Aaron Glantz has set up warcomeshome.org in a project with KPFA.org and they will have live video and audio of all three days of the IVAW:Winter Soldier gathering. The three day live broadcast will be co-hosted by Aaron Glantz and former Army medic and KPFA Morning Show host Aimee Allison
WSJ Neocon in No Holds Barred Death Match With Reality, Sanity, Responsibility
It's pretty funny. Thanks to Christopher Manion.
Less Jobs, More Wars…
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Iraq Forever
Times: At last summer’s debate on Iraq, Cheney urged the president to resist the Democrats’ call for troop withdrawals and to prolong the surge indefinitely. But the Joint Chiefs argued that they didn’t have the troops to sustain the surge beyond the summer of 2008. Gates made a more political point: that if there were no prospects for gradual but substantial troop withdrawals, popular support for the war would evaporate, and the next president would probably pull out all the troops as quickly...
Michael Barone Declares Victory in Iraq
Here. Great. We've won the war. It must be time to leave then, right? Let's bring the troops home.
That was awesome!
“Well I think the Iraqi people are much better off now” -You
Yeah, well you were wrong again.
U.S. tightening the screws on Iran…
Iraqi fighters ’grilled for evidence on Iran’ Interrogator says US military seeks evidence incriminating Tehran David Smith in Baghdad Sunday November 11, 2007 The Observer US military officials are putting huge pressure on interrogators who question Iraqi insurgents to find incriminating evidence pointing to Iran, it was claimed last night. Micah Brose, a privately contracted interrogator working for American forces in Iraq, near the Iranian border, told The Observer that information on Iran...
A glimmer of hope against tyranny…
Federal judge bars Army retrial of officer who refused Iraq War By Jeff Paterson, Courage to Resist. November 11, 2007 Civilian federal Judge Benjamin Settle blocked the Army’s plans for a second court-martial of prominent Iraq War military resister First Lieutenant Ehren Watada. Judge Settle’s preliminary ruling last Thursday found that a retrial would violate Lt. Watada’s Fifth Amendment protections against being tried for the same crime twice—known as double jeopardy. read on:...
Senate passes intelligence bill after Democrats back down on presidential briefings, CIA jails
Larisa Alexandrovna/Raw Story After a stalemate of over two years, the Senate passed the 2008 Intelligence Authorization bill Wednesday, with Democrats ceding a key provision regarding pre-war Iraq intelligence that Republicans had decried.Sources close to the Senate Intelligence Committee say one of the compromises Democrats made to ensure the bill’s passage was to remove language demanding the White House turn over all Presidential Daily Briefings on Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion YAY. <...
The GWOT Effect of Arms for Dictators
Rachel Stohl at FPIF: During the first five years after Sept. 11, 2001 the United States sold nearly five times more weapons (through Foreign Military Sales and Direct Commercial Sales ) to these 25 countries than during the five years before 9-11. Sales increased from $1,771,753,000 to $8,741,686,000. Total Direct Commercial Sales (DCS are sales directly between U.S. companies and recipients, including foreign governments) for the 25 countries since Sept. 11, 2001 have reached new highs,...
