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[Troop Scoop] Dear Interested Reader, The 137th QM Co are morale boosters for ...: With improved security, life at the Baghdad zoo returns to normal. Civil military missions make a difference for the people in Hayy.
[Collected Miscellany] The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq by ...: In addition, in researching the book, West spent fifteen extended tours in six years in Iraq talking to those at the lowest level (squads of Marines and soldiers) and those at the highest level (division, corps, and army commanders).
[A Mobile News] War News for Tuesday, October 14, 2008: AMS issues fatwa prohibiting long-term pact:. Iraqi official calls US troop accord unlikely: The UN mandate that authorizes the US military presence in Iraq will .
[Peace Like A River] Cables, dispatches and memoranda: The Changing World - The BBC’s Owen Bennett-Jones assesses al-Qaeda’s hard military capabilities in its key battlegrounds: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. He speaks with soldiers, spies and scholars on both sides, and was given rare access inside Pakistan’s secretive intelligence agency.
[The Common Ills] Ralph Nader explains the basics of peace: In this article about the true causes of sectarian violence in Iraq, Will Van Wagenen debunks the myth of Iraq’s ‘longstanding’ sectarian hatred and exposes the real architects behind the violence: the United States government. Without this supposedly ethical reason for staying in Iraq, it is clear that we need Nader’s plan for complete military and corporate withdrawal that gives sovereignty back to the Iraqi people.
[Marine Corps Community for USMC Veterans] 'Red Museum' tells of Iraq's tortured past: Members of the U.S. Army’s 418th Civil Affairs Battalion and their civilian counterparts on the Kirkuk Provincial Reconstruction Team recently toured the museum, located in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government zone.
[Dr. Red Eye] How McCain can still win this election: Although social issues are lower on the scale for undecided voters, Obama’s stance on such procedures as the cruel partial-birth abortions should cause those voters to think twice about Obama. While he has this image of a clean-cut family man, this other side of Obama …his heartlessness and lack of compassion for the innocent, defenseless babies who are barbarically murdered…
[SWJ Blog] 14 October SWJ Roundup: We interpret reality through the clouded prism of our own experience, so it is unsurprising that Bing West sees Iraq through the lens of Vietnam. He served as a Marine officer there, and he thinks politicians and the media caused the American public to turn against a war that could have been won.
[Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies] Common Ground Newsbulletin 7-13 October 2008: The coming elections may affect the future dynamics of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, the profile of energy saving and the pace of the Arab-Israeli peace process. But regardless of which party is in the White House in January 2009, the United States will need to continue to work with many Muslim majority countries on a host of broad issues, and to consider Muslim Americans important within the mosaic of political constituencies and vital to the American social mix.
[THE ELECTRIC MORNING SHOW] Save Ratchet and other Baghdad Pups!: Beberg as the military cracks down on animal friendships the y consider to be harmful. SPCA International strongly disagrees, citing medical studies and military insiders who testify to the mental health benefits animals bring to their soldier companions in times of depression and crisis.
[CaelynTek Blog] Just one of many reasons”¦: Here is just one of many reasons why John McCain as president WOULD be disastrous to us and the world. I had noticed through watching several of John McCain’s speeches about the war in Iraq, that it seems he is still stuck in Vietnam, and is superimposing the Vietnam war onto the war in Iraq.
[Photojournalism Links] Updates: You know what you signed up for.” Sergeant Matthis Chiroux, a military reporter who has become a vocal opponent of the Iraq war, says that he and others like him “take our activism as a continuation of our oath of service.” Like many who enlist, Johannsen and Chiroux come from military families. Sergeant John McKay, a marine whose uncle and grandfather were marines, and whose three-year-old son posed in uniform at the wedding of a cousin, also a marine, said, “He’s just waiting till he’s eighteen.” He went on, “I’m scared for him, but if he wants to do it I’ll support him.””
[Global News Blog Headlines] Middle East News - In Iran, 3 Degrees of Separation From Truth: The Turkish military Sunday accused Iraqi Kurds of aiding Turkish Kurdish rebels holed up in their autonomous enclave in northern Iraq after the militants killed at least 15 soldiers in a daytime attack near the border.
[Kpsilverman's Weblog] Desperate Times Call For Desperate Actions (or Attack of the ...: This history of obedience and loyalty led him to serve in a dishonorable war in Vietnam, pledge his unwavering support for our current dishonorable war in Iraq, and now engage in this dishonorable war on the American democratic system.
[Don't Trip Over This Blog] Make-Believe Maverick: In fact, his own statements show that he has been on both sides of a host of vital issues: the Bush tax cuts, the estate tax, waterboarding, hunting down terrorists in Pakistan, kicking Russia out of the G-8, a surge of troops into Afghanistan, the GI Bill, storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, teaching intelligent design, fully funding No Child Left Behind, offshore drilling, his own immigration policy and withdrawal timelines for Iraq.
[SWJ Blog] 9 October SWJ Roundup: The theme would be applying these ideas to conflict in the post-Iraq era, and more specifically to the types of diffused, networked, “open source” armed conflicts that some have called “fifth generation warfare.” We are also interested in exploring solutions, such as the role of “resilient communities” (RC), for countering them. As Oil and food prices have climbed and the mortgage crisis has grown, the need to think more about Resilient Communities has become more urgent.
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