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Friendly fire: Lying to the mother of a dead soldier
(www.salon.com)
On Dec. 4, 2006, U.S. Army Pfc. Albert Nelson was killed in Ramadi, Iraq, in an apparent friendly-fire incident. As first described in Salon, interviews with soldiers and a graphic battle video seem... More
Submitted about 18 hours ago by cdoherty on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
Winning the War?
(www.prospect.org)
It's become common for neoconservative pundits to declare that we've "won the war," as Bill Kristol did the other day in a debate over Bush's eventual legacy. And of course we haven't "won the war."... More
Submitted about 18 hours ago by cdoherty on Iraq | 0 Comments |
Divorces rise among military couples (www.usatoday.com)
Enlisted soldiers and Marines divorced their spouses at a higher rate in fiscal 2008 than at any other time in at least 16 years, according to Pentagon data released Tuesday. About 4% of married... More
Submitted 1 day ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
Military Contractor in Iraq Holds Foreign Workers in Warehouses (www.mcclatchydc.com)
About 1,000 Asian men who were hired by a Kuwaiti subcontractor to the U.S. military have been confined for as long as three months in windowless warehouses near the Baghdad airport without money or a... More
Submitted 1 day ago by rmwarnick on Iraq | 0 Comments |
SecDef Gates Looking At How to Accelerate Iraq Withdrawal (www.huffingtonpost.com)
"Commanders are already looking at ...accelerating the drawdown and in terms of how we meet our obligations to the Iraqis," Gates said. "Nobody wants to put at risk the gains that have been... More
Submitted 1 day ago by rmwarnick on Iraq | 0 Comments |
Iraqi Army Developing Four Armored, Five Mech Infantry Divisions and Buying US-Made Tanks (www.longwarjournal.org)
The Iraqi Government has been ordering substantial numbers of weapons this year. These orders, combined with known training plans, and existing force structure, provide insight into the eventual... More
Submitted 1 day ago by rmwarnick on Iraq | 0 Comments |
Bombs Kill 21 Iraqis, Including Children (www.nytimes.com)
Bombings took the lives of at least 21 Iraqis on Tuesday, including 3 children and 6 adults when an explosive on a horse-drawn cart went off in an attack on a primary school in Mosul.
Submitted 1 day ago by rmwarnick on Iraq | 0 Comments |
Bombings Kill At Least 15 Across Iraq (www.washingtonpost.com)
A series of bombings in northern and southern Iraq on Tuesday killed at least 15 Iraqis and injured dozens.
Submitted 1 day ago by rmwarnick on Iraq | 0 Comments |
Brandon Friedman: Conservative Denial Over Obama's Iraq Plan (www.vetvoice.com)
I know the election of Barack Obama is painful for many Bush supporters, but this grip of denial now tightening itself around some conservatives is, well. . .really weird.
Submitted 1 day ago by rmwarnick on Iraq | 0 Comments |
Matthew Yglesias: 'Winning' The War (yglesias.thinkprogress.org)
"[I]t’s worth observing that absolutely integral to starting to achieve success in Iraq was the rolling strategic decision to abandon our main war aims." Conservatives called that “losing” when... More
Submitted 1 day ago by rmwarnick on Iraq | 0 Comments |
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