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[BAGnewsNotes] Chris Hondros on “The Hurt Locker” ”” BagNews: James’s chummy relationship with an Iraqi boy on base is only tenuously explored, but when he finds that the boy has been killed he implausibly removes his uniform and goes AWOL, running off alone into central Baghdad on a vigilante mission.  It gets worse:  James, wildly waving his pistol, bursts into an Iraqi home he suspects has some relation to the murder, only to find himself staring at an urbane, multi-lingual Iraqi man, with whom he has a confusing and remarkably calm conversation. 

[Raw Story] 18 veterans kill themselves every day: report | Raw Story: Mark Weber: Whatever the secondary reasons for the war, the crucial factor in the decision to attack Iraq was to help Israel. With support from Israel and Americaâ€â™s Jewish-Zionist lobby, and prodded by high-level Jewish “neo-conservatives” in the Bush administration, President Bush and Vice President Cheney –

[Marijuana.com - The Drug War Headline News] CA: Marijuana, Boom and Bust - Marijuana.com: On March 25, 2010, California officials announced that 523,531 signatures – almost 100,000 more than required – had been validated in support of a state initiative to legalize marijuana and allow it to be sold and taxed, no small fiscal allurement in budget-stricken California. (Many growers, zealous not to get on the wrong side of the IRS and the state tax board, declare “agricultural” revenues in some form dependant on the creativity of their accountant or lawyer.

[BLEEDtheSOUL] President Obama Bestows Presidential Unit Citation on the ...: No, Bush was in some ways just an idiot, not a muslim,. Odumba is nothing but a slime bag communist piece of shit.

[BAGnewsNotes] But He Really Hasn't Done Anything Yet ”” Right? ”” BagNews: He didn’t promise to do anything different from what Bush and Cheney were already doing. There’s a tipping point when the number of people with no investment at all in political stability exceeds the number of people who like things just as they are.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Arlington's Section 60 for Iraq, Afghan war dead becomes a ...: Unlike the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, where the National Park Service collects and stores such objects daily, Arlington is a working military cemetery with strict rules to keep it pristine. Because there were no collection procedures in place, most of the items left at grave sites simply ended up in the trash.

[911Blogger.com] Iraq War Vet: "We Were Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers ...: "I remember one woman walking by," said Jason Washburn, a corporal in the US Marines who served three tours in Iraq. He told the audience at the Winter Soldier hearings that took place March 13-16, 2008, in Silver Spring, Maryland, "She was carrying a huge bag, and she looked like she was heading toward us, so we lit her up with the Mark 19, which is an automatic grenade launcher, and when the dust settled, we realized that the bag was full of groceries.

[TROOP SCOOP] TROOP SCOOP: Daily Afghan-Iraq Update/4-19: A veteran of the Vietnam War, Halevy also is a distinguished helicopter pilot, both militarily and commercially, flying more than 6,270 accident-free hours.  Still, despite his vast experience and notable success as an aviator, Halevy's focus has centered on safety. "I did it.

[BAGnewsNotes] Beyond the Rah-Rah (For a Change) ”” BagNews: We know now that Iraq was justified with lies, and it did nothing to make us safer, and much to increase hostility towards the US, making us less safe. And we know that Afghanistan was badly mismanaged, because of the distractions from Iraq, and that we failed to catch the ringleaders behind 9/11, and that, like Iraq, our presence there does much to increase hostility towards the US, making us less safe.

[Thomas PM Barnett :: Weblog] A short chapter in "Iraq Uncensored: Perspectives," edited by Dr ...: As a result, adversarial non-state actors should recalculate assumptions about the desirability of attracting America's entry into perceived quagmires. Socializing your fight internationally doesn't elicit the binary benefits of the cold war, and if the Americans cannot be bled to exhaustion in any one conflict and will simply refuse to participate in additional ones once their perceived operational bandwidth is tapped, luring them into "imperial overreach" is unlikely to yield victory within an acceptable time frame.

[The Best Defense] Relearning guerrilla warfare - By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense: There is still a minority of historians who accept it, but they are in the minority. Suggest you have a look at Gary Hess’s excellent book-length historiographical sketch of the literature and also Andy Birtle’s award winning Journal of Military History article of last year titled “PROVN and the Historians.”

[Openers - cleveland.com] Mandel headed back to Iraq | Openers Archive Site - cleveland.com: I respect the guy but his district should not have to suffer in any form just because the guy wants to serve in IRAQ- he can go out there and believe that he is doing well to serve the States by going to a war that he and BUSH - The president Dick Channey has orquestrated but if he wants and has further ambition he should do it on his own and not continue taking our Tax Dollars out of the very own people he is suppose to help!!

[Rethink Afghanistan War Blog] Bagram Prison Exposed - Rethink Afghanistan War Blog: The Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan are just some of the consequences of U.S. meddling in the region's affairs since the 1950s and the development of the Mideast and south Asia oil industry -- the assassination of Iran's Mosadegh, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. equipping the mujahadeen--who later mutated into the Taliban and Al Qaeda--as anti-Soviet guerrilla fighters, then the Iran-Iraq war (the U.S. of course supplying Saddam, including some of those pesky gas WMDs the conveniently amnesiac Neocons were so incensed about), then the invasion of Iraq and now this unresolvable mess in Afghanistan. This is a fire the U.S. cannot put out with weapons, only with patience, openness and a *lot* of infrastructure money.

[no cure for that] Collateral Murder in Iraq (WikiLeaks video exposes 2007 US Apache ...: It is commonplace to refer to veterans of the Vietnam War, the Afghan War, the Iraq War, the “war on terror”, as heroes. Are Veterans heroes?

[Rethink Afghanistan War Blog] Tell the House Armed Services Committee to read Eikenberry's ...: As re "longing" for the antebellum days of the South, my ancestors were in Germany back then and it seems that it was White gentiles of European ancestry who gave us our Constitution that people of your ilk seem to regard as such a joke: What you refer to as a "multiracial nation", is in fact no more than a catch basin and septic tank for all of the nonwhite wretched refuse of the universe and the current "government of a free people" is so jew rotted and infested that America should have a new flag-----a dollar sign in piss yellow circumscribed by the Mogen David, also in piss yellow all on a field of shit brown. "Multiracialism" is what brought down the Egyptian Empire and 26 other civilizations in history just in case you didn't happen to know it and you are lobotomized by the public FOOL system to think America is any different?

[The Conservative Word] The Iraq War is Won | The Conservative Word: It is a country with an educated workforce, oil, millions of entrepreneurs, a transparent legal system, and it is a society which is not degenerating into civil war, or partition - contrary to many and sundry geniuses who stated the opposite for 4 years. Iraq 2009 will be generations ahead of Iraq pre-2003 without American intervention, including the hundred’s of thousands of lives saved from the barbarity of a fascist regime - one which murdered 1 million Iraqi’s over 20 years, or 25 times the current kill rate per annum in Iraq.

[Rethink Afghanistan War Blog] President Obama to Request Another $33 Billion for Unpopular Wars ...: What we really should do is allow for our enemies to use Afghanistan as their home base at the least this way we would have a way of monitoring them. We won't need an entire army to do that which would save all kinds of money.

[Dvorak Uncensored] » WATCH: U.S. Military Shooting Down Civilians in Iraq Dvorak ...: They were 100M from the camera men and the guys with unconcealed weapons. Air support came re-confirmed weapons, also mistook the cameras for weapons, engaged and killed insurgents and camera men, a follow on Bradley confirmed weapons and ammunition were there, also found the cameras, returned cameras to Reuters.

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