4 hours ago by dekerivers

Smile. Detainees at a camp in Baghdad in Iraq have found a way to get under the skin of National Guard troops from Wisconsin. And it has to do with football and a painful chapter for some Green Bay Packers fans who consider Brett Favre a traitor for joining the rival Minnesota Vikings. First Lt. Tim ...

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12 hours ago by joejolly

Tracy Barker Says State Department Employee Assaulted Her in Iraq – Feds Refused to File Charges abc news By DREW SANDHOLM Nov. 20, 2009 Tracy Barker, who says a U.S. State Department employee sexually assaulted her in Iraq in 2005 has won $2.93 million in arbitration from KBR, the military contract ...

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14 hours ago by ellroon

Bill Moyers shows the spooky parallels between Johnson struggling with Vietnam and Obama wrestling with Iraq and Afghanistan. You will even hear the same phrases being used. We haven't learned a damned thing.

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15 hours ago by Fred Stopsky

From all accounts the events that happened in Nisoor Square in Baghdad in 2007 when guards working for the Blackwater corporation opened fire on Iraqis and killed 17 it was evident there was no ambush and the guards over-reacted. Initial investigation of the events led the State Department to cancel ...

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15 hours ago by Fred Stopsky

The Danish government is instituting tighter checks on individuals carrying American passports who enter their nation, particularly, anyone who is coming from the Middle East. US intelligence has indicated many terrorists are securing an American passport as a way to more readily enter a European na ...

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1 day ago by Jacob

It was over a month ago that I first wrote about Obama and his decision about troop levels in Afghanistan. Over a month. October 7 to be exact. Now it’s November 20, Thanksgiving is less than a week away. And we are still waiting on a decision from Obama regarding troops levels in Afghanistan. This ...

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1 day ago by marthagillis

Some may flinch from reading books that depict war honestly. Please don't. How can we, as citizens, let our military make sacrifices that we refuse to even read about? How can we know a cause is worth the price of war if we do not accurately know that price?

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1 day ago by Dorothy Thompson

Join Michael Anthony, author of the Iraq war memoir, Mass Casualties : A Young Medic’s True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq , (Adams Media), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in December and January on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! About the Autho ...

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1 day ago by janeq

Foundational principal of American criminal justice system: presumption of innocence. Obama announces to the world that KSN will be convicted. Oops! Come again? Ho quickly do you think the defense team will move for a mistrial on the grounds that the jury was prejudiced by the pronouncement of guilt ...

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1 day ago by Justin Elliott

A good government group is calling on the State Department to investigate the role of former ambassador Peter Galbraith in drafting Iraq's constitution in 2005 while he held a lucrative stake in a Kurdish oil field. The letter from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington to the State De ...

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