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Pentagon Shift Gives Names of Detainees to Red Cross »
Posted by: Beau7890 3 months ago in News
In a reversal of Pentagon policy, the military for the first time is notifying the International Committee of the Red Cross of the identities of ...
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Declassified DoD Documents Suggest Detainees Were Tortured to Death »
Posted by: berkeley 9 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Newly declassified Defense Department documents describe a pattern of “abusive” behavior by U.S. military interrogators that appears to have caused the deaths of several ...
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran accepts US Afghan invitation »
Posted by: dissent 8 months ago in News
Iran has agreed to attend a US-backed international conference on Afghanistan next week, but Washington played down the prospect of a high-profile meeting.
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White House Struggles to Gauge Success in Afghanistan »
Posted by: arijit57 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
WASHINGTON — As the American military comes to full strength in the Afghan buildup, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with a long-promised plan ...
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Obama's LBJ Moment »
Posted by: Tumultuous 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Lyndon Johnson was once on the verge of becoming one of America's greatest presidents.
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Torture by any other description »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months ago in Political News
Few have put it more clearly than Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who is also an Air Force colonel and senior instructor at the Air ...
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Afghanistan by the Numbers »
Posted by: berkeley 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Here may be the single strangest fact of our American world: that at least three administrations -- Ronald Reagan's, George W. Bush's, and now ...
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Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to War »
Posted by: BronxBomber 1 week ago in News
Ventura, California - US Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to ...
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What Cheney Forfeited »
Posted by: tehranchik 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
There isn't a tyrant anywhere who isn't more legitimate today because of Dick Cheney's adoption of torture as an American value.
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Too Close For Comfort - Marines Call In Air Strike »
Posted by: pc25 6 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Dangerously close airstrike in support of US Marines in Now Zad, Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
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Iraq vet: We're losing 'more soldiers to suicide than to al Qaeda' »
Posted by: tehranchik 9 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The Army's suicide rate is the highest it has been in three decades, and a week-long series of articles at Salon.com has been ...
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Fiasco - Why is Obama repeating Bush's Iraq mistakes...in Afghanistan? »
Posted by: Tumultuous 2 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
With the Iraq war spinning out of control in mid-2005, retired Marine General James L. Jones spoke with his old friend Peter Pace, the incoming ...
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Taliban Attack Afghan Government Buildings, Killing At Least 20, Before Holbrooke Visit »
Posted by: tehranchik 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Eight Taliban gunmen wearing suicide vests attacked three Afghan government buildings Wednesday in a coordinated assault that killed 20 people in the heart of Kabul ...
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US to spend $1 billion on embassy expansions in Pakistan, Afghanistan »
Posted by: dissent 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Islamabad - The US is embarking on a $1 billion crash program to expand its diplomatic presence in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan, another sign that the ...
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Bombshell: Orders revoked for soldier challenging prez »
Posted by: Temlakos 4 months, 1 week ago in News
A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after he ...
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