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[Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] US troops no longer needed in northern Iraq: general: His upbeat comments reinforced suggestions from the former commander in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, who said recently that progress in transferring security duties to local forces could mean a large contingent of American troops would not be required to contain tensions.

[Centurean2's Weblog] War on Error: How Israel Bankrupted America | Centurean2?s ...: In an article entitled “9/11 revisited”, I summarized 21 questions raised by David Ray Griffin’s book, The New Pearl Harbour Revisited. In that work, Griffin pointed out unequivocally that virtually every dimension of the official account of 9/11 was false beyond reasonable doubt.

[INCMOVIE] We Were Soldiers (Widescreen Edition) Reviews | INCMOVIE: Inglourious Basterds (Two-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray] Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino’s high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds. As war rages in Europe, .

[Wings Over Iraq] WoI Brief | Wings Over Iraq: As Syrian army defectors begin launching attacks on government forces, Syria's largely peaceful rebellion appears in danger of descending into a sectarian civil war with wider regional consequences. – Reuters.

[The prison gates are open...] Marxism & Bourgeois Nationalism « The prison gates are open…: Following the consolidation of Ba’ath rule in Iraq, the ICP experienced two separate waves of repression: one in 1963 following the coup and the subsequent unrest, and the other in 1977, led by Saddam. (5) Historian Bob Feldman writes in a February 2006 piece on Iraq that “By March 1963, an estimated 10,000 Communist Party of Iraq members had been arrested by the Ba’th regime and many imprisoned Iraqi leftist activists were not treated gently.” (6) Quoting Said Aburish’s book, “A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite”, Feldman continues:

[Wings Over Iraq] Hybrid War | Wings Over Iraq: Dealing with the Little Satan Hiz'B'Allah rocket war of '06 with a decidedly American view of the conflict -it's way better than Candian Parliament or the Golf Channel and super sure to get your brain all cranked up. Yours truly plots to disseminate the deets and break them open like .

[3CHICSPOLITICO] Serendipity SOUL | Friday Open Thread | 3CHICSPOLITICO: Large numbers of US troops are no longer needed on the ground in northern Iraq to defuse Arab-Kurdish tensions and have begun handing over control to local forces, a US commander said Thursday. Army Major General David Perkins, who leads 5,000 US troops deployed in northern Iraq, said the American contingent has gradually withdrawn from checkpoints that it had overseen to prevent clashes between Kurdish troops and Iraqi army and police.

[Indian Punchline] Iraq joins the US supply chain - Indian Punchline: This is also what distinguishes big powers from not-so-big powers like India (with its liberation war in East Pakistan or its IPKF war in Sri Lanka). 

[Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Stephen Hill, a gay soldier serving in Iraq - guardian.co.uk: Though students at Harvard had been allowed to participate in the program in the past, alumni donations, rather than the university, previously funded Harvard's ROTC branch, according to Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences James Glaser, who serves as Tufts' ROTC representative on campus.

[To Build Solar Panel] The Debate is Over « To Build Solar Panel: Indeed, it is precisely because the climate crisis is so profound that we need to encourage the American debate on the subject to move on, finally and for good, and start to focusing on how to build a bright green future as quickly as possible. The science, after all, is pretty unequivocal at this point.

[Immelman for Congress] Immelman for Congress » Blog Archive » U.S. Forces Pull Back in Iraq: Iraqi forces assumed formal control of Baghdad and other cities Tuesday after American troops handed over security in urban areas in a defining step toward ending the U.S. combat role in the country. A countdown clock broadcast on Iraqi TV ticked to zero as the midnight deadline passed for U.S. combat troops to finish their pullback to bases outside cities.

[Gadling] Not to Forget: the Kuwaiti Museum of Saddam Hussain Regime ...: Case in point: after being taken through a dozen or so Iraqi-occupation-themed dioramas that could rival a junior high science fair in its level of sophistication, we were ushered into a room showing graphic photos of Kuwaiti war injuries, and, eventually, a room whose centerpiece was a giant bust of Mr. Hussain himself, which the docent proudly said was donated by US troops after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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