From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld . . .
In Sometimes-Brusque ‘Snowflakes,’ He Shared Worldview, Shaped Policy
By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 1, 2007; A01
In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid “physical labor” and wrote of the need to “keep elevating the […]
DADDY’S $10M ‘BAD’ MITZVAH
By SELIM ALGAR and ANDY GELLER
New York Post
October 26, 2007 — The former CEO of the leading supplier of body armor to U.S. soldiers in Iraq was charged yesterday with looting the company to bankroll a lavish lifestyle that included a $10 million bat mitzvah for his daughter.
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New York Post
In addition to […]
My pal Mark emailed some photos of the Tucson Bone Yard of retired military aircraft in the Arizona desert. Most of us have seen these incredible bird’s-eye view photos of the resting planes.
For example…
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But, no one ever talks about or photographs the airplanes at night.
I have and found this incredible event.
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Mullen Gets Blunt Questions About Iraq
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press Writer
FORT SILL, Okla. Army captains who represent the military’s future pelted the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with blunt questions Tuesday about the strain of long war deployments.
The officers, who are students in […]
Ex-Commander Says Iraq Effort Is ‘a Nightmare’
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Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
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Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, then the top American commander in Iraq, in Baghdad in 2004.
By DAVID S. CLOUD
Published: October 13, 2007
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top commander of American forces there called […]
George W. Bush’s killer elite
October 3, 2007 - 10:16am.
Blackwater USA is jsut another gang of killers for hire
By DOUG THOMPSON
Capitol Hill Blue
Erik Prince looks like the all-American boy but don’t let the good looks fool you.
The trim, articulate 38-year-old served in the Navy SEALs, an elite commando unit. Ten years ago, Prince decided the particular […]
As a carnival barker at a Guess-Your-Weight stand…
Carnival Rube Hey honey, let’s see how good this guy is. What’d I win?
Navin Uh, anything in this general area right in here. Anything below the stereo and on this side of the bicentennial glasses. Anything between the ashtrays and the thimble. Anything in this three […]
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Fallon: ‘Constant drumbeat’ of Iran war talk ‘not helpful.’
In an interview with al Jazeera television, CentCom Commander Admiral William Fallon warned that constant talk of bombing Iran is not hepful. “This constant drumbeat of conflict is what strikes me which is not helpful and not useful,” he said. “I expect that there will be no […]
BLOWED IT UP REAL GOOD!!
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Russia tests superstrength ‘vacuum’ bomb
September 12, 2007 - 7:19AM
Russia has tested the world’s most powerful vacuum bomb, which unleashes a destructive shock wave with the power of a nuclear blast, dubbing it the “father of all bombs”.
The bomb is the latest in a series of new Russian weapons and policy […]
CentCom Chief Fallon: Petraeus Is ‘An Ass-Kissing, Little Chickensh*t,’ ‘I Hate People Like That’
During the Iraq war, the Central Command (CENTCOM) head — who leads U.S. operations in the entire Middle East region — and the Multinational Force Commander (MNF) have regularly testified together about the course of the war in Iraq.
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In January, President Bush […]