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Well, the Global War on Terror is not going well, evidently and that shadowy band of high tech Ameriphobic cave dwellers are reaching Fosset and Ludlumesque powers of connivance and worldwide disruption. From Asia Times
…more than five years after Bush’s speech, the administration seems determined to maintain a military “surge”, having added 20,000 soldiers. […]

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From TPM

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From TPM

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Only in America can making a gargantuan mistake be used to justify another gargantuan mistake.
WASHINGTON — President Bush says he has no doubts about launching the unpopular war in Iraq despite the “high cost in lives and treasure,” arguing that retreat now would embolden Iran and provide al-Qaida with money for weapons of mass destruction […]

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The only surprise here is that this study originates at the Pentagon. Apparently, they are no longer making any pretense that Iraq was harboring al Qaeda terrorists. Unfortunately, Congress will not make a move to bring our troops home out of harm’s way.
An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were […]

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Dabbling in foreign affairs without adequate understanding of local cultures is a dangerous thing. It is proving very dangerous for our troops as detailed in this article by Gareth Porter at Asia Times. Funded by US money and supplied with weapons by the US military has further endangered our troops.
…mainstream Sunni insurgents who […]

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Time constraints the next couple of days keep me from really breaking these two articles down but please give them a read. The Rolling Stone does another fantastic job of ferreting out the detials in this six page tome about the surge by Nir Rosen. Chris Hedges does another take at TruthDig

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Marketing terror or pizzas or iPods, it is all the same

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An under assessed consequence of the mass exodus from Iraq by those hoping to escape the violence, lack of water, electricity and unemployment is the loss of the technical and professional members of the former Iraq society. The very people that might be able to kluge together some sort of government, repair the infrastructure, […]

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Nothing in my life has been more frustrating than being led by incompetent leaders. This first part of a two part article from Asia Times illustrates just how maddening it is for the military to be bound to the will of an incompetent leader and how criminal it is that our fighting men and […]

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Newspapers across America pan Bush’s claims in last nights news conference here, here and here as bunk.
Meanwhile Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha whose personal vendetta against al Qaeda allowed Bush to spin the Anbar myth that the surge is successful was killed yesterday
Risha - along with his two bodyguards - was killed by […]

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