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miamiherald.com - 3 days ago
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The Pentagon's top detainee affairs policy appointee has
quit the Defense Department just seven months into the...
job, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. Phillip Carter, a former Army captain and Iraq War veteran, had been an outspoken critic of ...
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Detainee policy appointee quits Pentagon post
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telegraph.co.uk - 5 days ago
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The "appalling" errors that contributed to Britain's failure
in Iraq are disclosed in a detailed and damning...
set of leaks.
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Iraq report: Secret papers reveal blunders and concealment
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A Quote To Remember
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Friday: 1 US Soldier
5 hours ago at Antiwar.com Original
Mission accomplishable (II)
6 hours ago at Mudville Gazette
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guardian.co.uk - 5 days ago
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• Inquiry to hear how Blair hid true
intentions for war • Military 'ill-prepared' for aftermath of...
invasion Military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens on Tuesday, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that ...
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Papers reveal No 10 cover-up over Iraq
motherjones.com - 3 days ago
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motherjones.com —
Matt Yglesias writes about the routine use of
the filibuster and other delaying tactics in Congress: It...
s worth emphasizing how one-sided efficacious minority party obstruction has been. The Bush administration wasn t able to get its agenda through ...
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The New Obstruction
themoderatevoice.com - 5 days ago
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themoderatevoice.com —
You’ll remember that the other day I pointed
to a Poytner finding that The Daily Show is...
serious about its media criticism. It looks like Jon Stewart has some real competition. The LATImes finds NBC News anchor Brian Williams — fresh off a 30 Rock cameo and Wait, Wait… ...
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NBC’s Brian Williams: Serious. And Funny.
liberalvaluesblog.com - 3 days ago
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liberalvaluesblog.com —
George Bush took advantage of the 9/11 attack
to invade Iraq even though there was no connection....
There has already been considerable evidence that Bush and other neoconservatives had wanted to invade Iraq long before the 9/11 attack and ceased upon this as an excuse. The Times of London ...
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Bush Discussed Invasion of Iraq With British Officials ...
guardian.co.uk - 37 hours ago
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• Sir Christopher Meyer says plans to invade
Iraq did not give time for weapons inspectors •...
Meyer: 'not clear if Blair signed in blood' for invasion at George Bush's Texas ranch The military timetable for an invasion of Iraq in 2003 did not give ...
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War build-up 'left us scrabbling for smoking gun', says ...
mudvillegazette.com - 2 days ago
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WaPo : Phillip Carter, who was appointed deputy
assistant secretary of defense for detainee policy in April,...
said in a brief telephone interview that he was leaving for "personal and family reasons" and not because of any policy differences with the administration. He tendered his resignation ...
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Moving on
mudvillegazette.com - 30 hours ago
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A tip of the hat to all the
folks who worked hard to prepare a Thanksgiving feast...
today - for many fine chefs it's truly their finest hour . And here, just for fun, a behind the scenes video of some unsung heroes preparing Thanksgiving dinner for a few thousand hungry troops at a US military ...
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Somewhere in a DFAC in Iraq...
mudvillegazette.com - 30 hours ago
mudvillegazette.com - 23 hours ago
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mudvillegazette.com —
Thanksgiving dinner video from the dining facilities (DFACs)
on Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
2009. Soundtrack is my addition, and should be familiar to one and all. I'm thankful to have been there, done that, and be home for this one. And I'm thankful that the ...
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Thanksgiving during war - Iraq and Afghanistan, 2009
mudvillegazette.com - 6 hours ago
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( Part one here ) Four years ago
this weekend, President Bush unveiled his U.S. National Strategy...
for Victory in Iraq in a speech at the US Naval Academy. Now President Obama will be doing the same for Afghanistan - but his speech will be given at West Point. They're different , you see. ...
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Mission accomplishable (II)
huffingtonpost.com - 5 days ago
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Sarah Palin picked celebrity interviewers and right-wing pundits
for her book promotion tour, probably to avoid embarrassments...
like last year's Katie Couric interview . But even a friendly interview can be treacherous. In a sit-down with Fox News' ...
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Palin Confuses Iraq And Iran In Hannity Interview (VIDEO)
abcnews.go.com - 5 days ago
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Hot off his historic inauguration, President Barack Obama
quickly turned his focus to drawing down troops in...
Iraq. The president met with Wednesday afternoon with close advisers on his first day in office to consider complex questions surrounding ...
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Obama and Advisers Talk Iraq Drawdown
query.nytimes.com - 5 days ago
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Even as the Pentagon is mulling plans to
begin reducing the number of American combat troops in...
Iraq and Afghanistan next spring, the military has more than $1.2 billion in construction under way or on the drawing board to upgrade 16 air bases ...
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Pentagon Construction Boom Beefs Up Mideast Air Bases
sfgate.com - 5 days ago
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"We'll be in the region for the foreseeable
future," said U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Allen G....
Peck, deputy air commander of U.S. Central Command, which oversees the region. "Our intention would be to stay as long as the host nations will have us." ...
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U.S. May Shift to Persian Gulf Air Bases
nytimes.com - 5 days ago
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 27 ? The United States
is shifting its major air operations center for the...
Middle East from Saudi Arabia to Qatar, the first step in what is likely to be a significant reduction of American forces in Saudi Arabia and a realignment ...
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U.S. to Move Air Base to Qatar
independent.co.uk - 5 days ago
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independent.co.uk —
America's armed forces are planning to send 600
of their personnel to Qatar to test a headquarters...
that could be used to control and co-ordinate an invasion of Iraq. America's armed forces are planning to send 600 of their personnel to Qatar to test ...
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The Independent
telegraph.co.uk - 5 days ago
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telegraph.co.uk —
The Kuwaiti ministry of interior said it had
arrested six men it suspected of being members of...
an al-Qaeda cell in the country. It said they had given "detailed confessions" to planning a series of attacks on strategic sites in the country, among ...
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Kuwait thwarts plot to attack US army base
ali.afcent.af.mil - 5 days ago
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The 407th Air Expeditionary Group, located at Ali
Base, Iraq, was activated April 17, 2003. The 407th...
AEG provides coalition tactical airlift support with aerial port operations. Ali Base is home to the 407th Air Expeditionary Group and the U.S. Air ...
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407TH AIR EXPEDITIONARY GROUP
