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- Troops Will Have To Do With 1,000 Less Armored Vehicles - ToTheCenter
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  US troops fighting in Iraq will have to do so with at least 1,000 fewer special armored vehicles, says the Pentagon, due to the amount of the time required for shipment. Reuters reports on Wednesday that Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell announced that the Defense Department expected defense contractors to produce 3,900 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles this year. However only 1,500 are expected to make it into the war zone. “If we could get 1,5000 to theater by the end of this
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- Nato 'Must Do More In Afghanistan'
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  Britain's parliament has said Nato must commit more troops and aid to Afghanistan if it is to have a stable democracy.
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- 8 Pakistani soldiers killed in attack
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  MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan - At least eight soldiers were killed Saturday when a suicide attacker struck a military convoy with his explosive-laden vehicle in northwestern Pakistan, the army spokesman said.
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- US admits killing Afghan civilians - Kavkazcenter.com
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  US military officials have admitted civilians were among those killed in a US-led air raid on a village in Afghanistan. Locals say more than 100 people, many of them women and children, died in the US-led attacks on a village close to the frontline in Helmland province. Dur Ali Shah, Gereshk district mayor, said overnight air strikes on Friday targeted Taliban fighters who had moved into the village of Hyderabad after a clash with US-led coalition troops.
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- Think Progress » Rumsfeld Shopping Memoir On Iraq Failures For ‘Large Cash Advance’
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  The ever-shrinking group of Americans who believe invading Iraq was a good idea may soon receive some support, in the form of a memoir by one of its key architects, Donald Rumsfeld. The former defense secretary has the publishing world “abuzz” over the possibility that he may write a book “justifying the military strategy for the war in Iraq.” While a deal has not yet been struck, Mr. Rumsfeld has toured New York publishing houses with an outline of his book in an effort to gau
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- CIA releases papers that set off scandal
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  WASHINGTON - The CIA released hundreds of pages of internal reports Tuesday on assassination plots, secret drug testing and spying on Americans that triggered a scandal in the mid-1970s.
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- Think Progress » Lugar: U.S. Must Reduce Military Presence In Iraq
  Posted by theangryindian from Think Progress
  Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), the senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, tonight announced his support for an immediate shift in Iraq policy, calling on President Bush “to downsize the U.S. military’s role in Iraq and place much more emphasis on diplomatic and economic options.”
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Jeff comments on:
Obama meets with Karzai, pledges aid to Afghanistan

It does worry me a bit that we’re going to be spending billions in Afghanistan once we leave Iraq … but at least it’s a place that in the past HAS HARBORED Al Qaida militant training camps and Osama bin Laden.

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4:13 pm 7/21/08
papadavid comments on:
Military Chief: US Doesn't Have Enough Troops To Send To Afghanistan on The Huffington Post

here’s the video (i think):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExPiBn5j2ro

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1:24 pm 7/04/08
theangryindian comments on:
22-year old with history of domestic abuse reportedly was awarded $300m Pentagon contract to supply

Sounds like any other average decision made by this administration.

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5:02 pm 3/27/08
Jeff comments on:
22-year old with history of domestic abuse reportedly was awarded $300m Pentagon contract to supply

Rep. Henry Waxman says Congress will investigate the contract.
Shouldn’t incompetence be an impeachable offense?

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3:42 pm 3/27/08
Jeff comments on:
22-year old with history of domestic abuse reportedly was awarded $300m Pentagon contract to supply

Here is a link to the original New York Times story:

Supplier Under Scrutiny on Arms for Afghans

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3:40 pm 3/27/08
admin comments on:
National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

this sucks

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8:12 am 3/15/08
chaleur comments on:
Canada and Obama and the world

The power to move hearts and minds around-the-world through words and actions at home is a manifestation of true leadership genius.

It’s part of what gives Barack Obama the potential to be a truly transcending historical leader.

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10:25 am 2/14/08

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