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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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- American military deaths soar as US extends its 'surge' in Iraq
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  Twenty one US soldiers were killed in Iraq between Thursday and Sunday of last week. Their deaths brought the total number of US military deaths since the war began in March of 2003 to 3,422, according to iCasualties.org, an independent web site that tracks military deaths. Other estimates place the death count at near 4,000.
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- Defense Dept. Blocking MySpace, YouTube
  Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post
  From the Put the Genie Back in the Bottle Dept: The Defense Department will begin blocking access "worldwide" to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular Web sites on its computers and networks, according to a memo sent Friday by Gen. B.B. Bell, the U.S. Forces Korea commander. The policy is being implemented to protect information and reduce drag on the department's networks, according to Bell.
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- Gates: Army tours in Iraq to be extended - Conflict in Iraq
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  The injustices served on our armed forces and their families mount and mount ... The Pentagon will lengthen tours of duty for all active-duty Army units in Iraq to 15 months from the current 12 months as the military struggles to supply enough troops for the conflict, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.
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- US jets bomb Iraq's Diwaniya city
  Posted by Jeff from Al Jazeera
  Major combat operations continue in Iraq: The military say the operation is intended to disrupt militia activity and return control of the city. US aircraft have raided Iraq's central city of Diwaniya as clashes between armed groups and security forces continued for a second straight day.
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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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