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[Daily Mole » Twin Cities] Obama the war candidate: His Wilson Center speech: To the assembled foreign affairs crowd at Wilson, Obama demurred that he only wanted to get out of Iraq to wage war on worthier fronts, even if it means sending missiles or missions into the nuclear-armed, and unstable, state of Pakistan:

 [Dandelion Salad] There Is No “War on Terror” by Edward S. Herman & David Peterson: Time and again the United States and Israel have violated this fundamental international law during the past decade, and they are clearly the global leaders in state-terrorism that many observers believe to be the main force inspiring a global resistance and spurring on various forms of Islamic terrorism, including Al Qaeda. But instead of focusing on the causal wars and state-terrorism, following the U.S. lead the UN and international community have focused on the lesser and derivative terrorism, and taken the “war on terror”

 [Electric Politics] There Is No "War on Terror": The global American gulag of secret prisons and torture centers to which an unknown number of people have been sent, held without trial, worked over and sometimes killed as well as tortured, is located in many countries: The "spider's web" first described by a Council of Europe investigation identified landings and takeoffs at no fewer than 30 airports on four different continents;[33] and earlier research by Human Rights First estimated that the United States was operating dozens of major and lesser known detention centers as part of its "war on terror": These included the obvious cases of Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq, the U.S. Air Force base at Bagram in Afghanistan, Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, and other suspected centers in Pakistan, Jordan, Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, and on U.S. Navy ships at sea.[34] Still others are operated by client and other states at the torture-producing end of the "extraordinary rendition" chain (Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Morocco). Given the vastness of this U.S. enterprise, surely we are talking about tens-of-thousands of prisoners, a great many picked-up and tortured based on rumor, the inducement of bonus payments, denunciations in vendettas, and accidents of name or location.[35] We know that a great majority of those imprisoned in sweeps in Iraq were taken without the slightest information on wrong-doing even on aggressor-occupier terms.[36] There is strong anecdotal evidence that suggests that the same is true in Afghanistan.

 [letters from GOD] Life Experiences: Paul Wolfowitz named to chair advisory panel 24 Jan 2008 Paul Wolfowitz, an architect of the Iraq war who was forced to resign from the World Bank because of an ethics scandal, will chair a US advisory panel on arms control, .

[stormwarning's Counterterrorism] The State of the Union Address - Defining the Enemy (or not): Never forget, while many Americans remain confused, that Iraq is but one battleground of this Long War against the Islamic Fundamentalist jihad. Our enemy has the resolve to fight for decades…do not be deluded by body counts and kills rates of al Qaeda or Taliban fighters in one battle or another.

[Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq] Collateral Damage: Surveillance Aimed at Terrorists Can Easily Go Awry: At a conference in Paris a few years ago, I asked a top counterterrorism official if he needed special legislation or judicial warrants to plant spies in mosques or wiretap citizens.

 [James Logan Courier - News Every Day, Year-round] Diverse national security issues define presidential campaigns: Republicans Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter, Rudy Giuliani and McCain largely favor the administration's aggressive response to terrorism overseas and its domestic surveillance, though Huckabee has criticized the administration's "arrogance" and "bunker mentality" in declaring that other nations are "with us or against us."

 [letters from GOD] Life Experiences: US says Iran still training Iraqi militias 21 Jan 2008 The US military said on Sunday there had been a dramatic drop in the number of Iranian weapons being used in Iraq but no .

[Blah3 Feed] Today’s Headlines: Army gets fewer high school grads in '07WASHINGTON - The percent of Army recruits with a high school diploma dropped last year, continuing a trend that has worsened since the start of the Iraq war, according to a report released Tuesday .

[United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) - Pentagon Blog] Pentagon Clocks Capture The Ongoing 9/11 Lies: April Gallop, an Army employee with a Top Secret clearance, was at her desk in the Army administrativeoffices in the west section of the Pentagon on 9/11, the area of the building most heavily destroyed, when whatshe said sounded and felt "like a bomb" went off. "Being in the Army with the training I had, I know what abomb sounds and acts like, especially the aftermath, and it sounded and acted like a bomb.

[Erkan's field diary] Turkish judiciary at its best: As PM Erdogan puts the last touches on a new constitution drawn by AKP, president of Turkey’s highest court Hasim Kilic said that Turkey does not need a brand new constitution. In his interviews with the business daily Referans and the mainstream daily Milliyet, Kilic suggested that by making amendments to certain articles that need change, the existing constitution can satisfactorily be modified."

[Just Foreign Policy News] Just Foreign Policy News, December 12, 2007: The Shi’ite factions that have feuded over control of Iraq’s southern oil hub Basra have proclaimed a truce, but the challenge will come soon when Britain hands responsibility for the province to Iraqi forces. The handover of security in Basra, expected next week, will be the biggest test yet of the Iraqi government’s ability to maintain order without relying on U.S. or British soldiers.

[UNITED STATES SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND - USSOCOM] USD - University of San Diego School of Law - Pentagon Blog: Immediately after the second WTC tower was struck at 9:03 am, Andrews and his aide left his office andran as fast as they could down to the Secretary of Defense’s West section basement Counterterrorism Center (CTC),beneath the ground−level location of the violent event in the building that morning, arriving at approximately 9:10.While he and his aide were in this west side basement CTC, a violent event caused the ceiling tiles to fall off theceiling and smoke to pour into the room. Andrews immediately looked at his watch, which read approximately 9:35am but which was set fast to ensure timely arrival at meetings, so the actual time was closer to 9:32.

[Divided Nation Under Auction] Before Thanksgiving This Website Will Expose Every Corrupt Bribe ...: Since the Iraq war, the Islamic State of Turkey has turned vehemently anti-American. Their fears of George Bush the so called evangelical Christian president has grown out and spilled over into movies.

 [portland indymedia - 9.11 investigation newswire] Who is Dick Cheney?: The existence of a June 2002 memo—revealing that intelligence from the INC was being sent directly to the offices of Dick Cheney and William Luti—is reported in the December 15 issue of Newsweek magazine, which also reports that Francis Brooke, a DC lobbyist for the INC, admits having supplied Cheney's office with information pertaining to Iraq's alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and Saddam's supposed ties to militant Islamic groups. [Newsweek, 12/15/2003 Sources: Memo, Francis Brooke] Furthermore, he acknowedges that the information provided by the INC was driven by an agenda.

 [BLACKFIVE] The Weekly Surge Wrap & some 97.1 TALK Radidio: David Petraeus is working or not, I returned to Iraq to see for myself.This trip - from which I returned this month - was my fourth reporting stint in the country since the conflict began. And this time, what I saw was overwhelming, undeniable and, like it or not, complicated: In some places, the surge is working remarkably well.

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