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NATO considers beefing up Afghan war support »
Posted by: orndorffter 3 weeks, 3 days ago in News
Top NATO and United Nations officials signaled Friday they may request more international troops to join American forces in Afghanistan as the top U.S ...
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The CIA Terror Memos - Legal Opinions Redefine Torture, Criminal Acts »
Posted by: epiphannyy 6 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The Bush administration’s 2001 declaration of “war on terror” critically—if not irreparably—injured the constitutional soul of America. This nation can no longer ...
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ABC Video - Obama on Israael's Right To Self Defense »
Posted by: pc25 10 months, 3 weeks ago in News
From a July 2008 speech in Sderot, Israel
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U.S. to scale back missile defense plan »
Posted by: myfairlady 2 months ago in Political News
The Obama administration is expected to announce Thursday that it will shelve many of the components of a European missile defense plan that has been ...
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Pentagon: $400 a gallon for gas for troops - UPI.com »
Posted by: Tumultuous 1 month ago in Political News
The U.S. Defense Department told a congressional committee paying $400 for a gallon of gas is one reason the cost of the war in ...
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Call on FOX to fire O'Reilly, Peters for aiding America's enemies »
Posted by: Aidenag 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
According to NBC’s top Pentagon correspondent, the Department of Defense is furious with Fox News analyst Ralph Peters, who said on July 19 that ...
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Neff: Down with DOMA | Gay News Blog | 365gay.com »
Posted by: david_nwpa 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
One of the community’s staunchest advocates in Congress, U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, is sponsoring legislation to repeal the 1996 Defense of ...
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Defense Tech: ABL Dings Missile With Low-Power Beam »
Posted by: gbudavid 3 months ago in Science & Technology
We just got word that Boeing's Airborne Laser Team conducted its first successful test in flight August 10 of a ballistic missile intercept using ...
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Vietnam: Land mines still line 16 million acres »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
HANOI, Vietnam - More than one-third of the land in six central Vietnamese provinces remains contaminated with land mines and unexploded bombs from the Vietnam War ...
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Iran President Urges Full Defense For Reporter »
Posted by: FunnyBoyz 7 months ago in News
(AP / TEHRAN,Iran) Iran's official news agency says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged the prosecution to ensure an American journalist convicted of spying for ...
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Documents Suggest DOD Failed to Probe Alleged War Crimes »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Jawad, who was about 12 years old when he was captured and accused of throwing a hand grenade at U.S. soldiers, endured “cruel and ...
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Hold KBR/Halliburton War Profiteers Accountable »
Posted by: rightfromwrong 5 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
The Department of Defense just gave $80 million in bonuses to KBR, a former subsidiary of Halliburton, for electrical wiring contracts in Iraq. But in ...
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Russian Bombers Could Be Deployed to Cuba »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 1 year, 3 months ago in News
Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons could be deployed to Cuba in response to U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in ...
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Czech Republic cancels missile defense vote »
Posted by: NathanG1487 8 months ago in News
The Czech prime minister canceled a vote to allow the United States to put a key part of its planned missile defense system in the ...
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House Passes FOIA Amendment to Hide Abuse Photos »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 month ago in Political News
Notwithstanding Rep. Louise Slaughter’s (D-N.Y.) impassioned plea, the House this afternoon passed that amendment to alter the Freedom of Information Act and hide ...
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