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Nailing the Iraq Lie
8 hours ago ago from Sabbah Report
By Aijaz Zaka Syed* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz How right Edward Gibbon was when he said history is little more than the register of crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. But perhaps no register is enough to chronicle the crimes double-speaking and double-dealing politicians routinely commit against humanity. Look at Tony Blair. You would think two years out of power would have narrowed down the gap between the former ...
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20 hours ago ago from Northern Voices Online, North India News
Nowhere it is more obvious than in Iraq that the existence of an election law, elections themselves and the constitution they are based on are not indicators of democracy or legitimacy, because these mechanisms are merely symbols of the antithesis of the mechanisms of democracy as practiced back home by the U.S. occupying power. An editorial of The Washington Post on December 8 hailed the passing two days earlier of an amended version of ...
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12 hours ago ago from The Canadian National Newspaper Exopolitics Headlines
by Edward C. Corrigan, Independent Editorialist Former U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney still influences the foregin policy direction of the current U.S. President Barack Obama administration. Obama and Cheney share a connection with the U.S. political-military-industrial complex. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in his government’s Throne Speech had announced that he ...
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17 hours ago ago from Christian Data Resources
Is it time to withdraw from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Let's step back for a moment and consider the current status of both wars: Cost The cost of lives for the U.S. is about 6,000: 5,200 from our military, plus 800 civilian contractors and journalists. The deaths for Iraqi soldiers and other Coalition forces total 10,500. Estimates for the number of Iraqi civilians killed range as high as 600,000. In addition, the ...
Related contentIraq to relaunch air force nearly 20 years after Kuwait war
22 hours ago ago from News Essentials
Iraq to relaunch air force nearly 20 years after Kuwait war AFP 17 December 2009, 02:11am IST TIKRIT: Iraq is to relaunch its air force which was decimated in the 1991 Gulf War and to train pilots for a squadron of 18-24 fighter planes, Defence Minister Abdel Qadr Obeidi announced on Wednesday. Obeidi said at the reopening of the air force academy in Tikrit, in northern Iraq, that the facility would produce a new generation of ...
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Jo Comerford: Surging by the Minute
2 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Cross-posted with Tomdispatch.com $57,077.60. That s what we re paying per minute. Keep that in mind -- just for a minute or so. After all, the surge is already on. By the end of December, the first 1,500 U.S. troops will have landed in Afghanistan, a nation roughly the size of Texas, ranked by the United Nations as second worst in the world in terms of human development. Women and men from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, will be among ...
Related contentAP-GfK Poll: Gains for Obama, not his Afghan plans
22 hours ago ago from U.S. News
AP-GfK Poll: Gains for Obama, not his Afghan plans WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans like seeing President Barack Obama finally tackle Afghanistan - even if most don't support his plans. The latest Associated Press-GfK poll shows the president's marks for handling the eight-year-old war have jumped by double digits - more than half now approve - since he capped a three-month strategy review by announcing a big troop increase. He said he would ...
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