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Category Archives: Military
Hersh: The Strategy to SELL a war with Iran
From Think Progress You can sell [this approach]. It’s more logical. You can say to people, the American people, we’re only hitting those people that we think are trying to hit our boys and the coalition forces. And so that … Continue reading
The Iran War
This is its genesis right here – text of an amendment to the defense authorization bill (note that paragraphs 3 and 4 were removed from the final version, and 5 remained): (1) that the manner in which the United States … Continue reading
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Support the Troops, Screw the Veterans
This war is becoming more difficult to support in a romantic sense as the bloody months continue to pile up. What interests me most about true believers today, is that besides the token blather points – “Anbar now has casual … Continue reading
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The Webb Amendment
Jim Webb is one hell of a leader, and this time around, Repubicans are going to have a tough time claiming to care about the troops if they filibuster. This bill would give the troops equal recovery time to how … Continue reading
Chuck Hagel on Petraeus/War Policy
I’ve been trying to rip Hagel’s speech and questions to Petraeus and Crocker at last week’s day 2 hearing from CSPAN’s website, but my computer is barely a step up from an abacus, so every time I try, only the … Continue reading
Walter Cronkite after the Tet Offensive, 1968
h/t to Blue Gal over at Crooks and Liars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdOb_183d1o
Army of Dude, Back Home
I know that some of you have bookmarked the ‘Army of Dude‘ blog, and I wanted to pass along that he’s done with the 15 months in Iraq. His father posted a comment saying he’s home safe and sound. If … Continue reading
The Rundown 9/12/07
General Petraeus has a boss, CENTCOM Commander Admiral William Fallon, and he told his subordinate in March that, “[Petraeus, you’re] an ass-kissing little chickenshit. I hate people like that.” ~~ Two suicide bombings that killed (at least) 50 people in … Continue reading
Petraeus the Magnificent – Day One Review
The books are cooked, and Petraeus is going to be looking bad once this week is through. He’ll attempt to babble through his inquisitor’s time in the next two days, but it will only get tougher tomorrow. I watched a … Continue reading
Petraeus the Magnificent
In the United States, as opposed to Pakistan or some banana republic south of Texas, the military is told what to do by civilians, and that dynamic alone, established well before wars in Korea and Iraq could have been imagined, … Continue reading
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An Inconvenient Truth
by Andrew Cockburn – published in The Nation magazine (excerpts): In September 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell descended on the town to inaugurate a newly completed museum commemorating the 5,000 victims, making emotional reference to the “choking mothers [who] … Continue reading
We listen to our generals, until we don’t
Seems like a lot of military types are not feeling the surge. The real test will be whether decision makers in the Bush administration listen to people with experience or continue to weaken the US military by pursuing the Iraq debacle (LATimes-8/24/07) WASHINGTON … Continue reading
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The War (Pithy Pre-September Position)
The security situation is improved on each piece of ground directly beneath our soldiers’ feet. Put these soldiers in vehicles, and the IED explosions argue against this theory. Our forces exit an area, and what happens then? The security situation … Continue reading
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Iraq Vets talk about killing civilians
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHvtIL_TRGE Marines Killing Unarmed Civilians http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnyjH5wusqs IED montage (Turn down the volume on your speakers) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X2qCPFMdFg
The War as We Saw It
Buddhika Jayamaha is an Army specialist. Wesley D. Smith is a sergeant. Jeremy Roebuck is a sergeant. Omar Mora is a sergeant. Edward Sandmeier is a sergeant. Yance T. Gray is a staff sergeant. Jeremy A. Murphy is a staff … Continue reading
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Birds of a Feather
Fatigue cripples US army in Iraq Memo shows [Utah] mine owners already knew they had roof problems in March Texas girl in [taxpayer funded] “boot camp” is tied to a van and dragged Cheney in ’94 on why it would be stupid … Continue reading
Maher Arar’s Murderers Are Exposed
“With persons likely to be tortured, there’s not even [been] a claim of a cost-benefit analysis. It’s not like you’re torturing to get the ticking bomb. It’s just that we would rather send this person back and have that person … Continue reading
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Is Bush Due for a Colin Blow?
karl writes in an email: “Maybe if Powell comes forward the democrats will get enough courage to end this debacle” Of all the former Bush administration officials whose advice was ignored — to disastrous effect — in the run-up to … Continue reading
Wabbit Feet
(UK asks U.S. to free residents from Guantanamo) Britain asked the United States to release five British residents from Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday in what analysts saw as a sign that new Prime Minister Gordon Brown is taking a more … Continue reading
Patriots Who Love the Troops to Death
(FRANK RICH) …As is becoming clearer than ever in this Korffian endgame, hiding behind the troops is the last refuge of this war’s sponsors. This too is a rewrite of history. It has been the war’s champions who have more … Continue reading
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Ready To Trust General Patraeus?
UPDATE: State Dep’t Ends Baghdad Electricity Updates President Bush 6/15/2006: “I do think we’ll be able to measure progress. You can measure progress in capacity of Iraqi units, you can measure progress in megawatts of electricity delivered, you can measure … Continue reading
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Good Eats
TPMmuckraker features some top-notch analysis concerning Gonzo and the NSA wiretapping program(s?): “There’s a lot of evidence to suggest that Gonzales’s careful, repeated phrasing to the Senate that he will only discuss the program that “the president described” was deliberate, … Continue reading
Construction of US Embassy in Iraq
Two foremen on the project tell a House committee about how the USA goes about building something like this under Bush/Cheney. Rory Mayberry, a former subcontractor employee for First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting Company, gives opening testimony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evRPwwyno_cJohn Owens, a … Continue reading
Blackwater = Border Patrol?
7/25/2007: “Guard’s Border Mission to be Halved” — The number of National Guard troops along the Arizona-Mexico border will be trimmed in half by the end of next month. As the presidentially mandated Operation Jumpstart mission begins its second year … Continue reading
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Life During Wartime
Justice at Stake: Ensuring That Prisoners in the U.S. Are Never ‘Disappeared’- by Shahid Buttar, posted at The Peace Tree Hadrian’s Forum: “The American founding fathers were well versed in Roman history. People such as Washington, Madison and Jefferson, were … Continue reading
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Chickenhawks, Scapegoats, Don Young’s Teeth
Max Blumenthal – College GOP Convention http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4863292439576938605&hl=en Keith Olbermann – Special Comment “Scapegoat” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3940485884021764668&hl=en
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The Blame Game – ‘Oil or Bust’ Edition
Saudi Arabia is responsible for the majority of foreign fighters in Iraq1, and in terms of funding2, has for decades been facilitating the flow of funds from collection plates to madrassahs in places like Pakistan, and also to finance jihad3 … Continue reading
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Jim Webb vs. Lindsey Graham
Webb is probably the first senator I’ve seen on one of these weekend shows throw down on behalf of the troops. He is pointing out how ridiculous Graham, McCain and others sound when they say, “I’ve spoken to the troops, … Continue reading