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Rep. Eric Massa VIDEO: War In Afghanistan Must End

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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2,950. That's the number that echoes throughout Rep. Eric Massa's (D-N.Y.) five minute speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, as he fer...

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U.S.-Colombia Military Deal Angers Activists

BBC | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

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Colombian opposition groups have reacted angrily after details of a controversial military deal with the US were made public....

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Last Plan for Afghanistan

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

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Plan Z is one of those rare strategies that is hatched not from the mind of confused strategic thinkers by from the womb of Americana. What is Plan Z? Buy the bad guys.

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Catch-22 in Afghanistan

William Astore | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

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As we send more troops to stiffen Afghani government forces and to stabilize the state, that high-profile presence will serve to demoralize Afghani troops and ultimately to destabilize the state.

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Obama Seeking Options To Send Fewer Troops To Afghanistan

washingtonpost.com | Anne E. Kornblut and Greg Jaffe | Posted 10.31.2009 | World

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President Obama has asked the Pentagon's top generals to provide him with more options for troop levels in Afghanistan, two U.S. officials said late F...

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Iraq Troops Sing Karaoke, Join Book Clubs, Rarely Go To War

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

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A new USA Today article has some interesting details about how U.S. troops stationed in Iraq are spending their time these days. Soccer makes the lis...

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Military Report On Iraq Stress Clinic Killing Spree: Soldier Showed Obvious Signs Of Unraveling

AP | REBECCA SANTANA and CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — The soldier at the center of the military's worst soldier-on-soldier violence in six years had gone to four counseling sessions. His r...

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Robert Pape: To Beat The Taliban, Fight From Afar

nytimes.com | ROBERT A. PAPE | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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AS President Obama and his national security team confer this week to consider strategies for Afghanistan, one point seems clear: our current military...

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Inside Afghanistan's "Black Hawk Down"

nytimes.com | THOM SHANKER | Posted 10.03.2009 | World

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The battle of Wanat is being described as the "Black Hawk Down" of Afghanistan, with the 48 American soldiers and 24 Afghan soldiers outnumbered three...

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McChrystal Rejects Calls To Lower Afghan Aims

New York Times | JOHN F. BURNS and ALAN COWELL | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

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The top military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, rejected calls for scaling down military objectives there on Thursday and said ...

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The Forgotten War

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

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No so very long ago, Afghanistan was known as "the forgotten war." But these days, Afghanistan is hard to miss in the headlines. Obama needs to begin talking about our newly-forgotten war: Iraq.

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Joe Klein: The Afghanistan Problem -- Why Are We In Helmand?

TIME | Joe Klein Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009 | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

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In addition to all the other problems we're facing -- the corruption of the Karzai government, the election chaos, the porous Pakistani border -- it h...

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Iraq Troops' PTSD Rate As High As 35 Percent: New Study

physorg.com | Posted 09.15.2009 | World

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The Veterans' Administration should expect a high volume of Iraq veterans seeking treatment of post traumatic stress disorder, with researchers antici...

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Poll: Support For Afghan War At All-Time Low

CNN Politics | Paul Steinhauser | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Support for the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time low, according to a new national poll. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey r...

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Lawmakers May Push Obama For Timetable On Afghanistan

abcnews.go.com | JONATHAN KARL and Z. BYRON WOLF | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Carl Levin's announcement today that he opposes sending more U.S. combat troops to Afghanistan is a big deal, but President Obama's Afghan policy...

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'We're Pinned Down:' 4 U.S. Marines Die In Afghan Ambush

McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

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GANJGAL, Afghanistan -- We walked into a trap, a killing zone of relentless gunfire and rocket barrages from Afghan insurgents hidden in the mountains...

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U.S. Withdraws Forces From Iraq, Prepares To Spend Near $1 Billion Hiring Private Guards

washingtonpost.com | Walter Pincus | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

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As the United States withdraws its combat forces from Iraq, the government is hiring more private guards to protect U.S. installations at a cost that ...

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Chalabi Aide: I Went From White House To Secret U.S. Prisoner

McClatchy | Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. authorities detained a top aide to former Iraqi exile leader and Bush administration ally Ahmad Chalabi last year and accused hi...

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Why Andrew Krepinevich Is Wrong About US Military Strategy

Antiwar.com | Jeff Huber | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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The problem with retired Army light colonel Andrew Krepinevich, the self-described "expert on US military strategy," isn't so much that he says silly ...

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Military Contractors and Our Buck-Stops-Nowhere "Wars"

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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I have less and less respect for the way our civilian leaders lack the courage to tell the truth about our wars.

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Gates And Mullen Counter Afghanistan Frustration

The Hill | Roxana Tiron | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that the U.S. forces must work to "turn around" the security situation in Afgha...

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Rebecca Johnston, Mother Of Four Featured In Obama Infomercial, Is Headed To Boot Camp

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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Rebecca Johnston, the mother of four featured in Barack Obama's 30-minute campaign infomercial last fall, will be shipping off to boot camp next Wedne...

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The Hurt Locker and Iraq

James Denselow | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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Tthe bomb disposal expert in a self-contained suit approaches IEDs like an urban astronaut, symbolic of the otherworldly status that Iraq has achieved.

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Soldier Returning From Iraq Not Allowed To See Her Daughter

New York Times | DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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During the 10 months she was deployed in Iraq, Leydi Mendoza, a 22-year-old specialist in the New Jersey National Guard, did everything she could thin...

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