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- On Army Base, a Plea to Give Each Death Its Due
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  Twenty soldiers deployed to Iraq from this Army base were killed in May, a monthly high. That same month, the base announced a change in how it would honor its dead: instead of units holding services after each death, they would be held collectively once a month.
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- Social tensions at the forefront in run-up to Turkish parliamentary elections
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  On Sunday, July 22, Turkey will vote for a new parliament. The fact that these elections are taking place in July and not, as scheduled, in November is a reflection of the profound divisions in Turkish society.
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- Bush's assertion of executive power: The logic of presidential-military dictatorship
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  At President Bush’s July 11 press conference a significant exchange took place that has received very little media attention. Edwin Chen, who writes for Bloomberg.com, asked Bush, “How hard is it for you to conduct the war without popular support? Do you ever have trouble balancing between doing what you think is the right thing and following the will of the majority of the public, which is the essence of democracy?”
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- US Senate blocks rest leave for troops in Iraq | Herald Sun
  Posted by Damianmann from The Advertiser
  US Senate Republicans have blocked a proposal to give American troops in Iraq more rest from battle, as Democrats renewed their attempts to change President George W. Bush's Iraq policy. Now THAT'S supporting the troops like true fascist a-holes are meant to do it.
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- DoD Pulls Soldiers Photo
  Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot
  A tipster was moved by the original version of this Defense Dept. photo, posted on the Pentagon Web site June 13, but was surprised and disappointed to see the photo vanish from the Web site two days later. The image showed a somber-looking Defense Secretary Gates in Germany at the bedside of a US soldier wounded in Iraq.
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- Torturers in Camouflage: The U.S. Military, Ethical Hellhole
  Posted by ptristam from Pierre Tristam
  Almost half of American soldiers in Iraq think torture should be allowed to save the life of another soldier, and 39 percent of Marines and 36 percent of Army soldiers think it should be allowed merely to gather information on insurgents. Barely a third of Marines think civilians should be treated with dignity. That’s your military, America--by the Pentagon’s own accounting. And the mass media buried it or left it unreported.
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- Hearing Sought Over Linguists' Discharge
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  Lawmakers who say the military has kicked out 58 Arabic language experts because they were gay want the Pentagon to explain how it can afford to let the valuable specialists go.
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koroth comments on:
Iraq Contracts Have Cost Taxpayers At Least $85 Billion Since Invasion

Previous reports point out the increase in US forces that would be needed to replace the contractors. They concluded that the contractors saved big bucks. Given that our Military is a Gov bureaucracy at the "contracting for services" level I have no doubt that handling those services in-house would cost lot more more money.

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11:50 am 8/17/08
okami comments on:
Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release | World news | guardian.co.uk

. . .thanks for the link. . .

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7:10 am 7/06/08
okami comments on:
Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release | World news | guardian.co.uk

. . .ah, so. . .but exactly what are the facts?

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7:04 am 7/06/08
asesino comments on:
Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release | World news | guardian.co.uk

The facts don’t lie:

The Real Operation to “Rescue” Ingrid Betancourt and US Mercenaries

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6:10 am 7/06/08
okami comments on:
Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release | World news | guardian.co.uk

If Betancourt’s assertions are true, then the United States is once again responsible (at least in part) for the setting up of false ‘heroic rescues’ and similar phenomena.
We should not forget that intitial reports from Iraq claimed that Kurdish forces captured Saddam Hussein, who then turned him over to Coalition forces.
Neither should we forget the Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch affairs.

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12:13 am 7/06/08
theauthor comments on:
Soldiers' Self-Harm: ‘Anything Not to Go Back’ to Iraq

What about the rising trend of soldiers and Marines who are asking to go back to Iraq after having limbs amputated? Interesting that the article missed this.

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7:49 pm 6/09/08
JXC comments on:
United States Sanctioned Massacre of Korean Civilians
If Korean civilians are murdered in a forest and no one hears them fall, is it really a massacre?
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11:34 am 5/28/08

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