7 days ago by an average patriot

Obama Asks for New Afghan Options We all know this but we keep hearing there is no military solution in Afghanistan any victory will require a Political solution. I do not like General McChrystal’s clandestine military past but I do respect him. However we do not need a warrior solution right now. W ...

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12 days ago by Paul Evans

Evans Politics, November 9, 2009 Iraq Passes Crucial Election Law Iraq Passes Crucial Election Law, © The New York Times, November 8, 2009, by Timothy Williams and Sa’ad Izzi, excerpt quoted verbatim: “BAGHDAD — After weeks of political stalemate, Iraq approved a law on Sunday to administer a critic ...

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15 days ago by paulthornton

by PAUL THORNTON A split in the Government’s Intelligence and Security Committee has emerged– days after its chairman called for troops to be pulled from Afghanistan. Labour MP for Pontypridd Dr Kim Howells said in an article for The Guardian newspaper earlier this week that “the vast majority” of B ...

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23 days ago by Golden Arple

A few weeks ago, on October 7th, we marked the eighth anniversary of our engagement in Iraq. I wonder how many people celebrated? Along the way we marked over 1,000 deaths of coalition forces, countless Taliban fighters, and the ultimate victims: Afghani civilians. It is a war which the public of Un ...

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44 days ago by Tom Remington

With reports leaking out this afternoon, it now appears Obama is not interested in fighting the Taliban. He says that the Taliban and Al-Qaida are two separate entities and that we will no longer fight the Taliban. He is also suggesting that the Taliban be given some amount of rule in the Afghanista ...

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46 days ago by jamesb101

Remember all the noise about the troops leaving Iraq by 2011?…..I mentioned that I though it was all for show….And that the United States, and it’s allies, would gradually bring the numbers down to about 40,000 to 50,000 troops, or ‘advisers’. Those advisors, I predicted, would be there for a long, ...

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52 days ago by Jake

Oh come on. If we really ever took all of our military out of Iraq, does anyone think Iraqis would voluntarily be our partners on anything in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world? They've been shocked, awed, occupied, and kicked in their sovereign nuts for six years. They have lots of exper ...

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56 days ago by Mark

Bin Laden Demands Europe Withdraw Afghanistan TroopsREUTERS: DUBAI - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden demanded that European nations withdraw their troops from Afghanistan in a new audio tape aired on Friday, saying they were sacrificing men and money in an unjust U.S.-led war."We are not demanding a ...

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71 days ago by 25outof25centralasia

Today, we received an email from Tom Hayden and CODEPINK asking for our signature and to spread the word on their efforts to End the War in Afghanistan. We are sending that out now to all of our readers. Please join their efforts and forward our web address to your friends so they can sign also. IT ...

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74 days ago by Jake

If you thought our withdrawal from Iraq would end our expenses on military folks in Iraq, you are wrong. Oh, we will pull our full time U.S. Military troops out. We will keep paying them wherever we send them. However, in Iraq, we seem to have stuff that still needs to be guarded. The Army guys did ...

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