Archive for the 'War' Category
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
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ABCNews
Grim’ Afghanistan Report To Be Kept Secret by US
“No Plans to Declassify” New National Intelligence Estimate for White House
By BRIAN ROSS
September 23, 2008
US intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the situation as “grim”, but there are “no plans to declassify” any of […]
Posted in Military, Afghanistan, Bush, Cheney, Movies, War |
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Could it be that W’s perennial best-seller translates poorly into Urdu?
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Pakistani troops fire on intruding U.S. choppers
By Augustine Anthony Mon Sep 22, 5:07 AM ET
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani troops fired on two U.S. helicopters that intruded into Pakistani airspace on Sunday night, forcing them to turn back to Afghanistan, a senior Pakistani security official said […]
Posted in Bush, Books, Al-Qaeda, Pakistan, War |
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
August 30, 2008
New York Times
Bush Seeks to Affirm a Continuing War on Terror
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON — Tucked deep into a recent proposal from the Bush administration is a provision that has received almost no public attention, yet in many ways captures one of President Bush’s defining legacies: an affirmation that the United States is still […]
Posted in Bush, Terrorism, Al-Qaeda, War, Taliban |
Monday, August 25th, 2008
One would have thought they had other,
more pressing problems
than re-stocking their aquarium.
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Image: (Main) shanghaidaily.com;(Sign) weblo.com; (water) georgia aquarium via countryinns.com; (men moving ray) balancestrap.com; (manta ray) via dailymail.co.uk;
Posted in Nature, Russia, War, Georgia |
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
The man who would be president continues to astound listeners
with his hare-brained statements.
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Image: (The Kiss) thewashingtonnote.com via journals.democraticunderground.com; (poster) classicfilm.about.com via z.about.com
Posted in John S. McCain III, Movies, Russia, War, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Georgia |
Monday, August 11th, 2008
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Image: (Dick) dailykos.com via img.photobucket.com; (White House) visitingdc.com; (hat) 1st-for-halloween-costumes.com via buycostumes.com;
Reuters story.
Posted in Cheney, Russia, War, Ukraine, Canada, Chickenhawks |
Monday, August 11th, 2008
I think this may be the second column I have scanned Kristol’s column (I can’t bear to read every word). It’s really the height of chutzpah, to push Russia on areas clearly within their geographical bailiwick (and clearly, from a military point of view, way out of ours) and to screw around with things like […]
Posted in Russia, Condoleezza Rice, War, Ukraine, William Kristol |
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
By MIKE ALLEN
Politico
8/5/08 11:51 AM EST Updated: 8/5/08 11:51 AM EST
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A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein.
Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that the alleged […]
Posted in Bush, Iraq, CIA, Cheney, Books, War |
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Huffington Post
Frank Schaeffer
The Cult of The Warrior –
Jack Kemp Was Right: McCain Would Be Too Dangerous as President
Posted May 18, 2008 | 10:01 PM (EST)
In 2000 Jack Kemp (former congressman and Bob Dole’s vice presidential candidate) told me, “McCain is a war maker, and I’m a peacemaker, so is George Bush. McCain would be too […]
Posted in John S. McCain III, Movies, War, Violence, 2008 Presidential Campaign |
Monday, May 12th, 2008
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Images: (real cover of Popular Science) blog.modernmechanix.com; (parlor) moviemail-online.co.uk
Posted in Fashion, Magazine, Science, War, Weapons |
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
(AFP/Essam al-Sudani)
1,300 Iraqi troops, police dismissed
By BUSHRA JUHI, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 9 minutes ago
The Iraqi government has dismissed about 1,300 soldiers and policemen who deserted or refused to fight during last month’s offensive against Shiite militias and criminal gangs in Basra, officials said Sunday.
Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf said 921 police and […]
Posted in Iraq, War |
