tax by 50 percent and we cut your match as the employer, would you have more money? Would that be better than giving the money to General Motors?

[FP Passport] The Iraq War gets the Colbert bump | FP Passport: Again, there's nothing wrong with Colbert making great television or Newsweek selling magazines, and I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for troops in Iraq to see the dwindling media coverage of their efforts, but I'm not quite sure that attention on its own, particularly with Colbert himself hogging the spotlight, is really going to do much for them.

[AlterNet.org] Obama vs. McCain: Iraq, Afghanistan and the Treatment of Veterans ...: They do not seek to weigh in on what Iraqis should do to address the internal strife in their country (or how to spend the billions of dollars of oil revenues that U.S. politicians like to say should be used on reconstruction.) The recommendations in this guide rest on a belief that Iraqi sovereignty and self-determination -- as well as the well-being of American troops -- rely foremost on an end to the U.S. occupation. And they encourage the rethinking of American military power, particularly the so-called War on Terror, which, from its inception, has sought to legitimize a bankrupt foreign policy based on pre-emptive war.

[Stars and Stripes] U.S. troops transitioning out of Iraq's cities crowd onto same ...: Vandeventer arrived Monday from Suleikh, a joint U.S.-Iraqi security station that Americans are vacating as part of the plan to pull back from Iraq’s cities by June 30. The same day, about 150 U.S. soldiers officially moved out of a similar base called Basateen in eastern Baghdad.

[Centurean2's Weblog] The Fabian War Claims More Blood- Another British Soldier ...: ”˜There are a variety of reasons, but it might be that ministers had not appreciated the extent of inquest waiting times and that could partly explain why these casualties went missing. But it is particularly important that when we are talking about service personnel who have given their lives for their country we get it right’, said Bird, whose previous study, published in the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, caused embarrassment for defence officials by revealing that the army was dismissing the equivalent of almost a battalion of soldiers every year for taking drugs.

[You Served® - Veteran and Military Blog and Military Podcast] On Loan at You Served Welcomes former Iraq Resident Dr. Diane ...: Hassan lived through the Iraq-Iran War and the first Desert Storm War. It was finally in 1993 when her family opted to move back to the United States, a move that almost cost her husband his life after Saddam Hussein tried to have him killed.

[Brave New Films blog] Video: Revealed: Blackwater Still Working in Iraq for John McCain ...: But beyond the specifics of her lawsuits, Burke is also alleging Blackwater/Xe remains firmly entrenched in Iraq, using affiliate companies like Greystone. She also says Blackwater is working for a “non-profit” organization, started under the Reagan administration, with a history of interference in internal affairs and elections of various nations, including allegations it helped foment a coup in Haiti: the International Republican Institute.

[The Gaea News] War-funding bill back on track for passage after Obama promises to ...: War funding bill gets sidetrackedWASHINGTON ”” President Barack Obama's penchant for last-minute demands, and a rebellion by liberal allies over his efforts to block the release of detainee abuse photos, have combined to sidetrack his bill to pay for an expanded war in Afghanistan as well as continuing military operations in Iraq. The $100 billion measure is awaiting a House-Senate conference committee after winning easy approval last month in both chambers, but an emerging compromise on the bill has become caught in the crosscurrents coming from both Obama's left and right on Capitol Hill.

[The Caucus] Democrats Link War Spending Votes to Flu Funds - The Caucus Blog ...: “We face a situation fraught with uncertainty,” Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, wrote to Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, on Thursday to thank him for including the flu money in the spending bill. “While we can’t know for sure what will happen this fall, public health experts suggest that the likelihood of a more significant outbreak in the fall is significant - a scenario that could place unprecedented demands on our public health system.”

[Room for Debate] The Colbert Effect and Troop Morale - Room for Debate Blog ...: Those armies were composed overwhelmingly of recruits or draftees who served only for the war: “citizen-soldiers.” Today’s military is peopled by much more highly trained men (and women) who think of themselves not only as citizens but as professionals even though many will serve only one “hitch.” They are led by much more professional officers and above all by skilled, experienced, long-service non-commissioned officers who are in many respects the backbone of the armed forces.

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