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Right Web | Pentagon Reined in Cheney's Plans for Iran Strikes

Posted by okami

Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Vice President Dick Cheney last summer for airstrikes against Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) bases by insisting that the administration would have to make clear decisions about how far the United States would go in escalating the conflict with Iran, according to a former George W. Bush administration official.

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Soldiers' Self-Harm: ‘Anything Not to Go Back’ to Iraq

Posted by Jeff from Newsweek

Such cases of self-harm are a "rising trend" that military doctors are watching closely, says Col. Kathy Platoni, an Army Reserve psychologist who has worked with veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. "There are some soldiers who will do almost anything not to go back," she says. Col. Elspeth Ritchie, the Army's top psychologist, agrees that we could see an uptick in intentional injuries as more U.S. soldiers serve long, repeated combat tours

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Foreclosures Four Times Higher in Military Towns

Posted by Jeff from Bloomberg

Foreclosure filings in 10 towns and cities within 10 miles of military facilities, including Norfolk, Virginia, home of the Navy's largest base, rose by an average 217 percent from January through April from a year earlier. Nationally, the rate was 59 percent in the same period, according to RealtyTrac, which tallies bank seizures, auctions and default notices.

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United States Sanctioned Massacre of Korean Civilians

Posted by JXC from Yahoo News!

An official from the Bush Administration recently lectured me on why south Koreans who express anti-American sentiments are misguided and misinformed about the history of our two countries. I actually thought it was a pretty funny statement coming from an administration so clueless about other societies. Here's another reason why we should be more critical of such statements ...

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Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats

Posted by nathalie from New York Times

Religious right is still a force in the military.

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NYT: U.S. military groomed TV analysts

Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

Many U.S. military analysts used as commentators on Iraq by television networks have been groomed by the Pentagon, leaving some feeling they were manipulated to report favorably on the Bush administration, The New York Times said in Sunday editions.

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Pictures that should shame us all reveal the shabby way Britain treats its fallen heroes.

Posted by Jenzaka from Daily Mail

They serve the same Queen, fight the same foe and lay down their lives with equal valour and sacrifice.

But when the fallen heroes of Canada and Britain come home, the welcome is very different.

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