Tag: afghanistan
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November 07, 2009 09:28 PM EST --
BRITISH public support for the war in Afghanistan is falling, while more than 40 per cent do not understand why British troops are fighting there, a poll released on Remembrance Sunday showed.
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November 07, 2009 07:54 PM EST --
President Obama's Deep Love Of Peace?
By William Blum
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." — . . .
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November 06, 2009 12:05 AM EST --
by Sean McMorris
The white House announced this week that a decision on any troop increases in Afghanistan is still weeks away, but the debate nonetheless rages on over how those . . .
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May 30, 2007 10:40 PM EDT --
I think this is nice.
If you had an immediate family member die in Iraq/Afghanistan/ War Against Terrorism and would like one FREE pencil portrait done from photographs of the loved one, please just . . .
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July 17, 2007 02:10 AM EDT --
In recent months, outsourcing has been elevated to a whole new level. Forget about help desks and computer programmers. The Pentagon is now outsourcing its fighting men. The US army is renting out entire . . .
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June 16, 2008 12:51 PM EDT --
"Mohammad Farooq, the government leader in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province, said around 500 Taliban fighters moved into his district and took over several villages."
This place . . .
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March 26, 2009 03:10 PM EDT --
[afghansforAfghans] Support Us, Shawl-Tea for Parliament Women (see video)
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March 21, 2008 05:39 PM EDT --
Sometimes, the goal of a preacher is (or should be) to get people to think about things which they ordinarily wouldn't think about.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR2008032003021.html . . .
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October 07, 2009 10:46 PM EDT --
Here is the link to the poll. These two questions and answers bother me because I do not understand the reasoning behind the answers.
"By a 65 - 28 percent majority, American voters are willing to . . .
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February 28, 2008 01:21 AM EST --
One of Barrack Obama's main campaign themes - and his major grouse against the Bush Administration - is that the Republicans took their eye off the ball in Afghanistan, by concentrating . . .
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May 19, 2009 08:49 AM EDT --
I saw this a week ago in the Times:
Soldier in pink boxers fought Taliban
FORT WORTH, Texas (UPI) -- A U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan has become a media sensation after he was photographed . . .
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August 23, 2009 04:44 PM EDT --
Less than two months since American forces in Iraq were largely removed from harms’ way, Army General Ray Odierno is now proposing to deploy troops in a northern territory that has been . . .
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August 05, 2006 10:41 PM EDT --
Just a short notice: odds are now in my favor that I will go to Afghanistan in the October-November timeframe (Iran is pretty much a done deal before Afghanistan). I don't think I'll travel from . . .
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September 10, 2006 11:14 PM EDT --
Last week, the defense Department released the obituaries of 24 military personnel killed in and around Iraq.
Through last Friday, 9/8, total U.S. deaths have amounted to 2,662 in and around Iraq, and . . .
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July 15, 2007 02:38 PM EDT --
Saddam was a very bad man. He was responsible for the deaths of a hell of a lot of his own folks. How many? Lots. Seriously, it’s hard to say. Nobody really knows. . . .
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January 10, 2008 11:25 PM EST --
I will not post names to protect the privacy of the families.
An 82nd Airborne soldier died yesterday when the vehicle he was in was attacked by the enemy using an IED.
Another was injured. . . .
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June 06, 2008 11:28 PM EDT --
...was and is: Destroy America! How best to accomplish this goal than to ruin our economy, education, respect for one another and division of our country. 9/11 seems to have . . .
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November 16, 2008 10:09 AM EST --
I was surprised to learn on the CBC this morning that on Wednesday of last week, a group of young women was attacked and acid thrown in their faces. Details are difficult to find (and a bit contradictory): . . .
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January 12, 2009 10:51 PM EST --
Memo to President-Elect Obama:
"Now it is folly to go against men who could not be kept under even if conquered, while failure would leave us in a very different position from that which . . .
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October 04, 2009 05:11 PM EDT --
Because Jon Krakauer’s last book, UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, about Mormon fundamentalism, was so riveting, I preordered his latest book, WHERE MEN WIN GLORY, so I could read it soon after it came . . .
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